emmanuelbiny
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Our 5 year old Husky girl has recently developed a strong reactivity to certain dogs very sporadically at the dog park she has played in for years now. The trigger seems to be if a new dog comes into the dog park and in passing growls at her. Sometimes she growls first too— and this is new. She has on occasion cone unglued and we need to step in immediately to calm her and de-escalate. It started when an “old friend”, a female pup who ours always happily played with became aggressive with her, growling and snapping. We have no idea what set that dog off, but her owner and my husband had to break up the fight that ensued. I think this may have traumatized our girl, and now she will occasionally growl at a new dog as he/she starts to enter the dog park. We always correct it ( step in and tell her no, or leash her and take her to a bench with us) and make sure she is calm before allowing her to interact. This seems to work. But I am concerned with this out of the blue, hair trigger response that I had never seen in this 5 year old. Would love any advice or thoughts. She enjoys almost all of the dogs at our dog park, but I need to figure out how to undo whatever happened to create this trigger ( which is not predictable at all) so we can eliminate this seemingly random and thankfully infrequent aggression. She used to feel very safe there, but now I don’t feel as safe with her behavior, which had never been an issue at all until just now.