Tried taking my girl out to burn some energy today. I tried doing some damage control by driving 40 minutes away to a secluded park during crappy weather with the hopes that there wouldn’t be any other dogs there.
We got about 20-30 minutes of walking/running and sniffing around in before a man showed up with his beagle. My girl is a 90+ pound Newfoundland “puppy” (she’s about a year and a half old) and as usual, she went bananas when she spotted that little guy. His owner was a very nice older man who let Daisy jump on him and gave her pats, and let her sniff/“pat” (aka...whacking him gently with her big paws) his dog (who snarled a bit but tolerated it—he was 9 years old and didn’t have a lot of patience for puppy behavior/overly excited dogs). Daisy had a meltdown when I tried to take her back to the car... dragged me around on the ground a bit and started barking. I couldn’t do much to avoid the interaction because we were in an open field :/ the man was really nice and actually apologized (which I told him there was no need for—we all have a right to be there and his dog was well behaved) and took his dog and left to another part of the park. Unfortunately though I’m healing from a hip injury and getting dragged on the ground aggravated my hip quite a bit so I decided to just go home. She’s sleeping on the couch now though so hopefully she got enough energy out.