The golden I have now gets along with every dog she meets. I attribute a great deal of that to having spent her puppyhood with my co-owner and friend who runs a boarding kennel. Pauli met many strange dogs during that time and she knows how to make friends and get along with all kinds of dogs. In essence, she’s never met a stranger. Of course, she has a very stable temperament, but she also just knows exactly how to get along. I never have to worry when I take her anywhere because she was super socialized.
Proper socialization is *everything*.
You done -good-...:)
From the time Odin was 6 weeks old, he went into stores, riding happily in the cart.
[he wasn’t allowed to be on the floor until his entire course of immunizations were over]
He met everyone and everything with great gladness.
Still haven’t figured out where is “mad love” for kids came from, though...:))
Only twice has he reacted negatively to dogs and both were “only dogs” of the smaller variety who, as I mentioned, simply didn’t “speak dog” any more.
He was clearly bewildered by their absolute lack of *any* response to the usual dog-greeting body language attempts he made and with both of them, he finally growled and backed away from them.
He knew there was ‘something wrong’ with them.
They were both visibly unhappy dogs, trapped in a world between worlds, neither quite ‘human’ or quite ‘dog’..both lost in a social limbo, somewhere between.
Blank eyes with thousand-yard stares.
I privately think of them as The Zombie Dogs, poor things.
Very sad.