Dog Attack

New thing today, two dogs attacked our dog. Everything's ok, no physical damage, just a scare and a lucky miss. Our dog is a little dog, stray Lhasa Apso Shitzu mix and a sweet friendly one. So we have relatives who have these 13 and 7 year old pit bull mixes. They're nice dogs overall. I like them. They're friendly with humans but don't get exercise and are not sociable or friendly with other dogs. We've never had the dogs meet, as we know it wouldn't be good, as the pit bull mixes aren't friendly. But a relative today wanted to give it a shot and try out to see if they could be sociable and get them friendly and used to each other. With the holidays it would be nice to have all our dogs get along and be able to hang out together.

We were very cautious and careful, but alas, the mixes were still aggressive and lunged at our dog. They were trying to be social, but I think they just couldn't figure out this was a friendly situation. I think not enough social opportunities at all for these dogs. They sniffed aggressively, were very excited and possibly thought it was a snack or game or I don't know, just not really being calm or friendly. Husband and I go by Cesar Milan guides, and these were nice dogs, but it was definitely a situation where the human owner didn't follow dog psychology or understand that their dogs were not being calm or sociable, but were excited and mildly aggressive.

Good thing we stayed on our toes and stayed calm, but basically, no dice. It's just irritating when someone thinks their dogs can be friendly, but isn't honest with themselves to realize their dogs can't be sociable with other dogs. In order to test the sociability theory it put our dog in danger. Ugh!!! There were two close calls, and it could have been quite disastrous if one of the bigger dogs got a good lock or bite on our dog. Luckily our little one is quick and smart and avoided any damage. Relative has offered to lock their dogs up in the garage next time if we want to bring our dog over. That was really nice, but we will see? Might just be better to keep our little one safe at home. That was a first, to have dogs attack our dog, and I'm trying to stay positive but it was upsetting. But alas, let it go, live and learn.