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It's inevitable people will touch the dog without my permission and I want him to be okay with that. I don't want him to get startled when it happens and bite someone. My biggest fear is that someone will touch him out of the blue and then he bites them, then I have to put him down.
I don't take him to petsmart or dog parks, this is all happening in my office , with co-workers i can't be mean to.
Laine, I'll tell you right now, and I take my dog with me every day to work, you don't want anyone even tripping over your dog at work. The best thing for you is to absolutely foster an indifference to strangers (co-workers) while there especially since that sounds like what he's comfortable with. The liabilities go a lot further then just having to put your dog down, as bad as that is.
both my GSDs can be clear headed enough that they wont bite without a good reason but the idiots that try and pet them don't know that. I educate them quickly and depending on their acceptance of it I can border on being an ^hole. Well......maybe even cross the border occasionally.
I've rarely let anyone pet them with one or two exceptions. Once was when a mom with a couple of small children (younger then 10) stopped about 10-15 ft in front of me and one little girl turned to her mom and asked her to ask me if she could pet my dogs. With that sort of educated manners I couldn't turn her down. I also know both my dogs like small kids. I put both on a sit and and the kids approached with hands at their sides and did everything exactly as I said.
That made my day and I told the mom so.
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Re: My new pup's behavior
[Re: Laine Lee ]
#373313 - 02/08/2013 11:24 AM 
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