Therapy dogs can not be leash reactive - they need to be level headed and safe at all times. You never know when there will be another dog when you go on a visit and you can't have a dog lunging and growling at another in the hallway of a senior center, or school, or whatever the facility is.
Lori, I know you already know that, I am just stating it for the folks that may be reading this and don't know what it takes to be a therapy dog.
Thanks Kelly, yes, I do know that, and that's why I was asking the question. I don't like that he does that in a non-therapy dog situation, but it would definitely get us flunked out of therapy dog class! I will check out the DVD and start working on alternate behaviors. We've only had him about 2 1/2 months so we're just getting to know his 'quirks'. He literally doesn't do anything wrong expect this one thing - makes me wonder if he's been on the receiving end of an aggressive dog in his past - he was picked up off the street when he was 1 1/2 yrs, adopted by a young man whom kept him for 2 yrs and then had to put him up for adoption when he got shipped overseas for the military. So who knows what his life was like for his first 3+ years.
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Re: Dog aggression or not?
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