Yesterday afternoon, I took Skye to the Silver/Gold Award training and she had a ball. At the end of it, we went all for a little walk together and she played with some dogs (well, getting them all to chase after her) and she went off chasing birds. She was shattered after that.
After the classes, I went to Karen to pick up my meat. One of the dogs there (GSD) kept following Skye and sort of looming over her and cornering her (especially as there were also many other dogs and not that much space indoors) and Skye kept telling her off, more and more aggressively as it fell on deaf ears... Eventually we separated them and Skye then played with a little toller puppy, all teeth, but nicely.
Today I took her to agility training with Jesse, and Skye was very defensive and sometimes aggressive to most of the dogs there and only approaching very cautiously. This could be because she was tied up, but she had never done this before there! In fact she hadn't been aggressive to any dogs before other than play very roughly occasionally with Flash (which I stop immediately). So I am now wondering whether yesterday's experience left her more scared than I thought... I'll see how she does on walks and I will try to get a little socialisation group together perhaps after the Silver/Gold Award course...
I hope I can stop this in its tracks as I really, really do not want to deal with more dog aggression issues!
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