I'm hoping someone can give me some pointers here. I'm normally very good with dogs and they love me. But we're moving to the country and there is a very large pig hunting type dog over the back who was barking aggresively at my kelpie/Doberman/Shepherd the other day and he is almost as high at the fence itself and could quite easily jump this boundary to get at my dog if he so wanted too or knew there was the possibility. He may not know or jump this, I don't know.
My dog did not show any type of fear while this was happening, she just continued to play with her stick.
SCENARIO. The giant dog (who is very scary) I am even afraid of going near it because if it attacked my dog I'd have to do something and the size is intimidating. Anyhow, this giant dog has a tiny jack russel friend who he protects and when the jack russel barks, giant dog comes along and does the same.
They don't care much about me but when they see my dog giant dog comes right over to the fence and barks with his tail high in the air, ears forward and full frontal view. As aggresive as dogs can get but at the same time I also see wonder in his eyes.
What would you do in this instance, let them get used to each other very slowly? Because my dog will not show any signs of aggression at all until totally intimidated and then she becomes a monster herself but only once things are out of hand in the first place.
My dog did not show any type of fear while this was happening, she just continued to play with her stick.
SCENARIO. The giant dog (who is very scary) I am even afraid of going near it because if it attacked my dog I'd have to do something and the size is intimidating. Anyhow, this giant dog has a tiny jack russel friend who he protects and when the jack russel barks, giant dog comes along and does the same.
They don't care much about me but when they see my dog giant dog comes right over to the fence and barks with his tail high in the air, ears forward and full frontal view. As aggresive as dogs can get but at the same time I also see wonder in his eyes.
What would you do in this instance, let them get used to each other very slowly? Because my dog will not show any signs of aggression at all until totally intimidated and then she becomes a monster herself but only once things are out of hand in the first place.