Two incidents with Mia that actually happened a few weeks ago. I've been thinking on them and watching her to see what comes of it and so far nothing has happened since. These happened within 2 days of each other.
#1. We were at Petsmart and there was a PP Chinese Crested a ways down the isle. All dogs were on leashes and the Crestie was probably 5 feet away. My dogs are usually very good and will just stick right by my leg. The crestie was extremely nervous acting (I talked to her owners a bit and they said she's really scared around other dogs). She was just very fearful and hiding. I was looking at harnesses and did not see anything happen to be honest. The crestie was still quite a ways away. Mia very suddenly lunged out at the crestie, which scared the crap out of it but she hit the end of the leash and it bolted so nothing more came of it. I apologized profusely and especially felt bad because they had JUST been talking to me about how their dog was afraid. I felt awful, it was totally out of character for her.
#2. This one was the next day at flyball practice. Everything was going ok. Mia was a bit unsure about the amount of hyped up dogs at class. One of the ladies had an Aussie, BC, and a cav and decided to let her cav come meet Mia. There was little I could do because I didn't know it was coming. The cav ran up to Mia and promptly tried to hump her. She went ballistic at it and we had to pull the two apart. It seemed to be all noise, no marks on either dog, but she was MAD. That was more understandable (for me) since he just rushed her when she wasn't looking and started humping her (and he was 2x her size).
Since then nothing has happened and it's been a month or more. The 1st situation I still haven't figured out what happened. Any thoughts?
#1. We were at Petsmart and there was a PP Chinese Crested a ways down the isle. All dogs were on leashes and the Crestie was probably 5 feet away. My dogs are usually very good and will just stick right by my leg. The crestie was extremely nervous acting (I talked to her owners a bit and they said she's really scared around other dogs). She was just very fearful and hiding. I was looking at harnesses and did not see anything happen to be honest. The crestie was still quite a ways away. Mia very suddenly lunged out at the crestie, which scared the crap out of it but she hit the end of the leash and it bolted so nothing more came of it. I apologized profusely and especially felt bad because they had JUST been talking to me about how their dog was afraid. I felt awful, it was totally out of character for her.
#2. This one was the next day at flyball practice. Everything was going ok. Mia was a bit unsure about the amount of hyped up dogs at class. One of the ladies had an Aussie, BC, and a cav and decided to let her cav come meet Mia. There was little I could do because I didn't know it was coming. The cav ran up to Mia and promptly tried to hump her. She went ballistic at it and we had to pull the two apart. It seemed to be all noise, no marks on either dog, but she was MAD. That was more understandable (for me) since he just rushed her when she wasn't looking and started humping her (and he was 2x her size).
Since then nothing has happened and it's been a month or more. The 1st situation I still haven't figured out what happened. Any thoughts?