Getting Attacked By Off-leash Dogs

[marourin]

Hi, so there's a park right next to where I live where I take my dog, Candy, for her walks. Usually it's great however, as you know this being Taiwan, everyone has their dogs off-leash here. I keep Candy on a leash, walk her close by me in a proper heel and she'll be minding her own business when dogs will charge from up to half the park away to attack her. Usually it's just to snap at her and dart away, but today one of them bit her face. Most of the time I'll stomp towards the charging dog and chase it off with a rough "Hey!" but sometimes they'll bumrush us from behind a bush. Even if I can chase them off, I'm afraid this is starting to make Candy aggressive towards other dogs and I feel horrible when she cowers behind me, ruining what is usually the best part of her day. Lately, she's started lunging at other dogs and barking in a really deep, menacing manner. Can someone help me?

ps: Candy is a spayed, 1 yo German Shepherd female.

[Kea]

where do you live? There must be other alternatives to that particular spot. Perhaps a school-most of them let people in to run/walk around the track.

I'd get my dog away from the poorly trained and aggressive dogs pronto.

Good luck.

[sandman]

Let her off the leash. She's tied up and shitting buckets because the leash stops her from circling and butt-sniffing, which is dog socializing. This is the Cliff notes version. Ask Stray Dog for the full uncensored version.

[marourin]

where do you live? There must be other alternatives to that particular spot. Perhaps a school-most of them let people in to run/walk around the track.

I'd get my dog away from the poorly trained and aggressive dogs pronto.

Good luck.

I live in Puxin and there's stray dogs over every available plot of land here. I take her hiking up the local mountain here and we have to run a gauntlet of two or thee packs just to get there.

[sandman]

where do you live? There must be other alternatives to that particular spot. Perhaps a school-most of them let people in to run/walk around the track.

I'd get my dog away from the poorly trained and aggressive dogs pronto.

Good luck.

I live in Puxin and there's stray dogs over every available plot of land here. I take her hiking up the local mountain here and we have to run a gauntlet of two or thee packs just to get there.

My dog is very large and a pussy. On the leash, he gets constant hassle. Off-leash, he takes care of himself.

[marourin]

Let her off the leash. She's tied up and shitting buckets because the leash stops her from circling and butt-sniffing, which is dog socializing. This is the Cliff notes version. Ask Stray Dog for the full uncensored version.

I let her socialize with dogs who aren't bumrushing us (butt-sniffing, circling and all) and she's fine with them. She even has a few buddies in the park that I let her play with as well but some dogs literally charge over and start attacking while we're just doing laps around the park. Candy cowers behind me and starts trying to get away from these dogs by frantically dragging us away from them though they'll keep on coming back even after I run them off. I've let Candy off-leash with friendly dogs and when the owners show up with their aggressive dogs, they run Candy off. She only recently outgrew her submissive peeing phase, I don't know if this affects her getting signled out by these dogs or not. Do you think the next time we get bumrushed, I should just unclip her leash?

[marourin]

where do you live? There must be other alternatives to that particular spot. Perhaps a school-most of them let people in to run/walk around the track.

I'd get my dog away from the poorly trained and aggressive dogs pronto.

Good luck.

I live in Puxin and there's stray dogs over every available plot of land here. I take her hiking up the local mountain here and we have to run a gauntlet of two or thee packs just to get there.

My dog is very large and a pussy. On the leash, he gets constant hassle. Off-leash, he takes care of himself.

Okay, I'll try letting her off-leash the next time we get bumrushed and see how that works. Thanks for your advice!

[sandman]

Let her off the leash. She's tied up and shitting buckets because the leash stops her from circling and butt-sniffing, which is dog socializing. This is the Cliff notes version. Ask Stray Dog for the full uncensored version.

I let her socialize with dogs who aren't bumrushing us (butt-sniffing, circling and all) and she's fine with them. She even has a few buddies in the park that I let her play with as well but some dogs literally charge over and start attacking while we're just doing laps around the park. Candy cowers behind me and starts trying to get away from these dogs by frantically dragging us away from them though they'll keep on coming back even after I run them off. I've let Candy off-leash with friendly dogs and when the owners show up with their aggressive dogs, they run Candy off. She only recently outgrew her submissive peeing phase, I don't know if this affects her getting signled out by these dogs or not. Do you think the next time we get bumrushed, I should just unclip her leash?

I dunno. What I do know is that a message to Stray Dog and maybe a meeting with him will have your problem solved in probably 15 minutes. Not joking. He knows what he's doing. It is uncanny.

[Kea]

OK< I know you've seen this. Hope that helps, editing now for privacy.