A friend's dog sounds like yours! She was a little terrier type, very friendly with all people/children and dogs from being a puppy until about age 2, then she suddenly changed....began snapping at anyone outside the family, even family members occasionally too.
Like you, they used to let their dog run off the leash daily and it was completely fine with other dogs until this point, and since then they haven't been able to take it off the leash AT ALL when out in public places. It snares it's teeth and goes to bite any other dogs it sees.
Seriously no one can work out why this dog suddenly changed, there was no event small or large that happened to cause it.
Even the vet said to be careful with it around children especially because they have children in their home and I guess he was concerned. He told them she has an "aggressive streak" in her that she was born with...or something. But then why wasn't she like that from the start? She only changed after becoming about 2 years old. And does he mean if it's in her, they can't change her?
They keep saying they are going to find some training/socialising classes for her, but she's 4 years old now I think...so isn't it too late?
Someone previously mentioned is the dog exercised much? Why is that relevant here? I just ask because I don't think the dog im referring to gets as much exercise as it should. They walk her for like 30 minutes once a day, and some days she doesn't even get a walk such as if it's raining heavily or they don't feel like it for whatever reason. I'd guess she's walked 4-5 out of 7 days a week typically, plus they don't have a garden for her to get out in either...but it seems like a pretty huge temperament issue to be caused by just not getting enough exercise yk?
Like you, they used to let their dog run off the leash daily and it was completely fine with other dogs until this point, and since then they haven't been able to take it off the leash AT ALL when out in public places. It snares it's teeth and goes to bite any other dogs it sees.
Seriously no one can work out why this dog suddenly changed, there was no event small or large that happened to cause it.
Even the vet said to be careful with it around children especially because they have children in their home and I guess he was concerned. He told them she has an "aggressive streak" in her that she was born with...or something. But then why wasn't she like that from the start? She only changed after becoming about 2 years old. And does he mean if it's in her, they can't change her?
They keep saying they are going to find some training/socialising classes for her, but she's 4 years old now I think...so isn't it too late?
Someone previously mentioned is the dog exercised much? Why is that relevant here? I just ask because I don't think the dog im referring to gets as much exercise as it should. They walk her for like 30 minutes once a day, and some days she doesn't even get a walk such as if it's raining heavily or they don't feel like it for whatever reason. I'd guess she's walked 4-5 out of 7 days a week typically, plus they don't have a garden for her to get out in either...but it seems like a pretty huge temperament issue to be caused by just not getting enough exercise yk?
