Sunday, October 24, 2010

Overloaded and that's why.

So, I shall blog today. What I wanna say is..

I love this dog more each day. You know how would some pet owners, hate their pets if they'd did something wrong? The way I feel is the exact opposite. Happy had been acting rather weird, I wouldn't labeled her as "Aggressive". She's actually too timid to be one. It's totally fine, when she would avoid strangers or friends patting her, that's because she's afraid. But when the whole week, she go after dogs, children and people when we go for walks, or at home. It's really not okay, when she just dash out into the opposite neigbours just to bark at them, she even ran in their house just to bark at two strangers with a kid. The kid screamed and I cried, I couldn't control her. The whole week, I didn't knew what to do. Mum was thinking,maybe she's not getting enough to socialize. But I don't think that's it, she never acts that way when we stopped meeting up with other dogs on sundays. Even thought, she never goes along well with some dogs but she's not really that kind would just start a fight easily or chasing after people. There must be reasons and issues. But when I was asked to fix it, I'm completely stuck. To be honest, I don't know how to fix all these, sometimes I'm just so suck up with school with exams nearby. I know I could fix it later after exams are done, but what if it gets worse next week? What if, she just ran into someone or a dog, but I couldn't stop it? Others say, you shouldn't care what others think. But every time I see people with children and owners walking their dogs, they would react like as if she's some kind of monster. I would take a tighter grip on the lead, how did it end up like this.. I want to go back to how, "She's okay, she just has a really loud bark and a size of a not so tiny dog." 




2 comments:

Kathy Mocharnuk said...

I would think perhaps with the extra stress of exams and maybe a changed routinue could be making things seem temporarily worse....I would not panic, and I would not worry...for one week if it was me I would try to not take her out where she might end up reacting, take her out at a quieter time or to a quieter place where she wont run into the dogs and kids if you can-keep her away from the neighbors for a few days unless she is with you on leash so she can not be naughty....maybe keep her in a quieter area and play ball or something to burn off energy and then work on it next week. It will not get worse if you dont give her a chance to practice that behavior, but gosh with the stress of exams it does not seem like the best time to start really observing and working on what is going on today. Could she be hurting or just have a lot less exercise lately? Good luck with the studying.

Nicole said...

I think maybe Kathy's right...
Maybe she's stressed because you're stressed. George does that sometimes and it freaks me out real bad.
I hope she gets better & you get less stressed.
(I know how you feel, I've got loads of exams now too :/)