I have a 1 year old Boston Terrier who since getting him as a puppy has more or less never been scared of anything — most of the time for the better but also sometimes for the worse.
He loves playing with other dogs. However something with him is I have never seen him start a fight, but I've also never seen him end/back out of one either.
An example of this is my neighbor's dog and him love playing together — specifically tug. Every once in a while however, my neighbor's dog can become possessive of the toy and will start going for my dog. Rather than backing away, my dog engages in the fight and even after my neighbor grabs their dog to create some distance, my dog will continue going for him.
Today at the dog park, a husky came up to my dog and quite quickly started applying some aggressive and dominant behavior on my dog and quickly this turned into a fight. Thankfully the husky's owner was aware of the situation and started pulling the husky away to create space. However my dog even with more space went right back up to the husky to continue the fight.
This was a rather stressful situation as since my dog is so much smaller, it was incredibly hard to gain control of him as he was more or less tucked underneath the husky (my dog is only 13lbs).
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In short, when it comes to it, it seems like my dog has no fight or flight response, just a fight response. Is there anything we can do to work on his response to situations like this – to prevent him from making the choice to fight and help him make the choice of flight?
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