My neighbor’s dog bit my puppy in the face. We have a fence, but there are small gaps in it. Puppy stuck his face through the fence and the dog bit him. It drew blood, but nothing too bad.
This is our fault, because shortly after we got our puppy, we noticed the neighbor’s dog was NOT friendly. Snarling, antagonizing our dog, etc. MOST of the time, we have him on a long lead outside (and don’t go out if the dog is already outside, usually it just so happens that they let their dog out when we are already out there). We should do it 100% of the time, I know that now. We screwed up.
We are going to get some fence blockers to fix this issue. Something we should have already done. Again, we screwed up.
Anyways, I am terrified that this is going to ruin my puppy’s relationship with other dogs. My pup was scared, he yelped and cowered and ran away. I don’t want him to be reactive/scared/etc going forward because of this incident.
If anybody could provide some suggestions to help my pup through this, I would really appreciate it.
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