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Hello all, me and my partner adopted a dog 5 months ago. For some background, she's 2.5 years old, has only ever lived in shelters and with a foster family (family friends of mine) for about 6 months prior to us adopting her. The foster family she lived with had 4 other dogs, and she had no issues with them. She is the only pet we have, we do not have kids. She's great and is generally very well behaved. However, we've noticed that when we bring her around other dogs (so far only our parents dogs) she gets a bit weird when they get "too close" to me. She does it with my partner too, but definitely to a lesser extent. Attached is a video example. She barks and growls pretty loudly, but has never bitten another dog. She only does this inside houses, when we're outside and dogs approach she doesn't care. She'll even play with this same dog, as long as it's outside. Additionally, when we have people over (admittedly not often), she doesn't like when people move in our house? If a guest gets up and walks across the room (any room), she follows them and barks until they stop moving. It's almost like she's trying to put them somewhere and make them stay there. She will also unfortunately nip at calves, not hard according to my sister, a friend, and my partners brother. We have addressed this issue with the trainer and have some strategies (leash indoors, redirecting attention, rewarding for the behavior we want, removing her from the room if she seems too overwhelmed, etc), but she still does it. We've worked with a trainer but so far only one on one, so it's been not possible to replicate the other dogs issue during our sessions (the trainer we see requires a certain number of one on ones before we do group classes, so we can't quite work on this yet with the trainer). We've sent the video to the trainer, but in the meantime, how can we address this behavior? Why are these things only seemingly an issue indoors? submitted by /u/lmc1225 |