My dog doesn't have a problem with other dogs, in fact she loves em' she's always excited to meet them. When they try to wrestle though or move too fast or whatever she seems to freak out, she doesn't bite them or anything but tries to run away, sometimes she hides behind me. Usually the owner will take notice and tell their dog to back off if they're being too much, if it's just a dog being a dog though I try to walk away from her to not reinforce this anti social behavior, or to not end up coddling her.
She's never responded aggressively, except for one time but that was after a stockier dog kinda ran her over and freaked her out when she was younger, some dogs came up to her after that and she started baring her teeth while trying to hide and at that point I took her out of the dog park to walk so she could relax. We came back about half an hour later and she was noticeably more timid but she had no resentment towards dogs, she played like a normal dog but only with smaller breeds while shying away from the bigger pups.
I'm guessing that's the root cause, so how can I go about safely building her confidence back up? She can't play with the small breeds forever, the world is full of other dogs! And I'd like to see her run and play happily
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