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Poor puppy!

Make sure he learns that other dogs are his friends as soon as you can.

We had a bad experience our very first training class. We walked in and they told us we could go outside to take a potty break before class. So out we walked with our 4 month old puppy who we'd had for just a couple days (before that, bad life!) He walked out sniffing the ground and wagging his tail. There was a 2 year old dalamation outside already, Doc wanted to go up and see him, and before we knew what had happened the dalmation growled, lunged, and grabbed Doc. From showing no signs of aggression to monster. Doc pulled out of his collar and got away, which is good because my fiance' who is 280 and 6'-4" was about kick the dalmation away from Doc.

But after that the classes were hard the first few times, he was scared of every other dog and jumped when they sniffed his butt. He is much better now but it took about a month for him to foget and he was not in his imprinting period.

(The dalmation stayed in the class but was seperated by a gate from the other dogs and they gave him a gentel leader, his owners were very suprised at his behavior. He was a new rescue and had not been around many other dogs.)