Charging Woes

[JimmyDean]

Hello: I just signed up with your board after being referred to it by a friend. Lucky too, because I had an incident yesterday with Razer that scared the crap out of me.

While in the garage, with the garage door open, I had Razer off leash. I usually keep him tied on his chain (long, flexible) when we're outside because I don't want him wandering off (he loves to roam and sniff everything in sight). Since it was such a miserable day yesterday rain wise, and I wasn't going to be too long in the garage, I decided I'd let him be 'free'. Well, all of a sudden he darted out of the garage, started barking intensely and jumping up at the paper boy (some background--this kid delivers to our neighbors and then crosses our yard to get to the next one--Razer has never liked him and always goes crazy, barking and jumping at the window in the house when the kid crosses our yard) In fact, had I not yelled "NO!!"at him to stop, I'm not sure what he would have done to this kid. It looked to me like he was trying to nip at the kid's hand. The kid gave him a grouchy look, swung his hand at Razer to let go and walked away. I ran over to Razer, reprimanded him and then by the time I turned around, the kid was gone. I never had a chance to see where he went or if he was ok. I just couldn't believe it. Razer will be 2 in another month and he's 99.9999% friendly to everyone he sees. He is excitable though and will bark at people if we're outside. This always means the same thing though: hey, get over here, I want to see you and lick you. He simply thinks everyone is his friend. I guess this is why I was so floored when he wasn't friendly to this kid.

Please help, since I don't want to be accused of having a dangerous dog, especially when I know this is so out of character for him. Our neighborhood, being somewhat snotty, has already taken a negative view of my wife and I for having a rotty. I certainly don't want to confirm their ignorant views.

Thanks for the advice in advance.

JimmyD

[Justice]

JimmyDean, I am moving your Topic into our Training Forum, where I believe you will get a better response.

Justice