my dog is a breedist!

    • Puppy

    my dog is a breedist!

    well, if there are people who are racist, then biscuit is definetly a breedist. here's our situation, as i can best describe it.

    we got bisc when she was about 5 weeks - she was an "add on" on a rescue transport i was doing, and when the person after me on the run dropped out & the 9 dogs stayed at our house overnight until we could rearrange the run, well, biscuit just never left. :) when she was about 1 year old, our neighbors got a german sheperd pup; they have NEVER allowed their dog to play with any of the neighborhood dogs. A lab across the street, 2 goldens down the way, the 3 bichons the other way, my 2 girls, they all play together fine. but the sheperd was always dragged inside whenever any other dogs went to invite her to play. :( now they have a fenced in backyard, so their shep is rarely seen by the other dogs...

    BUT. bisc & zoe & i often go to the dog park, where there are sometimes sheperds. i adore them, and zoe LOVES to run & flirt with sheperds. zoe is an adopted failed seeing eye dog, so when at the kennel she ran around with many many other sheperds. so she loves them & will actively seek them out & play bow & bounce & wiggle & roll around in front of them until they chase her round & round. no problems. biscuit on the other hand dislikes them with all her heart. :( she will do the elvis lip & bark at them & tuck her tail in and run the other way. but it's not that she's scared of them, because she will also charge them from across the park angrilly.

    if i ever thought biscuit would actually do any damage to another dog, i would never ever take her to the park again... but she's almost 3 & she's never put her teeth to anyone and i honestly don't think she has it in her to do so. zoe i know has the potential to be a butthead, but biscuit never. but i'm not sure what to do about her breedism. i have no way of knowing what happened in her first 5 weeks of life, she may have been bullied by a sheperd before getting dumped in that ditch, i don't know...

    what would y'all do?
    • Gold Top Dog
    I don't think you should worry about it.  Dogs pick their own friends, just like we do.  Imagine you are a conservative bank teller, and someone sets you up on a blind date with a punk rocker half your age.  Hmmmm..  You might not hate the person, but it probably isn't someone you want to spend most of your free time with LOL.
    Dogs have different play styles, too, and it may be that she identifies with that.  As long as she isn't being obnoxious, who cares?
    • Puppy
    lol - i might make the same face as biscuit if asked to date a punk rocker half my age.

    she tries not to be obnoxious... however, some of the sheppies are not willing to take "no, i don't want to play with you" for an answer, and they keep pestering her. i try to lead bisc away & get the sheppie to play with zoe, but more often than not they just end up following me & bisc.

    oi... whatcha gonna do.