Liesje
Posted : 9/19/2008 8:40:42 PM
This could be total nonsense, but last summer I was at an agility show and a woman walked her flat coated retriever past an ex-pen of other dogs. One of the dogs in the pen started growling, barking, and lunging at the retriever. The dog's owner was mortified, she corrected the dog, apologized to the other woman, and said her dog had never acted that way before. I heard the retriever's owner say "It's OK, we're using to it. My dog sometimes has seizures and I think other dogs can sense he is not healthy because often he is the victim of unprovoked attack." I have no idea if there's any weight to that theory, that perhaps other dogs have a keener sense of when another dog has a weakness and they lash out.