And couldn't have cared less!
Could my dog BE any more laid back? We were on our usual walk and there was a guy with 2 dogs sitting on a bench near the lake. One was off lead, a 3-legged mutt, and the other, a shar pei was on leash. He asked about Indie and I stopped to talk and the dogs were probably 20 feet apart. The shar pei whips out to the end of his zippy line (whatever those retractable things are called!) and wraps his 2 front legs around Indie's neck and starts chomping, growling, snarling, etc. Indie just stood there calmly like "Dude, I could totally take you. Chill." In the maybe 15 seconds it took for both of us owners to realize what was going on and pull them apart, Indie just stood there. Woobie tried to get the heck out of there (same thing he does when there's fights at the dog park).
Luckily, there were no marks or wounds on Indie thanks to his big thick ruff but I was pretty amazed by how mellow he stayed. Even though he plays too rough at the dog park and makes some dogs nervous (I remove him as soon as the signs show up, he doesn't read them so well
) he's pretty calm even in the face of aggression from other dogs. There's very much this attitude of "Yeah, whatever, if I need to, I can deal with you."
Whew.