How many of you have reactive dogs?

I had a feeling a lot more people than it would appear actually have reactive doggies...I keep noticing that so many of the dogs I actually pass with MY reactive hound are reactive as well and I just got to wondering how many of the forum dogs are the same way.  It's good to know I'm not alone []

Cherokee is. On leash, off leash..doesn't much matter. But for all the scuffles she's had, she's never injured another dog. Guess she's got good bite inhibition.

ORIGINAL: Nikki_Burr

Just out of curiosity - how many of you guys out there have reactive dogs?  In the sense that the dog will react negatively toward a strange dog on a walk.  Just wondering if it's more common than people would think.

I fostered Gaia for 6 or 7 months, she was the queen of reactivity when I got her.  Anything within sight, scent or hearing got a reaction from her.  In April when she went to a forever home, she was reactive only at a distance of about 20 feet for most dogs, 50 feet for anything brindled.

ORIGINAL: mrv

Belgians by nature are reactive.  That alertness is part and parcel of the breed.  So, in answer to your question, I have two reactive dogs.  How they deal with that reactivity is my responsibility to an extent (the other part is hard wired)

Add another reactive one to the Belgians. Lexi will alert to a dog from 500 feet away...ok, perhaps that's an exaggeration. [] But she is pretty reactive, and as the above post says, part of it is just her and part of it is my responsibility to deal with it in an appropriate manner.

Sierra is reactive, out of fear. Though, as has been the case with previous posters, she has never broken the skin of another dog.

When she was 9 months old she was flat out attacked by an off-leash dog, while she was on a tie-out in my front yard (we were out there with her). I'm fairly sure that her fear stems from this.

Willow acts terrible around other dogs. 
I did find Feisty Fido very helpful. 

Kaiser is crazy...very embarassing.
Wyatt wont blink an eyelash at another dog.

Ha! Is Ella reactive to other dogs?
That's like asking if a GSD or a doberman is a guardian breed.

I own the QUEEN of reactive towards other dogs.
To the point of, I have to gear up like I'm going to off leash dog war anytime we go on a walk.

Conrad is slightly leash and barrier reactive on occaision. I'm still trying to figure out what his more specific triggers are. Small dogs he's usually fine with, but with larger dogs if the other dog is being reactive, that will set him off, and every now and then a larger dog just standing there doing nothing will also set him off. But not all the time. There were a couple dogs in our old neighborhood that he just developed an instant dislike for and would react to every time he caught sight of them.

Ixa's on her to way to graduating from the school of "flipping like a fish!" [sm=bravo.gif] Good girl!

Here's a recent post about it:http://forum.dog.com/asp/tm.asp?m=364760&mpage=1&key=񙆑

Teenie is extremely reactive, on and off leash. She will flat out attack any female dog she sees, and she has broken skin, more than once. I work on it, as much as I can, but I mostly just keep her away from female dogs. It stresses me out to the point where I'm hurting her worse than helping her, and it's fairly easy to manage (she weighs all of 11 pounds!).

Emma is a *lot* better than she used to be. She is not visibly reactive, at all, and only reacts when another dog gets in her face, on the leash. She's fine, off leash, and fine, at a distance. She's also fine with dogs she knows.

Emma is also reactive when she's standing on a table, which presents a slight problem. She's a lot better, but still stiffens up, badly, on the table. She bit the clippers, a couple of haircuts ago, and I flipped out on her. I'm sure that made it worse.... She's muzzled, at the vets, even though she hasn't tried to bite in a long time.

Great thread! I was just thinking this the other day, my three couldn't care less about another dog on leash or off. Now cats are another story.

Ace is reactive when he is on leash.  Mainly dogs his size or bigger --  little ones don't seem to bother him.  Off-leash, he gets along with everyone. 

Ash is highly reactive. She goes will make more of a fuss (bark loudly, growl, lunge) when it's another dog than a person now. It used to be reversed and that's how she would react to people. With people now, she will growl first (with dogs, she barks first) and then if they get super close she will start the whole attack mode thing. However, with people, I have learned (through training) to keep that behavior from coming out. I have learned how to get her to focus on me. With dogs, I haven't figured it out yet. She goes into a zone where I cannot reach her for anything . . . yet. []

All of my dogs are fine meeting strange dogs OFF leash, but become reactive on leash. Culley is (amazingly) the only one who is fine with strange dogs on leash.