woosydiver

Thanks for your comments, appreciated. It's funny, you both said that you thought Fudge was stressed but both my wife & I thought she was protecting us as she definitely kept herself between us & the other dogs, she didn't try to hide away at all. The episodes were quite brief and all was well immediately after so we were all happy. BTW, the beach was Rowlands Reserve, Bayview. A bit of a drive for us but we enjoy the place due to the beach and there's always lots of other dogs. But why the @@@@ can't people pick up their dogs poo, GRRRR.

Sorry I've not been around for a while, been enjoying dog life :-) Just a quick question to gather opinions on a recent behavior. Fudge is an 18mth old Cocker, she seems to be very happy and content. Loves being with my wife & I and meeting people and other dogs. We have recently been going to an off-leash beach where she meets other dogs but doesn't tend to go too far from us. At the weekend she seemed to be intolerant of 2 other dogs who to me looked like they just wanted to play, they kept coming up & play bowing. Yet Fudge barked and chased them away, coming back to our feet and looking up at us. We guess this was some sort of possessive behavior & she was defending the pack. The 2 dogs were quite separate & at separate times, i.e. it wasn't the 2 dogs coming at the same time. There were many other dogs on the beach which we didn't have the same issue with. Looking for opinions as we don't want this to get any worse. We thought that maybe we had inadvertently showed some signs of fear of those dogs which Fudge had incorrectly picked up on. We thought that if we pet other dogs more it would show Fudge there's no problem with other dogs coming to us. Thanks.

I have one. It didn't quite fit right, so I emailed the company for help [i was fitting it out of normal business hours], received a phone call the next day, they sent me a modified component the day after. Excellent service. I'm very happy with it, it certainly serves it's purpose. You do have to consider how to secure the sliding door when fitted because you lose the use of the lock. I have heavy duty sliding door locks top & bottom [1 type is included with the panel]. We bought white to match our door, it looks good. The price did vary quite a bit between different sellers, Bunnings wasn't the cheapest. Edit: It's great for me because I have 2 sliding doors side by side, one in regular use, the other has the PIM door permanently in-situ with the locks hard set. I do think it would be difficult to use the PIM in a door you use regularly because it restricts the available opening & be extra hassle to lock/unlock.

This thread has great timing, I was just about to post the same question. The yelping only worked a short time. Me barking at her didn't work unless I was too aggressive & upset her [i only did it the once] And just this morning I thought "this is enough, I'll have a look on the DOL forum" I just tried walking away & ignoring her, it seemed to work after a couple of times, the 3rd time she came back to me she quietly snuggled up [nice] I'll be continueing this line of training. Thanks for the thread & replies. Steve