One Great Snark! (slow motion dog to dog meeting)

This is an incredible video of a Mal who is a wee bit tight in his dog to dog intros. It's at 1/10th speed, but just watch it unfold and look at the other dog's reaction! The small brown dog knows what's going to happen. Too bad the humans are clueless.

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Pets & Animals

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• Leash
• aggression
• dog
• training
• reading
• behavior
• to
• introductions
• Malamute
• slow
• motion

[Devushka2007]

I'm new to this body language in dogs.... why did the Mal dog snarked at the brown dog if this was giving calming signals???

[KCDogguy]

@Devushka2007 - Sometimes despite another dog's good intentions, the other dog may not care and still try to bite. Maybe the little dog was still too close to the Mal and the Mal wanted more space, or the Mal was just in a poor mood. This Mal was untrusting of many dogs and we had to always take the D2D's slow.

[litlebluangel]

@Devushka2007

Am I missing something? Isn't the first dog a husky?

The second is the Malinois.

[KCDogguy]

@litlebluangel The big dog is a Malamute- I guess Mal could mean Malinois also - good catch. He's a smallish Malamute though.

[KCDogguy]

@k9trainer2 If you read the description this was two shelter dogs meeting and we were practicing D2D's. I never set up interactions to be aggressive. We ended up improving the Mal's D2D's. He just made dog friends very slow. Just like people, dogs do not like every dog they meet. Don't judge the Mal on a single interaction with other dogs. It'd be like me judging you based on your uninformed comment.

[k9trainer2]

@KCDogguy why does the brown dog EVER have to meet this MAl?????

owner of brown dog should only have to meet NICE dogs...

the MAl should also NOT have other dogs in his space ...hope the MAl owner has lots of INSURANCE for vet bills...JUST A THOUGHT ...live & let live..

[AmericanPitbulls1]

@KCDogguy I know just saying if neutered at a young age it can prevent some bad behaviors this was most likley this dogs normal everyday route he most likely felt it to be his territory so he attacked but it could also be a problem with him being positivism I had the same prob with my dog and I just SLOWLY would bring him closer and closer to other dogs him being a male I tried to stick with females at first it helps a bit not a ton though but most is male to male aggression.

[KCDogguy]

@AmericanPitbulls1 - Actually he was a neutered male. Being fixed has less to do with it than most would think. You were right, the video shows the impact of tight leashes in D2D introductions. I film the dogs I observe all the time. The best way is to film, slow it down and review it several times. Most of the dog dvd's are too watered down and staged for me. Good feedback.

[AmericanPitbulls1]

@Devushka2007 Cause he is a badly trained and not fixed male which causes allot of dog 2 dog problems and you notice he did not bite until the leash was pulled which caused the bite never pull a dog away in a bad state of mind I suggest some dvds on dog body language but the best thing to do when learning it is go observe local dogs at parks stores anywhere you will learn it on your own very easy

[KCDogguy]

Sometimes despite another dog's good intentions, the other dog may not care and still try to bite. Maybe the little dog was still too close to the Mal and the Mal wanted more space, or the Mal was just in a poor mood. This Mal was untrusting of many dogs and we had to always take the D2D's slow.