[CorgiMum]

Originally Posted by glencorgi

Looking at the pictures and the body language of the dogs, I'd say you were very lucky that the playdate didn't end up with a trip to the vet's. The GSDXRottie mix is not inviting him to play, that is an attack mode look in her eye. What Milo is doing right in that instance is not looking at her and diverting his gaze to the side. He's not issuing a challenge to her.


***My very first thougts too.***CorgiMum



It won't get better and he'll remember this "playdate." Next time he goes in, he'll be loaded for bear as in the last photo, hackles up, teeth bared and now issuing the challange to fight and the mix will be more than happy to oblige him.


***Dylan has 'learned' to react this way because of too many negative encounters with large dogs and inexperienced/thoughtless dog owners. Not an easy problem to undo, I certainly would not encourage such situations.***CorgiMum



Milo is not necessarily anti-dog, he just maybe doesn't like big dogs and with experiences like this one, who could blame him? He and the Pug seem much more compatible. Why does he need playdates? Corgis are not pack animals in the same sense as hounds are - like Beagles or Foxhounds for example. His pack is the humans he lives with and that's all he needs.

***I agree, the 'home pack' seems more than enough for most of the corgis that I have met. To mine anyways, lose dogs/cats/etc need to ne herded up if there is to me any movement involved on their part.***CorgiMUm


Debbie

***PS. I still have problems wiht the quotes.*** CorgiMum