Re: [PyrNet-L] dominance/aggression

["Dianne Migas" <jdmigas@email.msn.com>]

>Janice Swenson wrote:
>>
>You are not understanding temperment.  Flying off the handel is NOT
>being a natural guardian. Its called being out of control.  While you
>own dogs are quite others may be more vocal.  I have one on each end of
>the spectrum.
>The guardian behavior of the pyr is established by its desire to be
>alpha and its natrual territorial abilities.  Territorial does not mean
>a dog that flies over a fence to kill the dog down the road, territorial
>does not mean a dog that savagely attacks without cause, protective does
>not mean a dog that growls at every one and snaps.

I am not sure who this reply was directed to....however, I did post that my
bitch Pounded our fence (6ft stockage) hard enough to send the other dog
sailing.    Is that body language?    I feel she acted appropriately, here
is another male dog with his head over my fence (standing on the shed in his
yard) - there's a vulnarable pup (10wks) old in the yard - only a few feet
away.    Should she wait for the dog to get in the yard and see what it does
to the pup?    If I am wrong in reading her behavior then please explain.
She has no problem with this other dog - but did not want him near the
puppy.     Could she have maybe adopted him as one of her own - she had just
come out of season so maybe that's why she was a bit protective?  Maybe she
read his eyes and saw something we as humans cannot see?

Waiting for your feedback.

Thanks
Dianne