Re: [PyrNet-L] Sniffing.

[Ken McNamara <conmara@oaktree.net>]

Brandy -

One possible explanation is that she smelled like something which the
dog associates with a bad experience.

I'm willing to accept that Pyrs have great discernment - but they are
subject to some of the same problems we have.

When I was 6 I got the flu right after eating pumpkin pie - to this day
pumpkin pie has no appeal.

Anyway, the dogs reaction may not be an indictment of that person.

And, to the original message...

But (like my daughter found out with her bum boyfriend (do all girls go
through a 'bum magnet' phase??)<g>) - when your friends and family say
the person is trouble - and your dog doesn't like him - dump him... (it
still took her a year - but thank goodness she finally did.)

KenMc

Bluebonnet wrote:
> 
> >
> > Trust your pyr before anybody else cause they will
> > never steer you wrong!!!
> >
> >   I generally agree, but I'm still trying to piece
> together Jake's reaction to my sister.  He was afraid
> of her from the minute she walked in the door.  Jake
> isn't afraid of anyone.  My sister came to vist from
> Texas and Jake hunched down and backed away as soon as
> she stepped in the door.  He's never even meet Lori
> before.  He wasn't afraid of Lori's husband, who is
> more of an aggressive personality.  He likes Lori's
> children.  He just didn't want Lori to touch him.
>    Later that day and the next, he kept trying to get
> Lori to chase him.  He'd walk up and give a play bow
> and run away.  If she got close to him though, we got
> the same, head ducking and backing up.  He seemed to
> want her to play but was afraid of her touching him.
> What's up with that?  It was the strangest reaction
> I've ever seen from Jake.
>                            Brandy
>