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["Juliana Sprister" <jsprister@hotmail.com>]

I apologize if I am doing this wrong, I am new to the group.  My husband and 
I fell in love with the Pyr breed this summer.  After a few months of 
research on the breed we finally purchased a little puppy and named him 
George.  We currently live in an apartment but are going to be buying a new 
home in the next 6 months so he gets tons of walks and insists that we do 
not jog in the mornings more then 2 blocks.  So he is 8 months now and we 
have taken him and our Shih-tzu Keefer with us everywhere we go.  We do some 
traveling and they go right with us.  He has been in puppy training and is 
now in beginning training with Keefer.  We took him for his longest trip 
this last week which was 12 hours in the car this last week.  He started to 
show a little agression.  I didn't think it is much to worry about but I 
want to make sure we are doing everything right for him and training him to 
be a good member of society :).  I know the breed barks, and I have been 
expecting him to start using his voice more and more but on this trip he was 
growling and barking at everything in site and everyone.  Once we told him 
it was ok when he met new people and had him sit he was fine and was as 
lovey as can be... but his initial reaction was to growl and bark.  When we 
got to my sister-in-laws, she has a Roughtie (sorry about the spelling) and 
George growled at him.  We took him down and layed on top of him and he 
stopped but I have been told not to take him down and lie on top of him to 
show dominance any more because he can turn on me.  He is such a gentle 
giant with me and my husband.  Am I over reacting or am I doing something 
wrong with training?  Any advice or anything is welcome.

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