Zara Doesn't Understand Aggression...

[Katie (and Zara the Husky)]

I remember reading a thread about this but haven't been able to find it.

Our husky Zara is 8 months old. She's doing well with training so far, and has been socialised mainly with bigger dogs because of the farming community we live in. She spends time with Sheep dogs like kelpies, border collies, an Australian shepherd and her bestie, a groodle called Jasper.

Recently we've noticed she seems not to understand when other dogs are telling her they've had enough. She keeps going back for more, and is a very vocal dog too which older dogs don't like much at all! The dogs that she spends the most time with are high energy dogs and I suppose they can always keep up. We're going to do some one-to-one work with out trainer and some of her dogs who are very assertive to teach Zara when it's time to back off and settle, but I'm just wondering if anyone else has had this issue? I'm also worried about having her around smaller dogs as she doesn't mean to be rough and there's not an aggressive bone in her body but her 'bouncy' play moves and boundless energy make me a bit anxious.

If anyone has any tips to help her it would be much appreciated! We're training her to drop and me gentle when we say 'baby', so that when she is around small dogs and children she will know what to do... But there is a big difference between training and real life situations!

[Sarah]

Ah tough one

Training will help I think but the other dogs putting her in her place will also help

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[Katie (and Zara the Husky)]

Yes, our trainer has a bull mastif who won't fight but will certainly assert herself, we're going to do some training with her. Not that I want Zara to get hurt, but she obviously needs a nip to understand when enough is enough. I feel like a bad parent that she hasn't learnt this already, but at least it's not the opposite with her being aggressive to other dogs I suppose!