88 days ago by ChowAmbassadors | 33 views | 1 barks

Sid V.. Chow Ambassador..

It was a warm Saturday morning, too warm for hiking or running or anything to exert myself so I just lounged around in the shady part of the dog park.  Just as my Momma and I were deciding to leave, a lady walked up to the gate with 3 huge labs.  The lady asks my Momma “Is your dog OK?”  My Momma says “Sid is great!” So the lady brings in her 3 labs.  One of the labs started to growl at me so his Momma kept him on his leash.  The other 2 sniffed me a little.  I was scared but I let them walk up to me and check me out.  Five minutes pass and the lab on the leash starts to relax so his Momma thought it would be OK to let him off his leash.  He didn’t growl at me and I let him sniff me and he let me sniff him.  The labs Momma asks my Momma if we come here a lot and my Momma says “every day and twice on Saturday and Sunday”..  The labs Momma said she won’t come when there are a lot of dogs in the park and the only reason she came in this time was that I looked like I was a well behaved dog.  Of course I am, I don’t rush the gate, I don’t growl or bark, I don’t run up to other dogs and pounce on them as soon as they walk through the gate.  There are a lot of Mom’s and Dad’s out in my area that will not bring their dogs into the park but if it’s just me they will.  My Momma hears, all the time, “Oh my dog won’t bite”..  My Momma says to them “All dogs will bite, you just have to learn how to READ your dogs body language and learn how to protect them from stressful situations”..  It’s good to be a Chow Ambassador.

Sid V.