I was told by an Irishman who lives locally and breeds dogs, coz Georgie flattened his labrador one day when he went to mount him (he took objection to it and so he should!). He then told me his dog only got a good telling off, coz if they wanted to do any real damage they would always go for the back legs, that's how I remember it! Lol! I know nuffink!!!

Well I thought I was going to be in big trouble this morning, coz I was up on the green, watching a big lurcher tear a*sing about with two labradors, and then it made a bee-line for us!!! OMG I thought, this is going to be interesting if he barges up to Zena!!! Anyhoo, by this time Georgie had gone over to it, Zena was still with me coz I told her to wait, then it came hurfing up to us, BUT, instead of barging straight at Zena, it stopped a few feet in front, dropped it's body lower, ears back, then slowly came up to us, nothing happened and they ran off like a bolt of lightening running in circles and playing! It was another youngster, rescued from Scotland, so at least I know we are fine with youngsters both large and small now. It's just those terriers with us I think from what I'm seeing of late.

In my view Adam your logic is very scewed and warped.

I sometimes wonder if you reply to threads, not because you have any idea what you are talking about, or indeed any value to add, but because you just feel the need to be heard?

There is a big difference between teaching incompatible behaviours where behaviours are wholly innapropriate and teaching incompatible behaviours just because one can.

Having re-read the OP by the way, I realise that my earlier replies went of at a tangent somewhat, respoinding to points raised in subsequent posts, rather than the OP..... and I missed a large part of the original point, which was, the incidents occured when the lab was formerly playing with a ball.

I agree with the other posters, that the ball playing is likely to be related and careful management of ball play with other dogs around, should be considered.

Hi Tobydog you haven't given us a lot of information here really and we can't of course see for ourselves Toby's body language at the time of the incidents . What kind of dog does he 'attack', does he look 'aggressive' at the time and is he making a noise .

This said I will make an observation but could be barking up the wrong tree completely .

I know a couple of dogs one a Lab the other a Rhodesian Ridgeback who are not dog aggressive but like to grab some dogs mine included around the neck and even try to pick them up this way. It can look a bit scary to anyone who doesn't know them but they mean no harm and the only harm they do is to cover the other dog in saliva.

I can be walking down the lane and Daisy the RR will see us approaching and stop dead, she will then crouch down and adopt a 'stalking mode' then leap on Chloe and grab her around the neck growling, then bounce away before turning and repeating the actions. Luckily Chloe doesn't mind.

The Lab behaved slightly differently and just paused in whatever she happened to be doing to try to pick my dog up by the neck.


As I said we can't see the body language of your dog but are you sure this is actually agression and not a form of playful behaviour.

In my experience a dog on a short or long lead when confronted with a dog on no lead at all will feel at a disadvantage from the start... no comfort at all for the dog!

my Tupac does as mini says (the picking up by collar) and there is no malice in it whatsoever he is instigating play.