This is a "problem" for Max... he thinks he is the size of a Yorkie, when in reality he is about 30kg of Boxer puppy...

We have guests coming over Christmas who have never met him, and I've warned them not to wear really expensive clothes, as Max will:
a) Try and climb on their knees
b) Try and lick any part of exposed skin on them (including ears etc)
c) Lean his head on any part he can reach and quietly slobber/drool on it. You only notice this when you feel the damp patch...

As much as I am trying to prepare our guests, I think they might think that Max is still a "puppy" in terms of size, i.e. small!

We are trying to complete, erm, think its called 'good citezenship training'.

Our trainer told us it is our duty to ensure Roxy is overly well behaved due to peoples negative perceptions and I totally agree with him. Even as a pup we had people avoiding us. But I hope when we walk past and she is at a heel or she has a good recall I think people percerptions may change (even if we just change one persons mind its good enough for me!)

Makes me laugh when people get scared. Roxy has to be the softest lump i know

Roxy is exactly the same!

you will pass no problems, I didi the KC, good citizen when kaos and tegan were 7 months 9 months old at SKC I missed kaos's class and wanted to give him a run in the ring to see how he would be it was his first show.
someone told me you could just enter on the day so I thought why not and he passed without prior training its just testing control and seeing if your dog has manners, duno how my two managed I also did it in August with oscar (marks boxer) slightly more of a challange (again just did it on the spur of the moment) but with a bit of effort he passed, best of luck will kep my fingers crossed for you both X shona X

i have a husky and people avoid us when we are out because she looks like a wolf, apparently!! kai is softer than cotton wool!!!

when i took my girlfriends mums rottweiler out again people avoided us. there are some stereotypes that you just cant avoid

saying that being able to do a whole walk with everybody avoiding you sure beats being stopped every 10 steps to answer questions

I know where your comeing from with this, we get it often, some people go to great lengths to avoid passing my dogs, I rarely walk more than two at a time, but when I have oh with me we do occasionaly have up to 4 or 5 and it really is not worth it folk go off on one, you would think it was a radioactive bomb on the lead not a dog

Now I'm the opposite. I've been muzzling Rupe for short walks this week as he needs to get used to wearing it for class. I'd rather be stopped every 10 steps by people asking to pet him than have people pick their kids up and run across the road because he's muzzled (which doesn't actually make sense to me but....) I get stopped a lot when he's not muzzled, if I'm in a hurry then Rupe stays home

More info on the bite inhibition training?

I love Dobes and am not in the least bit scared of them, but the point about having a well trained Dobe is a good one. A few years ago I saw a young woman walking her two Dobermans. They were sleek, well muscled and absolutely stunning. They were running together, playing, and I could see other people looking slightly worried. This lady whistled once and her dogs stopped what they were doing, turned and ran straight back to her and sat in front of her. It looked amazing! Keep up the good work.