Hello
I was walking my puppy (4 months old) yesterday and we came across another dog walker. His dog came running up to my puppy, I let the lead loose so they can meet. They started sniffing eachother and playing, but his dog became aggressive and pinned down my puppy onto his back and my puppy was yelping. What should I do in this situation? From what I understand you shouldn't pick the puppy up? What I did was pushed the other dog off my puppy (The owner wasn't doing much) and used a treat to distract my puppy and have him follow me away from them. I'm not sure what the best thing to do in this situation is? My puppy seemed really upset afterwards and didn't want to walk anymore.
I was walking my puppy (4 months old) yesterday and we came across another dog walker. His dog came running up to my puppy, I let the lead loose so they can meet. They started sniffing eachother and playing, but his dog became aggressive and pinned down my puppy onto his back and my puppy was yelping. What should I do in this situation? From what I understand you shouldn't pick the puppy up? What I did was pushed the other dog off my puppy (The owner wasn't doing much) and used a treat to distract my puppy and have him follow me away from them. I'm not sure what the best thing to do in this situation is? My puppy seemed really upset afterwards and didn't want to walk anymore.