Well i bring Riot up to visit my parents and their close friends. Hes playing with Jada happily, goes to each person and visits (noses them and wags his tail at them, then playfully nibbles on some of their socks, they laugh and think its cute)..
Anyways, when they are about to go, one decides that it'd be funny to "take one of the dogs with him" so he picks up Crosbie, Cros just sits there like a good like as if hes saying "ok, where are we going
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Then he moves on to Riot, now, Riot having met him before KNOWS him and likes him... yet my mother decides to tell him that "CAREFUL, he may bite you," then continues to say in a higher pitched .. worry sounding voice "DONT! DONT DONT!"..
I'm standing there saying.. "he'll be fine, he wont bite!!" (I can read Riots expressions and his was saying "wait.. whats going on?") All Riot was doing was standing there looking slightly confused as to why he had started to pick him up, then his grandma yell something semi- at him and then be put down again.
it makes me furious how my mom thinks she can portray Riot as a "vicious" dog, when hes completely Not at all! Especially when hes been around these people since he was a puppy.
It just doesn't help his socilization when she meets people while shes with him and tells them that "hes going to bite if you get close" or "hes not friendly with stangers, or kids.."
Riot has gotten MUCH better then what he was. I will admit that he isn't as friendly with kids as he should be(he lets out warning growls when there are big crowds of them swarming around him, its his sign saying I"m scared, back up).
He is getting better though, he now allows a group of about 3 kids around him petting him and asking him to do tricks, which he abiliges.
Each time my mother tells people that hes vicious, they have a biased opinion of him already and then in return are fearful of him. Riot can obviously sense this!! Its just soo frustrating, when i'm trying to work with him around stangers.. and then they are already scared of touching him!
*arg*
ok.. Rant done.. Riot is not allowed around my mother when strangers are near now. i find its disrupting his socilization pattern.
Anyways, when they are about to go, one decides that it'd be funny to "take one of the dogs with him" so he picks up Crosbie, Cros just sits there like a good like as if hes saying "ok, where are we going
"Then he moves on to Riot, now, Riot having met him before KNOWS him and likes him... yet my mother decides to tell him that "CAREFUL, he may bite you," then continues to say in a higher pitched .. worry sounding voice "DONT! DONT DONT!"..
I'm standing there saying.. "he'll be fine, he wont bite!!" (I can read Riots expressions and his was saying "wait.. whats going on?") All Riot was doing was standing there looking slightly confused as to why he had started to pick him up, then his grandma yell something semi- at him and then be put down again.
it makes me furious how my mom thinks she can portray Riot as a "vicious" dog, when hes completely Not at all! Especially when hes been around these people since he was a puppy.
It just doesn't help his socilization when she meets people while shes with him and tells them that "hes going to bite if you get close" or "hes not friendly with stangers, or kids.."
Riot has gotten MUCH better then what he was. I will admit that he isn't as friendly with kids as he should be(he lets out warning growls when there are big crowds of them swarming around him, its his sign saying I"m scared, back up).
He is getting better though, he now allows a group of about 3 kids around him petting him and asking him to do tricks, which he abiliges.
Each time my mother tells people that hes vicious, they have a biased opinion of him already and then in return are fearful of him. Riot can obviously sense this!! Its just soo frustrating, when i'm trying to work with him around stangers.. and then they are already scared of touching him!
*arg*
ok.. Rant done.. Riot is not allowed around my mother when strangers are near now. i find its disrupting his socilization pattern.
