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Hi there,
I have an 11 month old Vizsla, Maisie, she is the first Vizsla we have owned. She will be 1 on 3rd March.
She is a very sweet dog, extremely loyal and loving and has never snapped or shown any aggression towards myself of my husband. We also have a 2 year old Dalmation, Dylan whom we have had from a puppy and a cat. Maisie and Dylan are best of friends and rarely fall out. However, I am becoming a little concerned about a few aspects of her behaviour. She's not aggressive towards other dogs, usually, she merely gives them a wide birth and would rather run back to me than go and investigate and say hello, which is strange, because from being 14 weeks old we have socilaised her in the exact same way we did Dylan and he loves other dogs. We generally see the same dogs when we go for walks, some of them she 'likes' some of them she doesn't and just avoids, but any new dogs she's just not interested! However, whilst out walking this morning, we saw a very fussy cocker puppy and Maisie was really nasty and aggressive towards the pup. She has behaved the same towards this puppy before, which worried me and I don't like to see her behave like this. I am totally unsure what to do or whether this means anything!?
The other issue that is bothering me is that she is obsessed with our cat, Tina. I know that to some extent this is natural to her, the cat is a little fluffy animal that she wants to point and hunt, but the cat was there when Maisie arrived and I would have thought she would be used to her by now. Lucky for Maisie that the cat is quite placid and has never hurt her, because she does intimidate the her quite often and does get the odd slap from Tina. In addition and, probably the thing that concerns me the most is, when letting the cat into the house, if Maisie is also outside, she will stand behind the cat as I'm letting her in and snap at the her as she is coming through the door. A couple of times she's nearly bitten the cat's tail!
If anyone has had similar experience and found a remedy or if anyone has any general advice I would be very grateful.
I have an 11 month old Vizsla, Maisie, she is the first Vizsla we have owned. She will be 1 on 3rd March.
She is a very sweet dog, extremely loyal and loving and has never snapped or shown any aggression towards myself of my husband. We also have a 2 year old Dalmation, Dylan whom we have had from a puppy and a cat. Maisie and Dylan are best of friends and rarely fall out. However, I am becoming a little concerned about a few aspects of her behaviour. She's not aggressive towards other dogs, usually, she merely gives them a wide birth and would rather run back to me than go and investigate and say hello, which is strange, because from being 14 weeks old we have socilaised her in the exact same way we did Dylan and he loves other dogs. We generally see the same dogs when we go for walks, some of them she 'likes' some of them she doesn't and just avoids, but any new dogs she's just not interested! However, whilst out walking this morning, we saw a very fussy cocker puppy and Maisie was really nasty and aggressive towards the pup. She has behaved the same towards this puppy before, which worried me and I don't like to see her behave like this. I am totally unsure what to do or whether this means anything!?
The other issue that is bothering me is that she is obsessed with our cat, Tina. I know that to some extent this is natural to her, the cat is a little fluffy animal that she wants to point and hunt, but the cat was there when Maisie arrived and I would have thought she would be used to her by now. Lucky for Maisie that the cat is quite placid and has never hurt her, because she does intimidate the her quite often and does get the odd slap from Tina. In addition and, probably the thing that concerns me the most is, when letting the cat into the house, if Maisie is also outside, she will stand behind the cat as I'm letting her in and snap at the her as she is coming through the door. A couple of times she's nearly bitten the cat's tail!
If anyone has had similar experience and found a remedy or if anyone has any general advice I would be very grateful.