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Originally Posted by J-bo09
At this point you might be stuck with the cliche "you can't teach an old dog new tricks"
The most formative years in a dogs life are between 3 -12 months. Did you allow your dog off-leash time in the park? Were you quick to pull the dog back and keep it on a short leash?
Not saying you raised your dog at all wrong, but I find that dogs are very interested in things/people/situations that are not regular to them. If they have always been kinda allowed to roam around, then passing someone in the street wouldn't pike there interest...if they are always on a short leash, of course they will be interested in everything.
Having said that, dogs have different personalities. Much to Slivers horror, some dogs actually just want to come over and say hi.
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Believe me, she's a very well trained dog but the urge to greet people is ridiculously strong in her. She is a dog who goes to the people at the dog park first, dogs second. I raised her with a mix of offleash and onleash stuff, so she's not foreign to any of it. She actually isn't that bad anymore, but when she was 1-5 years old yikes.