Hello!
We rescued a female boxer about 4-5 months ago and she has been wonderful. We at the time, and still do, have another boxer puppy (9 months). She is almost 2 and the sweetest thing. She is very well trained and gets along famously with Cooper as well as other dogs. From what we were told when we rescued her she was given up b/c the other family was going to have a child and didn't want both. (Just a little background info.) I have just recently been taking them both out on leashes softball games etc here and there. When a small child comes up she will lunge at them. Cooper of course gets excited and wants to play. I cannot decide whether Violet is just going for the big lick (which she does) and doesn't realize the size of the child and that it's not appropriate, or it's aggressive behavior. Of course I don't let myself find out cause I hold her back. She has never been aggressive with anyone else that has come over to our house or otherwise. i then had my nephew over today, and she was jumping on him. I have succeeded in breaking the habit with adults, but she has really had no contact with kids since we got her. She was fine at first and then my nephew would start to run and she would run over to him and jump on him, but there was a little bit of a "push off" when she jumped up on him, if that makes any sense. I then took it upon myself to attempt to teach her that my nephew was not a threat (if that's what she was thinking), and she was fine, she took a biscuit out of his hand nicely, walked beside him she was fine. Every once in awhile she would get it in her head to go for the jump - i don't know whether to consider this agressive or not, being that later layed on the couch together. If anyone has some advice or a similar situation I would appreciate it. i am hoping that it will just take the necessary training to teach her not to jump - and that's all that it is.
We rescued a female boxer about 4-5 months ago and she has been wonderful. We at the time, and still do, have another boxer puppy (9 months). She is almost 2 and the sweetest thing. She is very well trained and gets along famously with Cooper as well as other dogs. From what we were told when we rescued her she was given up b/c the other family was going to have a child and didn't want both. (Just a little background info.) I have just recently been taking them both out on leashes softball games etc here and there. When a small child comes up she will lunge at them. Cooper of course gets excited and wants to play. I cannot decide whether Violet is just going for the big lick (which she does) and doesn't realize the size of the child and that it's not appropriate, or it's aggressive behavior. Of course I don't let myself find out cause I hold her back. She has never been aggressive with anyone else that has come over to our house or otherwise. i then had my nephew over today, and she was jumping on him. I have succeeded in breaking the habit with adults, but she has really had no contact with kids since we got her. She was fine at first and then my nephew would start to run and she would run over to him and jump on him, but there was a little bit of a "push off" when she jumped up on him, if that makes any sense. I then took it upon myself to attempt to teach her that my nephew was not a threat (if that's what she was thinking), and she was fine, she took a biscuit out of his hand nicely, walked beside him she was fine. Every once in awhile she would get it in her head to go for the jump - i don't know whether to consider this agressive or not, being that later layed on the couch together. If anyone has some advice or a similar situation I would appreciate it. i am hoping that it will just take the necessary training to teach her not to jump - and that's all that it is.
