Something About Murphy

Last night was our second day of school.  This time we went in and out of the class room practicing what we were learning.  We learned "down" (although I pretty much already knew it), a more difficult "leave it", "drop it", and a recall exercise.  But the best part was seeing my girl friend Marley!  All she wanted to do was play and I would have liked to play too but we had so much work to do there wasn't time - Rats!

 Stanley was a perfect poster dog for his behavior.  He was so well mannered that all of us are in shock!

 This is one of my classmates.  I call him Blackie.  He has a twin who looks just like him.  I call the other one "Blacky" (notice the spelling difference).  I haven't talked to them much, their peeps are very quiet.

This is my friend Charlie.  His hormones were really raging this week.  He is younger than me and Stanley but he just had one thing on his mind.

I have to tell you what happened.  When we were going into our classroom, the prior class was coming out. Several people were just standing outside the doorway.  There was a couple standing there with 2 small dogs.  As we passed them I greeted the first one, then moved on to get through the door and stopped to greet the second one.  The other dog was receptive and we sniffed noses and then out of the blue (as verified by my teacher, I did NOTHING wrong), she attacked me!  I was scared to death!  I cried for some time as I was really upset.  The dog's peeps said the dog never did such a thing before.

Now to put this in perspective, just prior to this, when we were walking around the store and practicing meeting dogs, this other dog acted negative towards me too.  Not Stanley.  He tried to hump Stanley but he wanted to eat my face.  At least everyone saw that coming and we were pulled back before anything happened.  Then the day before, Sunday, when we were going into church, I greeted another dog and she nipped my nose!  Again, there was no warning.  There are 2 other instances that my mom can recall where a dog has been negative towards me but fine with Stanley.  So this leaves me to believe there is something about me that dogs don't like.  With each of these instances I was being friendly and using my manners and not jumping or being over zealous.  So mom is very upset as she cannot figure out what to do.  But she said she is now to the point where she is concerned about my safety.  And frankly, I think I am too!

So if anyone has any suggestions, we would love to hear them.  Because we are very perplexed.  I am actually a very gentle in spirit pup and was the runt of my litter.  But there must be something about me . . . 

Murphy


PS - The people who appeared to be mean to their dog were not there this week so we are wondering if they dropped out.  If so we feel sorry for that pup!