I'm really glad I'm in a small town and don't have to deal with busses. The idiots in jacked up pickups are bad enough, I don't think Tonka could handle a bus though he was ok with the utility truck and tree remover crews.
How is Robert with strangers? Tonka really want to interact with people but only if they are ignoring him. As soon as someone tries to touch him , he jerks away and hides behind me. Kids really freak him out but so does anything moving fast like leaves or tarps blowing in the wind.
He is nervous enough that there has been some fear biting with other dogs, especially ones bigger than him. He is ok with smaller dogs. At least he was until the neighbor had their chiweenie outside off leash and he ran over and attacked my feet while we were on a walk. Tonka got very upset and wanted to take a chunk out of the little bastard. This is the same dog that bites me everytime he close close enough to do so. I don't understand people who let their small, badly behaved dogs off leash like that.
Thats a great picture in the flowers. Let your wife take more, some day you will cherish those memories and be glad of the pics. I have very few pictures of my past dogs, thats something I regret.
He is good with strangers with some exceptions. Normally might want to leap at them and play or let people pet him. I have to keep him from jumping on people. I've let some people pet him and limit them to simple petting. No hugging or anything to get him excited about. Because he'll get jumpy or play bite. Now at his 6 mos, he wants more activity or seems to crave tugging.i stopped a while because he was teething. I'd stay away from that neighborhood dog, it could cause aggression in you dog if it bites Tonka.
It seems Robert's fear is improving slowly. I keep helping in along with my leadership and exposing him to sounds and things further in distance or with distractions. He climbed down my delivery truck with engine on today. He had to go potty, so maybe that helped motivate him.
I have to be proactive with him. At this stage he's testing boundaries. I think he's taking his sweet time with potty breaks lately, so I have to act to show him no play during potty. It sucks on rainy days and he wants to play and sniff around instead of potty.
Still so much more for him to see and hear and learn not to be scared of or bark at. Took him to park, from a distance he was ok. Up close about 15 ft from batter and he'd bark.
