Mollys 'hello' technique is flawed any advice

[loopylou]

Our lovely Molly/Vicky continues to thrive, however we have one problem with her I would be grateful for any advice on. If Jackie is reading this I wonder if she knows what we're doing wrong.Molly is fine with other dogs walking alongside them, standing next to them or hanging out with them having a White Lodge pic nic, The problem we have with her is the initial greeting most times when another hound sniffs her face she snarls and barks at it , nothing sustained, we immediately tell her off and move her away,sometimes she's happy for them to hve a quick sniff but after a few seconds warns them off.Yesrerday two friendly greys said 'hello' Imust admit they mobbed her slightly and she snarled and barked, but later walked happily alongside them.We have her muzzled for the initial meeting up on the WL walks and then take it off and she behaves beautifully, she even snuggled up to Yetis Troy and Mac during a storm ;)It seems to be dogs more than bitches she has this reaction to, but that could be that there are more boys want to say hello.She isn't always like it and when we walked the rescues was a star.Also this may sound stupid but the one positive point in having such a spooky dog as Suggs is that he is fantastic and well mannered around the other dogs ( famous last words)and doesn't seem to take a lead from Molly Minx .Is there any thing we can do to try and improve Mollys initial greeting technique I praise her loads when she gets it right, or is it an elderly lady thing that we better get used to. ;)Luckily for us everyone is very nice about it and tend to see it as a 'batty old bird' eccentricity.Although I wonder if she feels threatened .... nah not Molly

[Lisa]

The problem isnt actually Molly whos hello technique is flawed but that of the rude dogs being allowed to push into her face to say hello. When dogs great each other they should do it politely and calmly which is why people should work on the way they allow dogs to great others. If they go steaming in rudely its quite threatening and the other dog is bound to react especially an older bitch who has good manners and isnt willing to put up with this type of in your face rudeness from a younger hound.

Also the reason she is willing to walk alongside is because again they arnt in her face or being as she deems confrontational. You should never walk towards someone with a dog to greet them because you are walking the dogs directly head onto each other and again this is causing a volitile situation you should allow the dogs to draw upside each other to say their hellos.

[Deleted]

I think it's to do with laydees of a certain age & standing, Ellie will not tolerate any slippage of decorum & if anyone has a whisker out of place she tells them off, especially youngsters and even more so males (I can almost hear her muttering about the youth of today). It's like once she has put everyone in their place she is fine.

It's quite amusing because I can tell when she's going to let fly, she almost bristles in warning, then the handbag comes out & the other dog is like whoah

The dog that flew across the road & attacked Pixie a few weeks ago got it's arse well & truly put into place as Ellie had him scuttling for cover in a few seconds.

[loopylou]

Thanks for that Lisa I was really worried we'd done something wrong , some people are really good and ask if its o.k. for their dog to greet Molly and I take her to stand next to them which explains why she doesn't growl at them, I will ask the others to bring their dog alongside her in future.Suggs always greets her sideways on i if he's been in the garden or another room so he's obviously learnt some manners ;)In that case if she's not to blame you've let us adopt a perfect dog