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Hershey Kisses DOES NOT jump on anyone or anything EXCEPT one very nice lady at the dog park.
The nice lady also has a Chocolate Lab (Jake - not Laura's Black Lab). We both carry Chuckits. I use tennis balls. She uses the nice rubberballs (red and blue by Chuckit) that have much nicer bounce and are kind of chewy that the dogs like.
If the lady has a ball in her Chuckit, HK will ignore me. She will be sitting in front of the lady ears all alert hoping for the ball to fall or be thrown. This escalates to bouncing around, even trying to hit the lady's arm with her nose. Finally, when none of this works, she will jump. If this lady does not have one of these balls, HK basically ignores her.
Okay, the only thing I have been able to do successfully is to leash up and move to a different field in the park, or just leave. I have brought the same ball to the park with me to use if the other person is there. It really doesn't matter, if the other person is there with that ball, HK goes into total focus on it.
So! What do I do to stop it?
Both of us think it is amusing, and yes we do laugh. But it also gets annoying that HK will not chase a different ball, play with other dogs, or just let us walk in peace.
The nice lady also has a Chocolate Lab (Jake - not Laura's Black Lab). We both carry Chuckits. I use tennis balls. She uses the nice rubberballs (red and blue by Chuckit) that have much nicer bounce and are kind of chewy that the dogs like.
If the lady has a ball in her Chuckit, HK will ignore me. She will be sitting in front of the lady ears all alert hoping for the ball to fall or be thrown. This escalates to bouncing around, even trying to hit the lady's arm with her nose. Finally, when none of this works, she will jump. If this lady does not have one of these balls, HK basically ignores her.
Okay, the only thing I have been able to do successfully is to leash up and move to a different field in the park, or just leave. I have brought the same ball to the park with me to use if the other person is there. It really doesn't matter, if the other person is there with that ball, HK goes into total focus on it.
So! What do I do to stop it?
Both of us think it is amusing, and yes we do laugh. But it also gets annoying that HK will not chase a different ball, play with other dogs, or just let us walk in peace.