can anyone explain this phenomenon to me ?
i have a lovely lively little staff. now, when she goes to the park and i let her off the lead, she has a good old run around, and there might be people in the park, and she wont take any notice of them.... now, every so often from a great distance, she will see a person (usually young male)and go bombing towards them....and these people that she tends to run towards of of the dog fearing variety, who then start running from her, and you got it, the more they run the more she chases after them, its never with malice, but obviously, if yer a dog fearer, the sight of a very excited dog with its jaws wide open hurtling towards you is quite scary....
she does, she just seems to single these people out from great distance, and i do worry that one of these people is gonna do something on her that might make her attack them.... she is just a playful little thing, and i love to give her the freedom of the park so that she can run run run run run her little legs off, i really love to watch her running and enjoying her freedom, but i do worry about her upsetting someone.
but pray tell, do these people not realise that running makes the dog chase them more?