Let's see, Miko (shikoku) obviously loves pit bulls. She also has played very well with the following breeds Akita Inu English Mastiff Pembroke Welsh Corgi GSD Rottweiler some Labs Puggle
She does NOT like Beagles or Bassett hounds, AT ALL. She does not appear to care for any of the toy breeds. IN general she seems to do better with dogs her size or larger. SO long as they are patient dogs.
Moto (my shiba from a few years back) liked EVERYONE except golden retrievers.
I have only had Hilo (Akita Inu) a few weeks, but he mostly ignores strange dogs. He plays with my other 2. But he may possibly be the most mellow dog in history.
Good question... It's hard to tell since Etsu is concentrating more on the gender than on the breed... He is very tolerant about Papillons, even with males, maybe because he grew up with one? He doesn't like toy breeds and gets along better with breeds his size or taller. He does not get along with wrinkled (Shar Pei, Puggle, Bulldogs) or hairy faces (Briard etc). He has most fun playing with dogs that have a similar "physical" play-style and love playing chase, bodycheck and fun-fights, which are other Shibas, Staffys, Huskies etc... I love Am-Staffs too and would love to adopt one from a shelter, but since they are considered "dangerous breeds" the taxes are about 5-6 times higher than for "normal" dogs and you don't find a flat or an insurance with them... Thats too difficult and too expensive for a student like me...
My two play better with other spitz breeds... They do not seem to do well with breeds that do not have similar play styles.
Nola and Harley will chase each other around the yard on occasion, but other than that, no play.
Bella and Harley will start to play, but Bella has to REALLY tone it down for Harley and she gets bored with it easily.
Harley is slowing becoming more able to deal with Bella's roughness... So in a few months, you never know, we may have some good play rumbles on our hands between those two.
Labs when Koda was a puppy because they are happy go lucky and not typically rude. They could wrestle together. Not so much now that Koda is older and likes to run. Labs are a little lazy in that area.
Koda loved a Pug, a 43 pd. one, but that was because he could wrestle for hours and not get hurt by his nub teeth. Again really rare big Pug.
GSD's, Huskies, Shibas
I can tell you better who they do not get along with: herding dogs who bark in their face, toy breeds (because what is a 40-50 pd. dog going to do with a 7 pd. one), Golden Retrievers, malamutes, Amercian Akitas, Chows, and any rude dog who doesn't have proper manners or barks in their face this also goes with hound.
Maymay likes Pits because they run fast, and she can race them.
Taro and Riki does well although Riki just stayes to him self and doesn't really play much anymore. When Taro comes by Riki and urges him to play, he will get up and hide from every one else. But all my Kishus play well with other breeds. Taro and Yuki loves to play with Sammi the rottweiler. They play really really rough to the point where one of them will get upset and Dady has to step in and calm them down.
Ki does play very well with other spitz breeds (especially larger huskies). I think that's partly because their owners are not surprised when he goes all crazy flying karate dog McAngryface. My friend's lab is Ki's BFF. Banjo (the lab) seems to adjust really well to other dogs' play styles as long as they aren't overtly aggressive. He's just very adaptable. Ki's had other lab and lab/pit friends before who were similarly forgiving. He's also had some fun with a local dobie...larger dogs in general are usually good for him (if they are decently social) since they can handle energetic play and can effectively let him know when to stop.
Chihuahuas all seem to hate him even if he's just sitting somewhere doing nothing but in visual range. Other small dogs are just understandably freaked out by his pouncy nature.
Actually my dogs will go after any dog smaller then a shiba so they are not friendly with all dogs but dogs that are about the same size. Stink'n hunting dogs will go after any small thing that runs.
I don't know that dogs really recognize difference in breeds--perhaps more difference in size, but likely not breed. Thankfully, they're fortunate to be ignorant of race issues. Personality seems to be more important than a dog's breed, of which he is likely unaware.
"I don't know that dogs really recognize difference in breeds--perhaps more difference in size, but likely not breed." I would disagree with you... Perhaps they wouldn't see a difference between Malinois and dutch Shepherd, but the difference between a french Bully and a Westhighlandterrier is obvious. My little one is a racist. Everything that looks too much different from him is odd. He goes after Bullies and Pugs and fluffy dogs. What makes me think, that dogs can recognize differences is not only this, but also that he goes after little fluffy dogs like long-haired Chihuahuas, but not after Papillons, which are not so much different from long-haired Chihuahuas... So they can recognize differences in appearance...
Koda must be a racist then. He prefers black dogs to light ones. He definitely sees difference in bigger fluffier dogs. He gives them his crazy look with ears to the side like don't you dare get next to me you hairy big ol' monster.
I trust Koda with little dogs. He doesn't know quite what to do with them, but he wouldn't try and kill them. I DONT TRUST Maymay with little dogs. If they ran off leash it would be on! She would have that thing in her mouth in two seconds. I don't trust her with cats either and hope that one never runs through my yard. Keeping my fingers crossed on that one.
So far Panda likes all the dogs she has met, small and large. The small one don't all like her rough and tumble play style, but I've always removed her from those situations before she really noticed how upset the little dog was by her presence. Some dogs she's played with very well: Canaan dogs, Pit mix, Chocolate lab, Husky, two brave Chihuahuas, Boxer . . . that's all the different dogs she's played well with. She was playing really well with a border terrier, but just recently they haven't been getting along. I think she plays a little too rough with him, too many body slams and jumping on his back. I think it wouldn't be such an issue if he wasn't smaller than her, and could let her know when she's being too rude. As it is he's too small to get his point across at the right moment in their play sessions, so she won't be playing with him for a while.
Koda growled and barked at an Irish Wolfhound today at the park that was doing nothing to him. I'm sticking to my big hairy dog theory. He is just an ass to them which is super surprising because Koda is known as the best behaved dog there. He is usually so patient and tolerant.
I think they do recognize breeds, at least some, because my GSD hated boston terriers after one bit me. Everytime he saw one, he got stiff and put his hair up and growled...And my Shibas certainly recognize other Shibas and behave differently with them than with other dogs...
I have no idea what it is they are recognizing, but I think that is more than just size/body shape (but perhaps I'm wrong there, and my GSD would have disliked any dog with the size/shape of a Boston--say a pug?). It's an interesting question, actually--what do they recognize and react to? I know the AA I had years ago was very poorly socialized when I got her, and I didn't help matters, and she was afraid of most people, but she loved my mom, and ever after meeting her, she would react positively to blonde women (though once they got close she seemed to recognize they weren't my mother and she was shy again, though not as shy as she was with, say, a dark haired man).
Hmm...now I'm talking myself out of breed recognition and wondering if it is just size and shape! Ha!
On a funny note, my male Shiba is fearless, but he once met a friend's English Bulldog, and it scared the hell out of him! It was clear he saw that snorting, oddly moving animal, and thought that is NOT a DOG, OMG What is it!? He hid behind me. Then he seemed to realize it was a dog, and he growled like crazy, and has hated bulldogs ever since, though that was the extent of the incident. I still think he's not entirely convinced they are not dog-scented monsters.
Bulldogs, pugs and other dogs with similar faces look (and sound) as if they were growling and threatening all the time, so a dog that is not used to this can easily turn frightened or aggressive, because it "misunderstands" the body-language of the other dog. The same goes with hairy dogs - they can't show off their face-expressions, because of all the hair over the face, so other dogs have a tougher job understanding them properly. They don't see small calming or warning signals. I think dogs divide by form, size and colour... What they like or dislike is due to socialisation and good/bad experiences. Etsu likes young blond women (maybe because I'm blond), tall dark-haired men (my ex-boyfriend) and older women (his breeder). And he absolutely adores children of all kind, perhaps because the breeders grand-children and their friends played with the puppies a lot?
I think dogs divide by form, size and colour... What they like or dislike is due to socialisation and good/bad experiences.
I think this is true, however in my dog's case not so true. Koda was socialized with big hairy dogs at a young age. He had a malamute friend that was five years old. They did well together. I think he's just an ass sometimes. lol. That's the thing with socialization and experiences. You can do everything that can be done to socialize your dog with every dog possible and without any bad experiences and they still might act like asses sometimes without any real explanation that you can think of. Koda's that ass. ha ha ha
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Miko (shikoku) obviously loves pit bulls. She also has played very well with the following breeds
Akita Inu
English Mastiff
Pembroke Welsh Corgi
GSD
Rottweiler
some Labs
Puggle
She does NOT like Beagles or Bassett hounds, AT ALL. She does not appear to care for any of the toy breeds. IN general she seems to do better with dogs her size or larger. SO long as they are patient dogs.
Moto (my shiba from a few years back) liked EVERYONE except golden retrievers.
I have only had Hilo (Akita Inu) a few weeks, but he mostly ignores strange dogs. He plays with my other 2. But he may possibly be the most mellow dog in history.
He is very tolerant about Papillons, even with males, maybe because he grew up with one?
He doesn't like toy breeds and gets along better with breeds his size or taller. He does not get along with wrinkled (Shar Pei, Puggle, Bulldogs) or hairy faces (Briard etc).
He has most fun playing with dogs that have a similar "physical" play-style and love playing chase, bodycheck and fun-fights, which are other Shibas, Staffys, Huskies etc...
I love Am-Staffs too and would love to adopt one from a shelter, but since they are considered "dangerous breeds" the taxes are about 5-6 times higher than for "normal" dogs and you don't find a flat or an insurance with them... Thats too difficult and too expensive for a student like me...
Nola and Harley will chase each other around the yard on occasion, but other than that, no play.
Bella and Harley will start to play, but Bella has to REALLY tone it down for Harley and she gets bored with it easily.
Harley is slowing becoming more able to deal with Bella's roughness... So in a few months, you never know, we may have some good play rumbles on our hands between those two.
Labs when Koda was a puppy because they are happy go lucky and not typically rude. They could wrestle together. Not so much now that Koda is older and likes to run. Labs are a little lazy in that area.
Koda loved a Pug, a 43 pd. one, but that was because he could wrestle for hours and not get hurt by his nub teeth. Again really rare big Pug.
GSD's, Huskies, Shibas
I can tell you better who they do not get along with: herding dogs who bark in their face, toy breeds (because what is a 40-50 pd. dog going to do with a 7 pd. one), Golden Retrievers, malamutes, Amercian Akitas, Chows, and any rude dog who doesn't have proper manners or barks in their face this also goes with hound.
Maymay likes Pits because they run fast, and she can race them.
They play best with eachother.
Chihuahuas all seem to hate him even if he's just sitting somewhere doing nothing but in visual range. Other small dogs are just understandably freaked out by his pouncy nature.
I would disagree with you...
Perhaps they wouldn't see a difference between Malinois and dutch Shepherd, but the difference between a french Bully and a Westhighlandterrier is obvious.
My little one is a racist. Everything that looks too much different from him is odd. He goes after Bullies and Pugs and fluffy dogs. What makes me think, that dogs can recognize differences is not only this, but also that he goes after little fluffy dogs like long-haired Chihuahuas, but not after Papillons, which are not so much different from long-haired Chihuahuas...
So they can recognize differences in appearance...
I trust Koda with little dogs. He doesn't know quite what to do with them, but he wouldn't try and kill them. I DONT TRUST Maymay with little dogs. If they ran off leash it would be on! She would have that thing in her mouth in two seconds. I don't trust her with cats either and hope that one never runs through my yard. Keeping my fingers crossed on that one.
I have no idea what it is they are recognizing, but I think that is more than just size/body shape (but perhaps I'm wrong there, and my GSD would have disliked any dog with the size/shape of a Boston--say a pug?). It's an interesting question, actually--what do they recognize and react to? I know the AA I had years ago was very poorly socialized when I got her, and I didn't help matters, and she was afraid of most people, but she loved my mom, and ever after meeting her, she would react positively to blonde women (though once they got close she seemed to recognize they weren't my mother and she was shy again, though not as shy as she was with, say, a dark haired man).
Hmm...now I'm talking myself out of breed recognition and wondering if it is just size and shape! Ha!
On a funny note, my male Shiba is fearless, but he once met a friend's English Bulldog, and it scared the hell out of him! It was clear he saw that snorting, oddly moving animal, and thought that is NOT a DOG, OMG What is it!? He hid behind me. Then he seemed to realize it was a dog, and he growled like crazy, and has hated bulldogs ever since, though that was the extent of the incident. I still think he's not entirely convinced they are not dog-scented monsters.
The same goes with hairy dogs - they can't show off their face-expressions, because of all the hair over the face, so other dogs have a tougher job understanding them properly. They don't see small calming or warning signals.
I think dogs divide by form, size and colour... What they like or dislike is due to socialisation and good/bad experiences.
Etsu likes young blond women (maybe because I'm blond), tall dark-haired men (my ex-boyfriend) and older women (his breeder). And he absolutely adores children of all kind, perhaps because the breeders grand-children and their friends played with the puppies a lot?
I think this is true, however in my dog's case not so true. Koda was socialized with big hairy dogs at a young age. He had a malamute friend that was five years old. They did well together. I think he's just an ass sometimes. lol. That's the thing with socialization and experiences. You can do everything that can be done to socialize your dog with every dog possible and without any bad experiences and they still might act like asses sometimes without any real explanation that you can think of. Koda's that ass. ha ha ha