Question for Sir T or anyone with dog experience.

[Sir Terrence the Terrible]

I don't disagree with anything you said, but concerning my dogs sister, there were subtle clues from her which made what I did the best course of action. Normally, I use the hand nose method, as you said, when I meet a new dog. I've been around dogs all my life and can read them, for the most part. Still, that doesn't make me a trainer.

You are also right about her possessing me. The point was that she went from being anxious to trusting me in a matter of an hour or so. I didn't allow that to go on beyond that point as you mentioned.

Anyway, I defer to you on these matters.

Trust never equals possession. What you thought was trust was just plain old possession. Dogs take much longer to trust somebody than an hour or so. They can possess a person in an hours time though. My dog Fredrick Von Rugenstein did it to my best friends daughter .She thought he was being really friendly because he was lifting his paw on her leg constantly. What he was really saying with that paw is "you are mine".