two and a half year old rescue staffy mix who is friendly and well socialized in calm settings but has begun showing clear stress signals at our local dog park in the last three months, the published advice on dog park etiquette treats the question as binary should you go or not and does not address the middle case of a dog who can handle some park visits but not others, looking for families and trainers who have navigated the selective dog park dog and what the actual decision framework looks like inside it
Tessa is a two and a half year old spayed female staffy mix we adopted at fourteen months old from a regional pit bull rescue who pulled her from a southern state shelter after she had been there for...