re: Crazy morning at dog park

Some herding dogs are bred to quickly recover from a kick or strike from a cow or a sheep. If you strike them with a leash, it triggers that reaction. One of the possible results would be the dog ferociously going after the person striking them.

My Aussie would have turned on that woman had she struck my dog with the leash. My lawn guy always got along with her, but for some reason he got nervous one day and decided to dust her with air from the leaf blower. He had to call me to "rescue" him from the bed of his truck as my dog had him surrounded LOL.