I do weird things like this to my puppies from time to time--making sure it always ends up totally positive. I do it so they have a wide variety of experiences with humans so new and unusual things won't worry them. They will probably come across many different humans in their lives and some of them will act in a way that is different. I don't want my puppies to be afraid of different. If someone were to do something like this unexpectedly, I would make sure to act happy and make the incident turn out positive for the puppies--no matter how I felt underneath. They WILL pick up on the owner's reaction to the incident. I do believe they know we humans are different from them and can learn that when we do an action that when done by a dog would be threatening, it may not mean that at all when done by a human. And that they can learn to be more accepting of most human behavior. It works. Most of my puppies are quite fearless and outgoing, with only a very few exceptions.
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