Some of you might recall some time ago when I mentioned that my two dogs were attacked in our local 'doggy park'.  Since then, I have avoided this area, plumping for much bigger spaces for them to play in.  Whilst the majority of owners were lovely, it was too small a space and there were too many owners with dogs who kept invading our space.  This included badly behaved children (with parents and dogs!) demanding to play with your dogs or screaming stupidly.  We now visit larger country parks where interestingly both dogs and owners are better behaved.  We do still come across other dogs but no problem ones and everybody is very careful to approach things in a polite and organised way, e.g. asking permission before your dogs can play.  The problem is not the other dogs but my spayed bitch, Maisie.  Not surprisingly, she has changed from a happy go lucky play with anyone dog to a highly defensive dog - especially when being approached by bigger dogs.  She snaps and growls and tells them off but hasn't actually attacked - yet!  Billy is fine.  He is a different sort of dog - he tends to shrug things off a lot more than Maisie does - he doesn't seem to remember things like she does.  She is, as ever, fine with all humans and submits happily to us both indoors and out on walks.  Her recall is good, she walks to heel - my only criticism would be that she gets a little excited and bouncy in new situations but she does calm down after about 5 minutes.  As a pup, she never bit me once or made any attempt to unlike Billy who had to have bite inhibition instilled into him.  How can I make my little dog enjoy socialising again?

I would take her back to puppy classes, the more dogs she spends time with the better, and she will lean that all dogs are different .try not to avoid dogs when you see them or hold her closer, as she will pick up your worry and think something wrong. Lots of socialising with lots of dogs is what she needs :)