I might be having a new problem with Luna. She is usually a very relaxed and calm dog. I was always so "proud" in the fact that she doesn't have the "pit character" that people talk badly of.
But it seems as recently she is getting more aggressive and more involved in fights, and honestly, I don't like i at all! We usually go to the dog park in our neighborhood every day, so she gets to socialize with other dogs and run in the woods, so she gets a lot of exercise, and usually when there are a lot of dogs at the park that she doesn't know, she gets tense and stressed and I know that cause she sits really close to me and shakes, but recently it has been happening more often than before. Yesterday she grabbed an innocent dog that passed by and smelled her (at least he seemed innocent to me...) by the neck and throttled him around until we separated them. When she gets like that, she usually relaxes after a few minutes and things get calm again, but in the last few days she seems to take longer to relax, and even after she does- she seems more "on the edge" than before.
I will say she is still doing really good with the dogs she knows well and plays with often, still good with kids and babies, still good with cats and people. Her aggressiveness seems to be specifically towards other dogs, usually ones she doesn't know well, if she knows them at all. Sometimes she will growl at a dog standing behind her without even looking, her initial reaction would be to growl (which she didn't do before almost at all) and then she'll stop if she turns and sees she knows the dog...
Now, a few details that might be of an influence of he changing mood are: We moved to a new place 3 weeks ago; I am expecting a baby; she has been getting less exercise than usual because of the cold weather.
She seems to be doing very well with the move and likes the new place, and there aren't any physical changes in the house yet regarding the baby, so I don't know if those have an actual effect on her moods, but I don't know...
What do you think is the best way to deal with this? Should I avoid taking her to the park for a while, or is it good for her to be there?
This is a very weird time with her, because on one hand she seems to be much more attentive to me, but on the other hand, she is getting more aggressive...
Thank you for helping!