So I got a doberman male puppy around a week ago. He is now 7 weeks and one day old. Anyways, I took him to a dog park last week (Which was very stupid, never again), and he had an incident with another dog. At first I thought all the dogs were playing, they all sniffed him at first and surrounded him and he seemed to be having fun (running around with them). But there was this one dog that was considerably larger than him. He started barking at him, jumped on top of him and tried to bite him. I started going for him to get him off but his owner got him off a couple of seconds after it happened. He stopped for a while, but then it happened again and she got him off again. After that, my dog started crying so I just went ahead and left to a field empty to try to cheer him up. I know now that I shouldn't have taken him to a dog park at this age, especially because he hasn't received all his vaccinations. However I thought that since he was in the small dog section, that there will be no bullying.
My question is this: Do you think this incident will affect/has affected his confidence? Or is this a natural thing that he will forget about? Do you think this has caused him to lose trust in me as his owner?
I know I am being overly cautious but I just am worried. He's my baby and I felt like crap because I couldn't get to him before the other owner did (have a back problem so not a very fast walker).
Thanks.
My question is this: Do you think this incident will affect/has affected his confidence? Or is this a natural thing that he will forget about? Do you think this has caused him to lose trust in me as his owner?
I know I am being overly cautious but I just am worried. He's my baby and I felt like crap because I couldn't get to him before the other owner did (have a back problem so not a very fast walker).
Thanks.