Anyone else's pup do this? When my keys jingle and I grab her collar/leash she knows it's park time, so she gets excited and runs to sit next to the car so we can go. But when we get there, she mostly sits and observes from the bench. I'd say she spends 90% of our park time in that bench. It's not often she finds a dog she likes enough to play with. She gets annoyed by most dogs there. Anyone else have a dog who prefers to observe??? (Mind you, shes not like that at home, at all)

How many times have you taken her? Mine warmed up really quick but a lot of people I talk to have told me their dogs wouldn't interact or play the first few times they went.

We've been going twice a week for 4 months now. Like I said, shes excited to go but I think she just thinks the dogs there are too high strung. A lot of the dogs seem like they probably get to do what they want at home. So she just hangs out by the bench. She'll leave it if something really her interest but otherwise she'll just watch. She even hangs around if people have taken up the bench space so that as soon as they get up she'll climb up and lay down. Shes not frightful, she just hates everyone

Mishka, my girl, is an observer. We don't go to dog parks, but anywhere there are other dogs, like say our hikes up the mountain, she chooses to observe them from big boulders. If Kohdi is with her, she's much different, I think she feeds off his cues, but alone, she is fascinated by watching other dogs, with not as much interest in actual interacting with them.

Yeah, some dogs just like to observe! My girl looooves to play, and she's still a puppy so that's expected but I see a ton of huskies at our dog park who just do their own thing. Nothing wrong with it, its just their personality I guess!