Dog Health Questions: Are guard dogs trained to attack people if they run? Have you ever been chased by a guard dog,what did you do?

When I was a kid I was walking in a field with a stick in my hand (next to a pub here in Ireland) when I saw a German Shepard at the back of the pub, it saw me, stood up, popped up its ears and just looked at me - I froze, then decided to get the hell out of there, lol. I started to run and as I looked back the dog was racing after me, I was running towards a wall but knew I wouldn't have time to scale it so I stopped dead, turned around and for some reason threw the stick on the ground and shouted no. The dog suddenly stopped and just looked at me. I walked backwards to the wall, kept eye contact with the dog and climbed up and that was that.

What I never understood is why the dog chased me in the first place, I guess simply because I ran, lol. My big mistake was to run wasn't it? Why exactly did it stop when I stopped - was I no longer a threat, was it because I had thrown away the stick I was carrying or was it because I shouted no and it recognised the word? Wonder would the dog have actually attacked me had I not stopped running and it caught me? Thanks.

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a real gaurd dog is trained to give chase on comand but only attack if commanded to do so. I think it stopped because you stopped showing fear.

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