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Walk | "Talk" | think

She got worried just by his sitting up.  Hmm, Rudy still couldn’t fathom what could cause her to act like this.  Hopefully making her a master fighter would help her get stronger.  Rudy could have jumped up into a standing position, the pup loved moving fast but instead, he took his time standing up.  Did she realize fighting wasn’t a slow process?

“Ok, so what we will do…” Rudy started off with confidence before faltering as he imagined where to start.  Most of the time he’d imagine you start learning to fight by just fighting.  The motley grey pup imagined that wouldn’t work with her skittish disposition, at least not right away.  So that threw out what made the most sense.  “Um, ok.  Maybe we can start with a stance.  Standing right is important.  You gotta be able to attack and defend fast.”  

“So, you need to stand and have your head lowered a bit,” Rudy said lowering his own head so it was a straight line from the head down the neck and to the shoulders, “Like this.  It’s harder to get to your neck like this, see?  You should learn to glare too.  No one’s going to be intimidateded by someone scared, they won’t take you seriously.  You don’t even need to feel confident so long as you can look it.  Glare, show off your teeth, get your hackles up.”  Intimidation was certainly a point to be made about fighting, at least in Rudy’s mind.  He was about to make an example of looking threatening at her then reconsidered it.  Instead, he growled and glared to one side of her,
“See?”

Relaxing his posture he offered her a wag of his tail and easy smile, “You try!”