I think Alaska has stinky balls.
*I deal with trauma with humor, can’t help it . Awful situation, and I don’t have dog(s)currently, but had them growing up
Well, hell. Now what? (Dog bit me) - 2nd Update: #353
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*I deal with trauma with humor, can’t help it . Awful situation, and I don’t have dog(s)currently, but had them growing up
The dog is 2 years old. Clearly something happened that it lashed out.
I also find it comical how many of you say never wrestle or roughhouse with your dog. We have a 60 pound golden doodle that I have rough housed with since we got him. He’s now 9 and never once bit me or anyone else. We can be in the middle of playing tug o war and I stick my hand in his mouth and he drops the toy. He could be eating his favorite snack and I stick my hand by his mouth and he drops the snack.
We have 2 dogs and an 8 month old child and I have never once been worried about either doing anything to him. The only thing we have to do is keep telling our cavapoo to stop licking him.
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Didn't answer the question. After biting the owner would you rather be shot or released in a nature preserve?
Maybe once Jonesy does something he knows he shouldn’t have done. We can give him the option of being put down or thrown out into the wild to survive and see which one he chooses.
Get him into stake-boarding. Pretty sure those dogs are misbehaved but it's excused because of the awesome talent they have. The dog is disposable right now.
Damn I actually have to work for several hours and come back to @alaskanseminole telling us this news. I can't imagine how hard this all is. Coming on here and baring your soul can also be heartwrenching. Just know we are here for you and your family. Hugs man.
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Jeez dude. You have posted about keeping weaponry in the house before. Now you don’t understand the four legged danger around the house.I wish it was that easy. The other 99% of the time:
Wierd take.
I don't envy you, Alaskan. You're making the right decision. I'm not ashamed to admit I had a tear in my eye while reading this thread.
And don't lie to your son. He's smarter than you're giving him credit for.
And don't lie to your son. He's smarter than you're giving him credit for.
Sorry dude. Love them doggies myself. Lost a few myself over the years and while your love grows for one dog, there are plenty of new dogs waiting for your family’s love, in the wings and that feeling comes back; of course it takes time.Here's our discussion with the veterinarian/trainer that is tied to the training company we used.
Positive Considerations:
- Wrestling with Joey is a non-factor in this. Overall, he has been very well trained.
- She asked if he's had injuries. Sometimes that can be the culprit to the reaction. We said no.
- "IF" we didn't have a child in the home additional training could definitely be a viable approach. She (the vet/trainer) has seen a lot of success and rehabilitated dogs. However, see below:
Negative Considerations:
- Vet said this almost certainly wasn't a resource guarding issue (which stinks because we can train him out of that).
- Since we don't know what was stressing him out, it makes this very difficult to retrain. What behavior are we trying to fix? We don't know.
- Turns out, this was the 2nd time (I was unaware of the first) that he lunged out. Joey did it to my wife last fall when I was out of town when she tried to get a sticker-burr out of his paw. (Level 2--no skin break, she had forgotten).
- Mine was a Level 4/5 bite. Vet does not recommend rehoming for anything above a 3. Now we know, without question, what Joey is capable of.
- Vet agrees with our primary concern being our son and his friends' safety (hence why no additional training works for us). We can't live with ourselves if something ever happened.
Results:
So, it turns out the breeder is unable to take Joey after all. Her husband said no. Therefore, I will be euthanizing Joey later this week. I will be going at this one alone and I'm not looking forward to having to do this a SECOND time in under a year. Putting down my Jack about broke me. This one will break my son's heart. Just watching my wife hang up the call, hold Joey and bawl was enough.
Hasn't even been 12 months:
To put my pooch "down" or not. :(
My Shih Tzu is 12 years & 8 months old and has Cushing's Disease since he was 7. He's on meds for that plus two for a subsequent bad heart. He's been overweight since being diagnosed (23lbs vs 15 for his breed). He's also on an eye drop regimen. For the last 3 months his quality of life...iowa.forums.rivals.com
Didn't read the thread despite the retitling to include the update.
Compares a dog bite to keeping secured weapons in the house.
VERY weird take.
Give it a rest. You're not funny. If ever.
We're reaching out to organizations who may help us relocate him. He clearly can't stay here and releasing him into the wild is about as dumb of an idea as I've seen you post (and that's saying something).
Go troll somewhere else...your schtick is old.
Don't sell yourself short, you're incredibly stupid. Don't let anyone take that from you.
What’s stopping you from adopting this dog? If you aren’t willing to, shut up.
Alaska, keep looking. Someone will take this pooch. If I didn’t have kids, I would.
Already asked. I'd probably just end up setting him free. Don't really want a dog.
Fwiw, my dog nipped a vet assistant once while she was trying to clip his toenails. Apparently she was in a hurry and was being rough with him, and he treats getting his toenails trimmed like the most traumatic experiences of his life.
We've assumed he has very sensitive paws, as he's never really liked them being touched for very long, particularly underneath around his pads.
I wasn't at the appointment when that happened, but from what I was told, our dog wasn't held responsible for what happened.
Yep just lucked out with every dog I’ve had.
I hope I luck out and my child learns how to read and be a good kid as well.
Or maybe it’s because I’ve spent a lot of time with them and trained them.
It took my wife and I almost 7 years to have a child so our dogs were basically our kids and got a ton of attention from us.
Dogs don’t just learn how to behave on their own.
I’m not at all saying Joey’s owner was a bad owner but I’m not just going to be someone that chalks it up to Joey just being a bad dog.
If you're in that much money and time I'd go to the effort of hiring a behavioral specialist to try and address the issue. Had to do this with my German shepherd and it really worked well. Want to say it was maybe 1,000 bucks total bc I boarded her with the trainer for a week to get her really trained on being around other dogs with no issues. She learned and her behavior improved drastically. She had one real incident after that where I tried taking a bowl of leftovers I'd given her away (thought she was done but she was not). Thankfully I was wearing a thick sweatshirt which protected me a little bit but I still got one deep puncture wound from her snapping at me. As soon as she did it she had a look on her face like "wtf did I just do" and immediately skulked into her crate and laid down with her tail between the legs for the rest of the night. Been totally fine since that moment with no additional changes other than actively reinforcing some of the behaviors that the trainer worked with us on in general. Sometimes the dogs issues can be issues with us as owners that we are just obliviousn to.
It's true that temperaments differ from breed to breed, however, temperament is definitely bred into dogs.
Some poorly bred dogs are just shitty dogs.
We had one dog that was never going to work out with kids. All in the litter were put down. We took on a biting border collie. We trained it. Great dog eventually. Looking back it was foolish. It wasnt easy and didnt work until the kids were faced with putting her dow or taking assertive control which they did. The previous owner wrestled with hef and did tug of war. The dog knows Im the alpha dog, not her. My kids have learned to put her at the bottom of the pack. I can never show weakness or pet her. We can play ball if she 100 percent follows orders. My kids can be affectionate but have struggles if they let things slide.
Sorry to read this, Alaska Guy. I feel badly for your son. It's clear he loves his pooch.
...and just ignore the douches in this thread.
...and just ignore the douches in this thread.
TLDR. Put him down. Consider yourself lucky it wasn’t your kid or stranger
Did you realize you made a silly remark and now you’re stuck with running it into the ground?
SMH
I can’t disagree. This trend to breeding designer doodles or other breeds is new territory.
Like pits and Labs. Talk about two polar opposites.
Sorry to hear this. Rough deal. Put me in the camp that thinks you should do everything possible to find him a new home. He may need to go to someone that has other dogs that are more dominant and force him to accept a lower position in his new pack. I'd try that or I'd try to find someone single with a strong personality to give him his best chance.
To OP, I am very sorry...it's going to be rough. We just had to put down our gentle giant a few days ago...a 9.5 year old Italian Mastiff. I am seeing him out of the corner of my eye even though I know he's not there.
Moral, with fighting dogs, they are always culled if they show any aggression towards humans. Humans have to handle them after fights. They likely made good companion pets as long as they were in single dog homes and responsibly handled if in public.
No, I responded in the order which the thread presented.
Sorry for y’all’s loss.
Especially for your son, pets are huge and he will remember…
As far as loaded weapons and a biting dog, well, think about it without bias.
No... some unsuspecting family could end up with it and their child gets their face eaten off.
What's the bias? Explain to me how weapons in the home has anything to do with a biting dog. My guns aren't loaded and are all secured in one of two safes to which only I have access.
I'll wait.
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