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Wonderful post! Weak nerved dogs can be very scary. My friend had a gorgeous Catahula (Louisiana Catahula Leopard Dog...herding cattle) she got from a so called rescue. Nails? He had to be anesthetised! Fine in a crate one night, not a sound. Then shredding his pads almost trying to escape another. Ate an entire chicken wing pizza one night, counter surfing. There was no stopping him. It was as if he was posessed.

In between all this he showed himself to be fairly intellegent. She started some rudimentary agility and clicker training. She did contact a behaviorist over the pad shredding and pizza incident. Things got more serious.

He was so unstable he'd be enjoying a pat, with warm loving blue eyes gazing, the bite the very hand three seconds later. Then he went berzerk in her kitchen. Broke nearly every dish in the house. No idea what if anything set him off, either. DH was getting kids ready for bed so he was in another room.

He was mercifully released from his demons the next morning, with my friend holding him one last time.