[Ckimba99]

Hello,



So, I've been a member to this forum for quite some time. I've shared my past experiences, my past situations, and I've asked for advice. And once again, I'm here with a little ultimatum to consider.

It starts like this. Today, I had a friend fly in to stay with me for 10 days. Now, I know and knew it would be a situation. Reason is, I just recently moved to the area, and I don't know too many people here, so I haven't had the opportunity to have to may people over, really, none at all since I've had my dog.

A little information about him, it's a male, 14 months old, still intact.

Anyways, so, my plan to help ease the situation was that I had my friend stay outside when we pulled up to my house, and I was going to bring Rosco out to meet him, on neutral grounds.

I brought him out, he saw my friend, and I made him sit until he was calm. Once he sat, and was calm, I gave him the go ahead to walk up to my friend, and sniff him out.

I had given my friend a handful of treats to give Rosco, just to help associate the treats with my friend and Rosco.

When Rosco walked up, smelled him, my friend told him to sit, and attempted to give him the treat, and Rosco lunged at him, with a deep bark, and pretty much tried to bite him.

Afterwards, we all went for a walk around my complex to ease the tension and attempt to get Rosco more comfortable with my friend. During that walk, Rosco walked along fine, still not sure who my friend was, but continued walking with out tension. About half way through the walk, we tried to have him give him a treat again. This time, Rosco walked up to him, sat, took the treat, and then spit it out and lunged at him again.

So we continued walking back to my home. Went back inside, and put Rosco in his crate, and he began to bark, and whine.

He continues to stay in the crate, I am going to avoid there contact all together.

I've made phone calls to the best trainer in Florida, who has over 50 years of experience, and has trained over 40,000 Rottweilers, German Shephards and Dobermans. I am awating his call, and will most likely be taking him down to his school to make an assessment.

I am waiting for his call, and we will see from there.

I thought I would share this, and get other peoples views on what to do, and how to handle it. Because at this point, I'm pretty upset and dissapointed.



Thanks.