[jlaack]

You have posted here many times before I can tell that you again are frustrated by our lack of patience for your posts. I am looking forward to the day when I read a post from you that basically reads I have found a trainer, I have had my dog evaluated, the trainer and I have come up with a behavior modification plan that I will be using to deal with my untrained dog and this trainer will be connecting with me once per week at a minimum until he/she feels that my dog is no longer a threat to the public. Once you act on your commitment to your dog I will bet the responses and help will be much more positive than what you are getting now. Those of us who have read and replied to past posts saw the aggression brewing and left unchecked since your first posts about your dog. Your dogs aggression is like an untreated wound. If dealt with in the beginning or prevented through proper rearing to begin with, the fix would have been a bandage, maybe some antiobiotic. Now the problem has grown worse and it is going to take more time, more patience, more money and effort on your part than it would have before. I am sorry for the ridiculous metaphor but I am hoping it gets through to you. Altering your dogs behavior is not going to happen over one or two sessions with a trainer. It will likely take months of sessions if not more than a year. I hope you are realistically able to make this commitment without any excuses for distance, schedule, costs, etc. Please don't kid yourself about how committed you are or aren't to the process and to your dog. If you can forsee money being tight, time not available or other potential excuses that would cause you to not follow through with this process than please do right by your dog. The longer you wait to correct this behavior, to get him into the hands of someone capable of modifying his behavior, or put him down, the worse the behavior will get, the more risk you are taking at the public's safety and the further tarnished the breeds reputation will become.