Who Wants A Problem Dog?

[onthedl74]

Originally Posted by Skip

So if the other dogs leave right away, why do you keep going back? Kinda defeats the purpose of going to a dog park, doesn't it?

Why should I leave? My dogs are well behaved. If people choose to leave because they don't prefer the breeds that I own, too bad! My group has played with pugs to St. Bernard's and I have never had one incident. It's just that I do see people pull up to the park, look and leave. Not my fault, nor my problem !

[Beemer1]

Originally Posted by Obelix

REhoming dogs with a problem -history is very risque bussines.Who will take them,why,can they handle a problemdog? Can they prove it? If they can't handlle the dog you will know it AFTER an incident and it give amunition to BSL.So don't rehome a problem but put it down for the safety of people and the good (or bad name of the breed)
Dura lex,sed lex.

Well that sort of depends on the "problem" history. Is the problem simple misbehavior due to a lack of training? That can be corrected...not easy with a large breed once they are adults but there are rescue groups with people like myself who are willing to put the time and patience into rehabilitating a dog.

Is it a bite history? And what were the circumstances of the bite? Obviously a viscious dog is better off for the dogs sake and the safety of those around him put down. These dogs are too powerful if you can't be sure that you are 100% in control at all times.

But my two Rotties attacked a yorkie two years ago. It was the only time they have ever bitten anyone or anything. THe yorkie was not on a leash and she was barking and running toward us. My dogs were leashed and I know without a doubt that was their protective instincts taking over. I don't doubt as well if someone unkonwn to them entered my house and surprised them - they would bite then too...but other wise, they are as gentle as teddy bears. So I think there needs to be a certain measure of common sense applied to the situtation. Just because a dog bites once, doesn't mean they are mean.

[Bruce Lanthier]

Originally Posted by Beemer1

But my two Rotties attacked a yorkie two years ago. It was the only time they have ever bitten anyone or anything. THe yorkie was not on a leash and she was barking and running toward us. My dogs were leashed and I know without a doubt that was their protective instincts taking over.

Well I have to say that if your dogs thought you needed "protection" from a yorkie and attacked it, you may want to check their nerve strength. If they thought a little 10lb dog was a threat then you may want to take that kind of decision making out of their hands and put it back in your hands where it belongs. I have a bitch that does not like rude dogs at all but she wouldn't "attack" a yorkie while I was holding the leash. She has learned that I make those decisions. I think it is always a nightmare waiting to happen when dogs are allowed to make those types of decisions. What will they "protect" you from next, a running, screaming child?

[MonteRiehl]

Originally Posted by TrishB

So we have a panel of problem adult dogs available to us right now:

a) not house broken
b) constant barker
c) jumps on everyone
d) chewer of everything
e) resource guarder
f) fear biter
g) over reactive
h) outright aggressive
i) dog aggressive
j) bite history

Right here, right now - which dog are you willing to take into your home?

My answer? None of the above. I don't want another dog with issues.

I have some new fisrt hand perspective on this question. People lie to get you to take their problems away for them. The owners lied to the rescuer, and then that faulty info got passed along to me.

I tried to provide a home for a dog that was advertised to his rescuer as a good dog, who is overweight, but otherwise wonderful. Perhaps he was a chewer of stuff. He did not have any training, but was apparently socialized at dog parks.

From my experience Sat am, this dog turned out to be category i) and perhaps f). Now after my experience it is also cat j). All within 20 minutes. IMO the dog was seriously undersocialized.
Nope, don't want another person's/dogs problems, and I have learned that people Lie like sidewalks, to get you to take their problems.

I don't blame the dog, the temperment was sound once upon a time. But lack of ownership and leadership wrecked him IMO.

Now I just have to heal up.

[Bea13222]

My neighbors got a dog this summer from a rescue group. A large male rottie. They were told that he was housebroken, well socialized, raised around children. The family that had him let their 4 year old walk him. Was great around other dogs. (I told my neighbor sounds to good to be true.) The previous owners were moving to Mexico and could not take him.

Well, the dog was not socolized, leash trained, hated children, hated other dogs, food aggressive. The only thing that seemed ture was that he was housetrained.

They asked us to come see the dog. (Becuase we have rotties, we could help them, Yea right!) This dog was extremly aggressive. We had a trainer from our dog training school come over and see him. He told them that if that dogs was evaulated by him at one of the three rescue centers he volunteers at that dog would not be suitable for adoption.

They couldn't get the agency that they rescued the dog from to come pick him up.

I would be very careful when adopting someone elses problem.....We have two rescued dogs of our own and we took our time choosing them and really found out as much as we could about the rescue group that they came from.

[TrishB]

Originally Posted by MonteRiehl

From my experience Sat am, this dog turned out to be category i) and perhaps f). Now after my experience it is also cat j). All within 20 minutes. IMO the dog was seriously undersocialized.
Nope, don't want another person's/dogs problems, and I have learned that people Lie like sidewalks, to get you to take their problems.

I don't blame the dog, the temperment was sound once upon a time. But lack of ownership and leadership wrecked him IMO.

Now I just have to heal up.

Monte, I'm so sorry that this happened to you! But you're right. If this dog was a risk, it has no place in your home. Another dog or puppy will find you, will fit in perfectly and will be lucky to be yours.

[brendasue93]

To live in the bondage of the bad dog
Spencer was a very smart 8 month Rotten Lab with seperation anxiety when he was dump in our yard. One day he broke out of his crate, eat his way out of the bedroom. He opened the frig where I had a plater of steak ready for that nights dinner. The plate broke when he pulled it out and I found bloody glass on my bed like he was chewing on it like a bone. I did the cottonball chicken gravy treatment on him..Thank God everything came out alright. He was a huge pain. Everytime I left the house I had that anxiety ... Spencer past on from cancer 3 years ago. I could not and would not do another Spencer. The rescue group I just left have 3 dogs that shouldn't be rehomed one a pit that is on her 6th home in a year. We can't and shouldn't save them all. Brenda