Thought I'd update:
If his owners don't show, he will be coming home with me the evening of the 27th or the 28th.
He may also become a new addition if he meshes with everyone and my parents like him.
We've been thinking about getting a new dog for awhile now, but my parents tend to not actively search for anything animal-wise and just wait until one falls in their lap. LOL
I cannot wait to get him out of the kennel and get him home. Not only am I worried about him becoming stressed and starting to develop kennel/dog tendencies I don't want him to have (Chloe would have snapped and gone crazy by now had she been in a boarding situation has long as he has been), I have a coworker that I do not trust around him. Period. At all. She is one of those people who thinks she knows everything, but instead pushes all of a dog's buttons wrong. I had Attila out playing last night working on his issue of lunging for the tug toy when he looses it (and chomping down on anything in his path) and after five minutes of her coming out and "playing" too, she had him uncertain, uncomfortable, hesitant, and hunkering when she would go to touch him. UGH. And she thought it was all great and fun, and then proceeded to inform me after he air snapped at her because she PICKED UP HIS HIND LEGS WHILE I WAS PLAYING TUG WITH HIM that if he ever bit someone he would have to be put down. WTF. Chloe would have ripped her face off ten times over what this poor dog was tolerating from her.
Then she proceeded to egg him on to clobber another coworker because she thought it was funny, while he was clearly crossing the line between excited to overstimulated/loosing his head. And that the reason he was getting so amped up was because I needed to chop his balls off. WTF. I just put him back up in his kennel because I didn't want her around him.
Thankfully, I don't think she starts working in kennels until April...but now I'm freaking out that she is going to do something to him that will be hard for me to undo.
At least now I know to never let Chloe get within a 10 foot radius of her. UGH.
On the bright side, I was able to get him sitting consistently for his tug and we were starting to get to the point where he would stop mid lunge, sit, and wait for me to either throw the toy or tell him to take it while he waited politely.
Annnnnd....he will need a name change. Attila just isn't working for me. Any ideas?
I'm going to try to take some more pictures of him tonight.