I'm cross posting this from another forum. The poster is a member here, as well, but I don't think she's been here in quite some time.
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"I haven't talked to my friend in a while but she called me just now and has a huge problem.
Apparently over the past couple of months, Charlie has been dominant/aggressive (has bit her 4 times, one fairly nasty cut as I understood it). She's taken him to numerous trainers and nothing has helped (though there aren't any decent "behavioral" trainers in the area, so I'm not surprised). I'm not sure how long ago (likely 2 weeks maximum), but she had someone take him. She told the woman about his aggression, and the woman thought she could deal with it. However, she's pretty much told my friend (today) to come and get him ASAP......she can't cope. Problem is, my friend lives with her parents, and they won't allow him back in the house.
So guess who gets asked? LOL Now I'd be more than willing to take him temporarily to try and work with him, but with PJ being laid up, I don't want to take any chances bringing another dog into the house. Charlie hasn't been dog aggressive, but I'm just not prepared to chance it having an injured dog at home.
I have told her I will take him IF she finds him a home/rescue that'll take him and it's just a matter of here being an inbetween place where I'll just have to keep everyone separated for a couple of days. I'm just not prepared to do it long term.
She also asked me to find out if anyone on the dog forum I visited would be interested in taking him on. I honestly can't say how bad the aggression is since I haven't seen him since I took the pics, but being a young dog, I have a feeling he can be "rehabilitated", and I'm sure the issues won't seem as bad, or unfixable to someone who has knowledge and experience with dogs. My friend is NOT one of those people (Charlie is/was her first dog, and likely her last after this experience), and quite frankly I'm shocked that she chose a BC in her situation. She obviously didn't research the breed first.
There are some issues I feel have caused this behavior. First off, she lives in the city in a subdivision. Her yard is small, and most of it is taken up by a pool.....so he had no room to run. She did walk him (Two one hour walks/day), plus playtime, but he never got to be offleash/run. Secondly, her parents didn't want their house "wrecked" by the dog, so in the house he was pretty much in an x-pen all the time. So he was couped up and likely stressed/frustrated about it. Being a high energy breed with heavy exercise requirements, I think these things alone could have progressively caused his behavioral issues.
She did have a BC rescue willing to take him, but one of the "trainers" she went to called the rescue and told them he had "rage syndrome", so they will no longer take him. I've never even heard of "rage syndrome", but assume it's a term used by people who don't have an f'ing clue what the problem is.
Anyway. Charlie is now 9 months old, microchipped, up to date on shots and neutered. He has been raised with cats (not aggressive with them), and doesn't have dog aggression issues......it appears it's humans/authority he has issues with. If any of you have any suggestions on what to do here, or would be willing to take him on, please let me know. My friend is trying to do what's best for him here, and if he doesn't get out of the situation he's in real soon, she fears this woman may have him PTS or even dump him out in the middle of nowhere. She really is irate about my buddy not jumping on Christmas day to come collect him. My friend is also willing to drive him up to a few hours away if it means him finding a home (or foster home). If any of you are willing to take him on even as a foster and rehoming him yourselves, I'm sure she'd be willing to do that too.
She is trying to contact other rescues, but she's terrified she won't hear back from them (due to the holidays) in time before the woman that currently has him does something rash."
Some pictures (taken four months ago):
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I understand that not all dogs are salvagable, but I also understand that some aggression problems are escalated due to the dog's living conditions...I shudder to think of how Chloe would have turned out in the hands of a novice who had know idea what they were doing.
And although I've never seen the dog....I doubt it is rage syndrom. Really, really doubt it. We dogsat a Cocker one time that attacked a guest, constantly tried to bite at the kids, and would get extremely possessive over my mom and myself...but he didn't have rage syndrom, he was just babied by his owners and never given any rules. And because of that, he was euthanized. In a home that actually would have set down bounderies and enforced them he would have been fine (after a rough period while he got used to the new way of living) - he wasn't unstable, he just didn't have rules. From the description of the situation, that seems to be Charlie's predicament.
Can anybody help, or does anyone have any advice?
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"I haven't talked to my friend in a while but she called me just now and has a huge problem.
Apparently over the past couple of months, Charlie has been dominant/aggressive (has bit her 4 times, one fairly nasty cut as I understood it). She's taken him to numerous trainers and nothing has helped (though there aren't any decent "behavioral" trainers in the area, so I'm not surprised). I'm not sure how long ago (likely 2 weeks maximum), but she had someone take him. She told the woman about his aggression, and the woman thought she could deal with it. However, she's pretty much told my friend (today) to come and get him ASAP......she can't cope. Problem is, my friend lives with her parents, and they won't allow him back in the house.
So guess who gets asked? LOL Now I'd be more than willing to take him temporarily to try and work with him, but with PJ being laid up, I don't want to take any chances bringing another dog into the house. Charlie hasn't been dog aggressive, but I'm just not prepared to chance it having an injured dog at home.
I have told her I will take him IF she finds him a home/rescue that'll take him and it's just a matter of here being an inbetween place where I'll just have to keep everyone separated for a couple of days. I'm just not prepared to do it long term.
She also asked me to find out if anyone on the dog forum I visited would be interested in taking him on. I honestly can't say how bad the aggression is since I haven't seen him since I took the pics, but being a young dog, I have a feeling he can be "rehabilitated", and I'm sure the issues won't seem as bad, or unfixable to someone who has knowledge and experience with dogs. My friend is NOT one of those people (Charlie is/was her first dog, and likely her last after this experience), and quite frankly I'm shocked that she chose a BC in her situation. She obviously didn't research the breed first.
There are some issues I feel have caused this behavior. First off, she lives in the city in a subdivision. Her yard is small, and most of it is taken up by a pool.....so he had no room to run. She did walk him (Two one hour walks/day), plus playtime, but he never got to be offleash/run. Secondly, her parents didn't want their house "wrecked" by the dog, so in the house he was pretty much in an x-pen all the time. So he was couped up and likely stressed/frustrated about it. Being a high energy breed with heavy exercise requirements, I think these things alone could have progressively caused his behavioral issues.
She did have a BC rescue willing to take him, but one of the "trainers" she went to called the rescue and told them he had "rage syndrome", so they will no longer take him. I've never even heard of "rage syndrome", but assume it's a term used by people who don't have an f'ing clue what the problem is.
Anyway. Charlie is now 9 months old, microchipped, up to date on shots and neutered. He has been raised with cats (not aggressive with them), and doesn't have dog aggression issues......it appears it's humans/authority he has issues with. If any of you have any suggestions on what to do here, or would be willing to take him on, please let me know. My friend is trying to do what's best for him here, and if he doesn't get out of the situation he's in real soon, she fears this woman may have him PTS or even dump him out in the middle of nowhere. She really is irate about my buddy not jumping on Christmas day to come collect him. My friend is also willing to drive him up to a few hours away if it means him finding a home (or foster home). If any of you are willing to take him on even as a foster and rehoming him yourselves, I'm sure she'd be willing to do that too.
She is trying to contact other rescues, but she's terrified she won't hear back from them (due to the holidays) in time before the woman that currently has him does something rash."
Some pictures (taken four months ago):
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I understand that not all dogs are salvagable, but I also understand that some aggression problems are escalated due to the dog's living conditions...I shudder to think of how Chloe would have turned out in the hands of a novice who had know idea what they were doing.
And although I've never seen the dog....I doubt it is rage syndrom. Really, really doubt it. We dogsat a Cocker one time that attacked a guest, constantly tried to bite at the kids, and would get extremely possessive over my mom and myself...but he didn't have rage syndrom, he was just babied by his owners and never given any rules. And because of that, he was euthanized. In a home that actually would have set down bounderies and enforced them he would have been fine (after a rough period while he got used to the new way of living) - he wasn't unstable, he just didn't have rules. From the description of the situation, that seems to be Charlie's predicament.
Can anybody help, or does anyone have any advice?
