This is Guinness. I am fostering him for the Tuscarawas County Humane Society. Guinness and two of his litter mates showed up at the shelter when they were 8 wks old. He was adopted by a family with children several weeks after his arrival. He was in the home for 3 months. For a while he was doing good. Then he slowly started showing fearfulness. It all fell apart at a vet visit. He never bit anyone but I would imagine he displayed some aggression because he recommended that Guinness be returned to the shelter. He back at the shelter for six months becoming more fearful and aggressive before I started working with him. His kennel aggression, especially towards men was scary. This was not the shelters fault. I know first hand that they tried to socialize him as much as possible and do what they could. When you are dealing with an animal his size things can get unsafe. This is a top notch facility. I wouldnt be associated with it unless I felt that way. This picture is Guinness at the vets office last week. You can see from my earlier post he has a laceration that needed stapled. As soon as I knew that he wasnt in any distress, the wound never bleed, and I knew a few stitches would take care of it, I realized that that this trip to the vets was the most important of his life. When training a dog, you are either trying to get a dog to repeat a behavior so you can reward that behavior as correct or to extinguish a behavior that is wrong, such as aggression. When working with aggression, recreating this behavior around humans is hard to do safely. This visit to the vets was a necessity and a situation I could control and keep the dog safe as well as us humans.
Posted on: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 23:46:08 +0000
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