Foster dog bites

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have been in such a situation and put the dog down myself. It is not hard to do

What did you do?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have been in such a situation and put the dog down myself. It is not hard to do

What did you do?

Np. I don't think we want to know how they killed a dog.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have been in such a situation and put the dog down myself. It is not hard to do

What did you do?

Np. I don't think we want to know how they killed a dog.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm heartbroken. We have the fluffiest, cutest foster who (according to rescue) is a Great Pyrenees/spaniel mix. He has been very shy with my husband and I, but never showed any sign of aggression. We left him at home for an hour and came back with a person who he has never met. She approached him very very slowly, sat down on his level...and he chomped her arm. Not a playful mouthy chomp but a full on bite. Then she walked away and he did it again, on her hip. What do we do? Call the rescue and return him immediately?

Is this your first dog you are fostering? I would call the rescue and ask for advice although I honestly blame you more than the dog. You knew the dog was nervous and yet you introduced a new person to them. You set them up for failure and now the dog may pay. Please don't foster any more dogs until you get more training.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm heartbroken. We have the fluffiest, cutest foster who (according to rescue) is a Great Pyrenees/spaniel mix. He has been very shy with my husband and I, but never showed any sign of aggression. We left him at home for an hour and came back with a person who he has never met. She approached him very very slowly, sat down on his level...and he chomped her arm. Not a playful mouthy chomp but a full on bite. Then she walked away and he did it again, on her hip. What do we do? Call the rescue and return him immediately?

Is this your first dog you are fostering? I would call the rescue and ask for advice although I honestly blame you more than the dog. You knew the dog was nervous and yet you introduced a new person to them. You set them up for failure and now the dog may pay. Please don't foster any more dogs until you get more training.

OP don’t listen to this “it’s your fault” preaching extremist. You did nothing wrong. A fair percentage of rescue dogs, unfortunately, are homeless due to aggression. You have to let the rescue know what happened and get the dog out of your home today. This is tragic but NOT your fault:

[Anonymous]

Firstly an unknown dog should be crated around visitors.
But yes you call the rescue.

[Anonymous]

The dog is not yours. Call them and let them know what happened. If the dog needs to be PTS, that’s their call.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Firstly an unknown dog should be crated around visitors.
But yes you call the rescue.

Yes, this.

Op did the rescue not offer any information? You allowed a stranger to approach a dog you know very little about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Firstly an unknown dog should be crated around visitors.
But yes you call the rescue.

Yes, this.

Op did the rescue not offer any information? You allowed a stranger to approach a dog you know very little about.

Fosters are responsible for socializing the dog and observing their behaviors around new people. This dog bit someone, twice. Email the rescue and tell them what happened. They should take the dog back and put him down. Dogs like this are NOT adoptable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have been in such a situation and put the dog down myself. It is not hard to do

What did you do?

Np. I don't think we want to know how they killed a dog.

They inject a drug that puts them to sleep. Same as when a dog is euthanized due to illness, injury, old age, etc. Stop trying to scare people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm heartbroken. We have the fluffiest, cutest foster who (according to rescue) is a Great Pyrenees/spaniel mix. He has been very shy with my husband and I, but never showed any sign of aggression. We left him at home for an hour and came back with a person who he has never met. She approached him very very slowly, sat down on his level...and he chomped her arm. Not a playful mouthy chomp but a full on bite. Then she walked away and he did it again, on her hip. What do we do? Call the rescue and return him immediately?

Is this your first dog you are fostering? I would call the rescue and ask for advice although I honestly blame you more than the dog. You knew the dog was nervous and yet you introduced a new person to them. You set them up for failure and now the dog may pay. Please don't foster any more dogs until you get more training.

OP don’t listen to this “it’s your fault” preaching extremist. You did nothing wrong. A fair percentage of rescue dogs, unfortunately, are homeless due to aggression. You have to let the rescue know what happened and get the dog out of your home today. This is tragic but NOT your fault:

Pp your response to my comment is really over the top. Most of the time it is the human's fault and if you don't learn from your mistakes than you are doomed to repeat. It doesn't mean you are a bad person. We all make mistakes.

Where I fault you is you knew the dog was anxious and you set her up to fail by introducing a new person too soon. Don't beat yourself up but don't listn to the pp who sounds clueless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have been in such a situation and put the dog down myself. It is not hard to do

What did you do?

Np. I don't think we want to know how they killed a dog.

They inject a drug that puts them to sleep. Same as when a dog is euthanized due to illness, injury, old age, etc. Stop trying to scare people.

Are you the pp who killed the dog? Because your response was unclear it was more scary than my response. Why didn't you just say we put the dog down? Not dramatic enough?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah. Great Pyrenees see guard dogs. I don’t know what has made them trendy but I guess they must be breeding them for some market.

Many people think Great Pyrenees are golden retrievers except white and a little bigger. They aren’t. Totally different temperament. We have a lovely Great Pyrenees mix that we got as a puppy and super mellow not at all hyper like a golden. They were bred to guard livestock and love to roam. Should not be biting people. Our GP can be bossy but gets along great with other dogs, cats, horses…. And never bit anyone in his life. GP are not aggressive dogs.

A dog this size that bites is scary. Call the rescue and return him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah. Great Pyrenees see guard dogs. I don’t know what has made them trendy but I guess they must be breeding them for some market.

Many people think Great Pyrenees are golden retrievers except white and a little bigger. They aren’t. Totally different temperament. We have a lovely Great Pyrenees mix that we got as a puppy and super mellow not at all hyper like a golden. They were bred to guard livestock and love to roam. Should not be biting people. Our GP can be bossy but gets along great with other dogs, cats, horses…. And never bit anyone in his life. GP are not aggressive dogs.

A dog this size that bites is scary. Call the rescue and return him.

I have a purebred Pyr that we rescued and he is absolutely a guard dog. Friendly as can be with people he knows and has been introduced properly to, also friendly when people approach us on walks and want to pet him, and excellent with children and other dogs. The caveat is our house is the area he protects, he guards our home like he’s guarding livestock, we did not train him to be a guard dog it is part of his nature. We bring him outside to meet people coming to our house, after he’s been introduced to people, when they enter our home with us he is completely fine with that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah. Great Pyrenees see guard dogs. I don’t know what has made them trendy but I guess they must be breeding them for some market.

Many people think Great Pyrenees are golden retrievers except white and a little bigger. They aren’t. Totally different temperament. We have a lovely Great Pyrenees mix that we got as a puppy and super mellow not at all hyper like a golden. They were bred to guard livestock and love to roam. Should not be biting people. Our GP can be bossy but gets along great with other dogs, cats, horses…. And never bit anyone in his life. GP are not aggressive dogs.

A dog this size that bites is scary. Call the rescue and return him.

I have a purebred Pyr that we rescued and he is absolutely a guard dog. Friendly as can be with people he knows and has been introduced properly to, also friendly when people approach us on walks and want to pet him, and excellent with children and other dogs. The caveat is our house is the area he protects, he guards our home like he’s guarding livestock, we did not train him to be a guard dog it is part of his nature. We bring him outside to meet people coming to our house, after he’s been introduced to people, when they enter our home with us he is completely fine with that.

PP. You know better: The rescue thought our mix was half lab or golden. He is the laziest, a full on coach potato. The chihuahua is a better guard dog and the GP mix defers to her