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[quote=Anonymous]Our dog is several years old and has some pretty serious fear-based issues that cause him to bark and lunge at strangers. He’s on medication and we’re actively working with a behaviorist, which we’ve been doing for about a year. We’ve made very little, if any issues progress. Before anyone tells me to put my dog down, he is 20 lbs, he never goes outside without a leash, and we don’t allow any strangers to approach or get too close to us. We are absolutely not putting him down.

My question is this: for the sake of trying to rehabilitate him, we take him on regular walks/out to parks/etc (with treats, clicker, and paying a lot of attention to him) that he usually does ok on, but are clearly pretty stressful for him. This is at the advice of the behaviorist, who thinks there is a good chance we can help him over time. As I said before, we’ve been doing this for about a year without results. At what point do we or did you accept that his best life is one inside our home?

He is great at home and absolutely adores us, although bathroom breaks can be stressful if we see other people out. Other than that, 0 problems in our house, so I’m wondering if at some point we just have to accept that he isn’t a dog who likes being in public and be done with it.[/quote]

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