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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank you for the helpful responses.

My husband and I talked (and cried) about it for several hours last night before bed. He is on board with getting rid of the dog whichever way is best.

We are 100% sure we are not keeping him.
We are 100% sure we are not rehoming him to just any regular person.

We have looked into rescues specifically for aggressive dogs. My husband is going to contact a few of them today and explain the situation. Depending on what they say, we will have a plan and take care of this one way or the other this week or early next week.

My kids are not in any danger. The way the house is set up and how they are separated, there is absolutely no way they can get to each other. My husband is the only one who handles the dog. I go near him twice a day to feed him and my husband takes care of the rest.

He had stopped his aggressive behavior for the most part for a long time, so we thought it would be fine once he got used to the kids. Obviously this isn't what any of us wanted in any way.

My husband pointed out that the dog hasn't been acting right over the past couple weeks. As I said, my husband is the only one who handles/takes care of him, so I hadn't noticed. He may be sick and euthanizing him might be the best option for that reason too.[b] It's my understanding that purebred dogs have more health issues than mixed breed dogs, and I would assume it would be even worse in inbred dogs.[/b][/quote]

This shows you don't know the first thing about dogs. Most dogs are inbred, OP. To have the same dog mentioned in the family tree several times is common, for those that have family trees, and most of them are not aggressive and aren't sick by 7! The way you check to see if a line has genetic defects is that you choose a breeder who tests their dogs for all known diseases and enters the info in a database called CHIC:
http://www.caninehealthinfo.org/chicinfo.html

"He may be sick". Well, there's a profession called veterinary medicine that can check that for you. Or are you saying the dog is so aggressive that no vet can go near him? [/quote]

Yep, you're right. I had never had a dog before this one. I admit I don't know much about dog.

I don't know if it's true that most dogs are inbred, but I do know that when I first took this dog to the vet and showed him his papers, he said it was a problem and would most likely cause health and behavioral issues. The dog has the same grandfather on both sides. I don't know anything about breeding dogs so I don't know how close is too close, but a vet I have known since I was a little girl and trust said it was an issue and I believe him. The family member I took him from was planning on breeding him and the vet said that should not be done under any circumstances because of the double grandfather thing. This breeder did not test their dogs and didn't enter anything into the database. Again, it was my family member who bought him, so I had no control over where he came from.

We do think he might be sick, yes, but sick or not, this is a huge problem because it has been going on for so long. We would never be able to trust him.[/quote]

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