Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We took a dog to a no kill shelter because she was biting everyone in the house. My kids were 9 and 10 years old and I we couldn’t have their friends in the house. I felt bad, but honestly, it was a relief.

If the dog was biting it’s not adoptable. It will spend the rest of its life in the shelter. It’s like prison. You should have had it euthanized.

This sounds sane, but as someone who has spend decades volunteering and working for rescues and shelters in multiple states now, I've got a secret: a lot of us who know what we're doing will adopt these "not adoptable" dogs and make fine pets of them. YOU can't do it, because you don't know what you're doing. A lot of these "problem" dogs just need better-trained handlers.

Sorry not sorry. Thanks for the free dogs!

Nearly every pitbull that maims or kills a kid was rehomed from a no kill shelter that hid the bite history and marketed it as a "fine pet"

Anonymous wrote:We took a dog to a no kill shelter because she was biting everyone in the house. My kids were 9 and 10 years old and I we couldn’t have their friends in the house. I felt bad, but honestly, it was a relief.

Why wouldn't you put a viscious dog down?

Rescues will just hide the history and send them to bite another person, or worse

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We took a dog to a no kill shelter because she was biting everyone in the house. My kids were 9 and 10 years old and I we couldn’t have their friends in the house. I felt bad, but honestly, it was a relief.

WTF
so irresponsible

Yeah, what they taught their kids...very sad. This is apalling. Poor dog.

This dog is still your dog. You need to find a solution, and giving him away is not the solution- not for you or him.
Find someone, by paying them, to come over during this time. I had a biting reactive basket case of a rescue dog for 6 years. I understood that after I got him and also understood that it's my paradigm shift. He adored and trusted me, so I adjusted. He had a tough background. I was inconsolable after he died and wasn't really at all relieved that I didn't have to jump through hoops because of his issues. One would think I would have been relieved. No.

That said, if I had young kids, which I know he would have adjusted to, it would have been risky if their friends came over, and it wouldn't have worked out, but I would have realized that immediately. It does not sound like you do have young kids- it sounds like it is you and him. Work it out and good luck with your surgery. You can do this, OP.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We took a dog to a no kill shelter because she was biting everyone in the house. My kids were 9 and 10 years old and I we couldn’t have their friends in the house. I felt bad, but honestly, it was a relief.

WTF
so irresponsible

What? This seems incredibly responsible. This person had a pet that was hurting her entire family and other unrelated children. Getting rid of the dog is a no brainer.

DP but I think the PP’s point was that she should have put this dog down. Taking it to a shelter was just sentencing it to a long and stressful purgatory before very likely the same outcome.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We took a dog to a no kill shelter because she was biting everyone in the house. My kids were 9 and 10 years old and I we couldn’t have their friends in the house. I felt bad, but honestly, it was a relief.

WTF
so irresponsible

What? This seems incredibly responsible. This person had a pet that was hurting her entire family and other unrelated children. Getting rid of the dog is a no brainer.

Just sending you some hugs, OP, because I know there are people here who demonize anyone who is not as perfect and healthy and rich and experienced as them.

You've clearly tried other avenues to help your dog, and you're clearly out of options. In the same way that some people have depression or anxiety, your dog has severe anxiety and is unhappy to the point of shtting uncontrollably all over people's houses. That's no way for an animal to have to live. It's not anyone's fault.

You don't say how big your dog is, but a large dog that is anxious and aggressive takes him from being a nuisance to being a danger. If you can't find a shelter or rescue that will board him for 2 months (or if you can't afford it which is no fault of yours), then I agree a peaceful and gentle end is a kindness.

Can you talk to your vet clinic? They might have some suggestions or maybe one of the staff would be up for taking him with temporarily or permanently.

Fyi, Animal Welfare League of Alexandria offers crisis care for situations just like this... They posted about it on their Facebook Page this morning.

You could also work with a local rescue or shelter and see if they can help you with a temporary foster while you recover. Many of these places have programs like this to keep dogs from being surrendered due to a temporary issue.

You need to work with him. We found a groomer who came to us and is great. It took a bunch of sessions to work through things and three of us fighting with the dog but we eventually got her to calm down. We bathe her at home. She’s great socializing with others but needs to be next to us. We are starting day care, crating for two hours, etc. get the dog on meds and use an in home vet. Our dog freaks out at the vet but we get her through it. Part of it is them, part you. We know we play a role in it.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We took a dog to a no kill shelter because she was biting everyone in the house. My kids were 9 and 10 years old and I we couldn’t have their friends in the house. I felt bad, but honestly, it was a relief.

If the dog was biting it’s not adoptable. It will spend the rest of its life in the shelter. It’s like prison. You should have had it euthanized.

This sounds sane, but as someone who has spend decades volunteering and working for rescues and shelters in multiple states now, I've got a secret: a lot of us who know what we're doing will adopt these "not adoptable" dogs and make fine pets of them. YOU can't do it, because you don't know what you're doing. A lot of these "problem" dogs just need better-trained handlers.

Sorry not sorry. Thanks for the free dogs!

Anonymous wrote:We took a dog to a no kill shelter because she was biting everyone in the house. My kids were 9 and 10 years old and I we couldn’t have their friends in the house. I felt bad, but honestly, it was a relief.

If the dog was biting it’s not adoptable. It will spend the rest of its life in the shelter. It’s like prison. You should have had it euthanized.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Research board and train programs in your area. They aren’t all at the $1500 per week that was quoted earlier. It sounds like your dog could greatly benefit from one even if you weren’t having surgery.

If that isn’t an option please speak with your vet. They may work closely with reputable rescue groups that could be an option. You can also speak with breed specific rescue groups to see if they are accepting surrenders.

It sounds like op needs a vet behaviorist rather than a board and train. If the trsiner uses old fashioned techiques tge dog could come nack with more anxiety.

OP needs to do what the post requests help doing: surrender the dog. No amount of outside training for the dog is going to educate OP, while she recovers, in a way that's going to keep whatever training the dog learns in doggy daycare once it's back at home.

Training the owner is how you train a dog. If the owner knows, the dog will know. If the owner doesn't, even the best-trained dog will lose training over time. If you're starting with an ignorant dog and an ignorant owner, you need to train the owner first.

Anonymous wrote:Research board and train programs in your area. They aren’t all at the $1500 per week that was quoted earlier. It sounds like your dog could greatly benefit from one even if you weren’t having surgery.

If that isn’t an option please speak with your vet. They may work closely with reputable rescue groups that could be an option. You can also speak with breed specific rescue groups to see if they are accepting surrenders.

It sounds like op needs a vet behaviorist rather than a board and train. If the trsiner uses old fashioned techiques tge dog could come nack with more anxiety.