kenilworth king
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- Feb 26, 2014
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- archie
Hello all. I know there are a couple of other agression threads started here but i thought i needed to start a new one. I have a 18 EB who until about a month and a half ago has been nothing but an awesome experience. Our only issues we ever had to worry about was puppy biting, jumping on people for attention. The little things that can sometimes be annoying but really no harm. When he was 6 months old or so he was in and out of the vets with skin infections, ear infections for a good two months. We changed his food and that seemed to take care of the major scratching. All was good. Never had issues with the vet. When we took him into the vet for his 1 year vaccination he had to be muzzled and held down because he was growling furiously at the vet and even lunged at him a couple times. We were shocked because he had never shown that type of agression towards anyone. The vet told us to be careful because this was how he was going to act when stressed. We didn't believe him because it never happened before, we thought maybe archie was just tired of going to the vets.
The next incident came about 2 months later. We took him out of town to my baseball tournament and he snapped at a stranger and a guy on my team who he knew from going to baseball almost every week all summer. We thought maybe he was just stressed from being somewhere strange out of town.
Third incident was christmas time. We had a house full of 20 people or so, so we put archie in his crate cause we didn't want him jumping all over everyone. He doesn't or has he ever had problems going in his crate. a lot of times when we're all sitting around he goes in there on his own. My uncle was one the guest over for christmas and he had never been over to see our house yet so i gave him the tour. He went to pet archie in his cage and he snapped at him. I let him out seconds after he snapped and he was fine with my uncle. Like they were best friends forever. We left him out the rest of the night and besides being hyper he was fine with everyone. We thought maybe he just didn't like a stranger petting him in his cage.
Then about a month ago our son had a friend sleep over. The two boys came out of the bedroom. Archie went to the friend and let him pet him for about 5 seconds and then from out of nowhere with no sign he lunged at him and luckily just got his shirt at the stomach. Needless to say the boy was very nervous the rest of the night and so were we. Every time the boy wanted to come out of the room our son would come out first to make sure archie was with us and under control. Wasn't a very good feeling to feel that way the rest of the night.
At that moment we started talking about what we thought was going on, remembering each incident and wondering if we we're just making excuses first the first time it happened and we just had a mean dog. That's when we seriously started thinking that maybe we needed to find him a new home before something happens. And at this point the kids are starting to be a little nervous of him too.
Last week we went for our nightly walk before bedtime and we ran into a neighbor walking her dog. We run into them at least once a week on our nightime walks. She went to pet archie and he jumped of all fours and had her by her arm but again lucky it was just her coat he ripped. It's a neighbor we run into all the time and she's rubbed archie many times so i don't know what happened.
We have contacted a couple of rescues because we don't know what else to do. Nobody seems to want to take in a dog that has shown agression and honestly i understand that. Getting rid of him is the last thing we want to do but we are at a total loss right now. He is such a good dog 99 percent of the time. knows all the basic commands, sits when he comes in from outside so we can wipe his paws if it's wet out, after wiping paws he follows us to the bathroom so we can clean his butt, if i take the brush or nail clippers out he lies on the floor to get groomed, sits while you clean his ears and wrinkles. He really is a extremely smart well behaved dog for the most part.
Just wanted to ask if any of you have had this happen or have any advice to help. I'm afraid if we can't get this solved or at least improved very soon we will have no other option then letting him go. And nobody in the family wants that to happen.
Sorry for being so long and hope it makes sense, just want help.
Thanks
The next incident came about 2 months later. We took him out of town to my baseball tournament and he snapped at a stranger and a guy on my team who he knew from going to baseball almost every week all summer. We thought maybe he was just stressed from being somewhere strange out of town.
Third incident was christmas time. We had a house full of 20 people or so, so we put archie in his crate cause we didn't want him jumping all over everyone. He doesn't or has he ever had problems going in his crate. a lot of times when we're all sitting around he goes in there on his own. My uncle was one the guest over for christmas and he had never been over to see our house yet so i gave him the tour. He went to pet archie in his cage and he snapped at him. I let him out seconds after he snapped and he was fine with my uncle. Like they were best friends forever. We left him out the rest of the night and besides being hyper he was fine with everyone. We thought maybe he just didn't like a stranger petting him in his cage.
Then about a month ago our son had a friend sleep over. The two boys came out of the bedroom. Archie went to the friend and let him pet him for about 5 seconds and then from out of nowhere with no sign he lunged at him and luckily just got his shirt at the stomach. Needless to say the boy was very nervous the rest of the night and so were we. Every time the boy wanted to come out of the room our son would come out first to make sure archie was with us and under control. Wasn't a very good feeling to feel that way the rest of the night.
At that moment we started talking about what we thought was going on, remembering each incident and wondering if we we're just making excuses first the first time it happened and we just had a mean dog. That's when we seriously started thinking that maybe we needed to find him a new home before something happens. And at this point the kids are starting to be a little nervous of him too.
Last week we went for our nightly walk before bedtime and we ran into a neighbor walking her dog. We run into them at least once a week on our nightime walks. She went to pet archie and he jumped of all fours and had her by her arm but again lucky it was just her coat he ripped. It's a neighbor we run into all the time and she's rubbed archie many times so i don't know what happened.
We have contacted a couple of rescues because we don't know what else to do. Nobody seems to want to take in a dog that has shown agression and honestly i understand that. Getting rid of him is the last thing we want to do but we are at a total loss right now. He is such a good dog 99 percent of the time. knows all the basic commands, sits when he comes in from outside so we can wipe his paws if it's wet out, after wiping paws he follows us to the bathroom so we can clean his butt, if i take the brush or nail clippers out he lies on the floor to get groomed, sits while you clean his ears and wrinkles. He really is a extremely smart well behaved dog for the most part.
Just wanted to ask if any of you have had this happen or have any advice to help. I'm afraid if we can't get this solved or at least improved very soon we will have no other option then letting him go. And nobody in the family wants that to happen.
Sorry for being so long and hope it makes sense, just want help.
Thanks