My sister whom I love dearly is so clueless when it comes to her dogs. They adopted both in Arizona 2 years ago as puppies. They lived there for awhile, always had the dogs crated together (
) and they were crated for long periods at a time. So then they moved back her to Ohio and lived with my mom and dad. Again the dogs were crated together all day long while my sister and brother and law went to work. We were told to just leave them be, they are fine, don't let them out, even though my mom was home all day long....
So now the one dog has become aggressive towards to other. I mean, attacking him. BTW they are both speutered. So they go on to this dog forum that I am a member of and ask what to do. They are given loads of wonderful advice, my sister insults probably everyone on there and is just rude to them and they all stop helping her. She is looking for one person to say 'this is what you need to do and it will work' when obviously she was given a load of different ideas and approaches and she needed to take the time to figure out what is the best. They wanted to use shock collars and muzzles and things like that. This is sister and brother in law who installed an electric fence and turned the dogs loose in the yard with the collars on high to figure it out for themselves
Anyways, they decided one day that this poor dog is going to go to the pound because she doesn't behave (when they did nothing to try to correct it) I have it all set up with the dog warden (thank god I know her) that is this dog comes in she is to call me to come and get her.
In the meantime my sister calls the shelter they adopted the dog from in Arizona and they want her to either find a rescue (not a new home) that will take her or to ship her back to them. This dog is very submissive, where she crawls and flops over when anyone approaches her. I am here trying to convince her to turn the dog over to me, I will even talk to the shelter if they really want me to since I rescue all the time and I even have a name picked out that I am calling it (I will post about that in another thread). But no, she is so worried about being sued if the dog attacks someone. I am trying to explain to her that dog aggression and people aggression are two totally different things. She claims that the dog MIGHT be people aggressive because one time the neighbor said she growled at her through the fence when the lady had her dog with her. Um, my sisters dog was probably just growling at the strange dog, not the lady but the lady took it as directed towards her!!
RRGG I just don't know what to do. This dog also lunges after the cat they have. But she has never hurt the cat, just seems to want to play but they never bothered to really figure it out, just assumed the worst. I mentioned that if I lived in a house I would take this dog in a second because I love her and I know how to work with dogs a little bit and how to get help for her issues. All she said was that she wouldn't give me the dog at all because I have cats! She is like dead set against this dog going into a home and just wants her to go into a shelter, doesn't want me to help at all either. It doesn't make any sense!
I told her she needs to surrender the dog to me, I will have her sign a surrender form that I am now the legal owner of the dog. I will take her to the vet to make sure she is healthy (I suspect she is, they do keep their dogs healthy and well fed and vaccinated and everything). Then I will find her home. Let the people know that she became aggressive towards the dog she was crated with for 2 years straight. But I wouldn't banish her from ever living with another animal. She makes it sound like this dog attacked everyone that looked at her.
I am just so frusterated that my sister is an idiot. That she won't let me help even though this is WHAT I DO!
So now the one dog has become aggressive towards to other. I mean, attacking him. BTW they are both speutered. So they go on to this dog forum that I am a member of and ask what to do. They are given loads of wonderful advice, my sister insults probably everyone on there and is just rude to them and they all stop helping her. She is looking for one person to say 'this is what you need to do and it will work' when obviously she was given a load of different ideas and approaches and she needed to take the time to figure out what is the best. They wanted to use shock collars and muzzles and things like that. This is sister and brother in law who installed an electric fence and turned the dogs loose in the yard with the collars on high to figure it out for themselves
Anyways, they decided one day that this poor dog is going to go to the pound because she doesn't behave (when they did nothing to try to correct it) I have it all set up with the dog warden (thank god I know her) that is this dog comes in she is to call me to come and get her.
In the meantime my sister calls the shelter they adopted the dog from in Arizona and they want her to either find a rescue (not a new home) that will take her or to ship her back to them. This dog is very submissive, where she crawls and flops over when anyone approaches her. I am here trying to convince her to turn the dog over to me, I will even talk to the shelter if they really want me to since I rescue all the time and I even have a name picked out that I am calling it (I will post about that in another thread). But no, she is so worried about being sued if the dog attacks someone. I am trying to explain to her that dog aggression and people aggression are two totally different things. She claims that the dog MIGHT be people aggressive because one time the neighbor said she growled at her through the fence when the lady had her dog with her. Um, my sisters dog was probably just growling at the strange dog, not the lady but the lady took it as directed towards her!!
RRGG I just don't know what to do. This dog also lunges after the cat they have. But she has never hurt the cat, just seems to want to play but they never bothered to really figure it out, just assumed the worst. I mentioned that if I lived in a house I would take this dog in a second because I love her and I know how to work with dogs a little bit and how to get help for her issues. All she said was that she wouldn't give me the dog at all because I have cats! She is like dead set against this dog going into a home and just wants her to go into a shelter, doesn't want me to help at all either. It doesn't make any sense!
I told her she needs to surrender the dog to me, I will have her sign a surrender form that I am now the legal owner of the dog. I will take her to the vet to make sure she is healthy (I suspect she is, they do keep their dogs healthy and well fed and vaccinated and everything). Then I will find her home. Let the people know that she became aggressive towards the dog she was crated with for 2 years straight. But I wouldn't banish her from ever living with another animal. She makes it sound like this dog attacked everyone that looked at her.
I am just so frusterated that my sister is an idiot. That she won't let me help even though this is WHAT I DO!
