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- Sep 30, 2010
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Thank you everyone for your advice. First off, my husband and I are making contact with our local breed club, who does rescue, to talk about rehoming him into a better situation for him, and us. For the time being, we are keeping an even closer eye on the baby and the dog and not allowing the dog on the couch (at night when we all are sleeping, I don't care, but otherwise he is off furniture now). I don't know how much I buy into the whole "pack/alpha" mentality, but at the least, i do believe he feels the baby is a "puppy" and is warning him how he would warn a "puppy"...which of course a human baby won't understand. And since the couch is the place the issue has been occurring, he is off now.
We adopted him from an individual, not an organization, and her daughter had rescued him from a high-kill shelter in Montana, with the intention of rehoming him. We were told he had been around young kids and dogs, and was super sweet. After we got him, they told us he was kept in the garage most of the time (ie, contact with kids may be negligible), had I known that, we would have passed on him. He is an angel 99.9% of the time, learning his commands great, doesn't care when the kids walk or crawl by him, not upset by either of them crying, eats out of my hand very gently, good with our neighbors dog, etc.
I was raised with weims, I know the rap they have, but that hasn't been my experience with them. My parents weims are great with my kids. I was raised around other large dogs as well, my grandparents have trained dogs for decades now, I know, for the most part, what I am doing. I know dogs+kids can be bad, but I also know, despite what some trainers and resources would lead you to believe, most people do not wait until they are retired and have no kids at hoe to have dogs, and most of the time, it works out fine. This time, it isn't working out, and it sucks.
I was have never been someone who views dogs as disposable, once they are here, they are home. But, my kids have to be first and in this case, the risk of something happening has to outweigh anything else. We do plan to rehome him, ideally to the breed rescue group. I do think that would be best for him, and I think he will make an absolutely great dog for someone with no small children.
We plan to wait a while before trying a dog again, and if we rescue, we will go through a reputable shelter or breed group (lesson learned there; I refuse to feel bad for trusting people though, even if it was a bad choice). Or, we may wait a couple years, and get a puppy from a reputable breeder, so we know their history from the beginning. (I think I would feel differently about rehoming vs watching and training if we had had him this whole time, and knew he had never bit anyone, never moved past the growl, you know?)
Anyhow, we are waiting for the group to get back to us.
We adopted him from an individual, not an organization, and her daughter had rescued him from a high-kill shelter in Montana, with the intention of rehoming him. We were told he had been around young kids and dogs, and was super sweet. After we got him, they told us he was kept in the garage most of the time (ie, contact with kids may be negligible), had I known that, we would have passed on him. He is an angel 99.9% of the time, learning his commands great, doesn't care when the kids walk or crawl by him, not upset by either of them crying, eats out of my hand very gently, good with our neighbors dog, etc.
I was raised with weims, I know the rap they have, but that hasn't been my experience with them. My parents weims are great with my kids. I was raised around other large dogs as well, my grandparents have trained dogs for decades now, I know, for the most part, what I am doing. I know dogs+kids can be bad, but I also know, despite what some trainers and resources would lead you to believe, most people do not wait until they are retired and have no kids at hoe to have dogs, and most of the time, it works out fine. This time, it isn't working out, and it sucks.
I was have never been someone who views dogs as disposable, once they are here, they are home. But, my kids have to be first and in this case, the risk of something happening has to outweigh anything else. We do plan to rehome him, ideally to the breed rescue group. I do think that would be best for him, and I think he will make an absolutely great dog for someone with no small children.
We plan to wait a while before trying a dog again, and if we rescue, we will go through a reputable shelter or breed group (lesson learned there; I refuse to feel bad for trusting people though, even if it was a bad choice). Or, we may wait a couple years, and get a puppy from a reputable breeder, so we know their history from the beginning. (I think I would feel differently about rehoming vs watching and training if we had had him this whole time, and knew he had never bit anyone, never moved past the growl, you know?)
Anyhow, we are waiting for the group to get back to us.
