No Animal Should EVER Have To Live This Way

[RickiHupp]

Update, I took him into the vet today and they checked for a microchip. No, he didnt have one BUT!!!!!!! the VET himself said that he would love to rescue him!!!!!!!! OMG i was so happy, my vet does not have any other pets inside his house and I was really getting worried about the way things were going around here. I couldnt let him off the leash in the house because he would rip the walls apart trying to get to the cat. I tried to introduce him to my male boxer but that went horrible also, you guys were right about same sex aggression. As skinny as that poor guy was MAN he was strong!! So, I am very happy to let everyone know that he is in a very good home and I told the Doug (vet) that I was going to call every once in a while and check on him.!! So over all......it was a win win situation!!

 

[ksacres]

Good ending!

 

[ninjapoodles]

Thank you for taking this poor soul in.

That is going to be one GORGEOUS dog in the near future!

 

[skirbo]

Awesomeness. I bet that's the reason the poor boy got dumped. It's not an easy problem to work with, because it takes training, training, training, consistency, vigilance and when all else fails, isolation from the trigger.

Super resolution. So glad this worked out for everybody.

Sarah

 

[RickiHupp]

Gosh I know, he is really going to be beautiful, I just wish he would have gotten along with the animals here I would have loved to keep him

Here is the ones that are in my house (Mowgli and Daisi)

 

[FarmerChick]

to be adopted by a vet.....that is one lucky dog!!!!!

great ending!

 

[ksacres]

beautiful dogs!

 

[Jenlyn9483]

That is a GREAT end to that wonderful story! That dog will no doubt have the best care money can buy plus a true animal lover and crusader for a pop. VERY NICE!

 

[skirbo]

It's a really common problem with dobies and you really couldn't have known. In fact, the user here (I forget your name already, sorry) that has two male dobies in a house together is the exception rather than the rule, even in the dobes who are bred to show rather than work. I'm just glad no one and nothing got hurt while you were figuring out his temperament.

Back when I had a friend that trained dogs in schutzhund work and police work, seems like she told me that dobies had the third strongest bite. First was the Amstaff, second was the rottie and third was the dobie. And the reason the dobies didn't do police work more often was that they had a tendency to take what she called a 'dirty bite', that is, one from the front of the mouth that was very easily broken away from. You had to train the dobe to take a 'full' bite by stuffing the sleeve in there. It was more complicated than that, but I only handled the sleeve a few times, she was too far away for me to learn much.

Anyway, where I was going with that is that dobermans were created and bred specifically to guard the master and the masters family and possessions. Good dobermans will continue to work through their own pain and they'll throw everything they have into getting their job done. In your case, even though he was starved and weakened, his everything went into getting the cats and your male boxer.

Still... so glad the vet fell in love and everybody's happy.

Sarah

 

[Msbear]

What a happy ending, Ricki!! Great job!!!