“Hi Tom,
We have rescued our dog from a HAWS location and he is a hound mix, 2 years old. He was relinquished to shelter due to his previous owners living in apartments and dog was barking. Haws did share that he did pull/lunge on leash. We took him on a walk during our first initials visits to decide if we were going to adopt him and did notice he was reactive towards another dog but didn’t think about it. Fast forward we have had him for 2 months now and he has progress in terms of him being a sweet dog in the house, when we are on walks and he sees anything, strangers, other dogs, strollers, bicycles etc he gets very reactive and aggressive, lunges, pulls, barks, on hind legs. We live in apartments in a very busy area with a lot of other dogs and we tried to control when we take him out but he still reacts when he sees other dogs and in the car he also gets very reactive and jumping to back seat to get to strangers. We do see there is opportunity for obedience training and relationship building and others shared that it takes 3-4 months for him to get use to us but we don’t have that much time as we are fearful he may react and bite someone. Is there anything we can do in terms of getting his reactivity lessen with the short time he has been with us?”
xengx89 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
05/13/24