Ok, I must be losing it because for the first time in 3yrs my family has a foster dog. He is a 5-6yr nuetered male lab named Nitro with a few big issues, namely resource guarding amoug others although housebreaking him is going to be the easy part. Over all he's a good dog and my hubby's project although I've been helping as much as I can. Just when I thought we were done fostering, he comes home with Nitro, oh well, I do love a challenge.
My gf thought we were done fostering after the two shepherds I had went. One is out of the house, the other is going to her new home on the 11th. And I just took on two more. :x
Congrats! Nitro is such a cool name too. The people at the shelter here where we pull our dogs, they use names like "Lucky Too" or "Lucky Also". lol
Thanks! Were your fosters usually easy dogs or they more challenging? I ask because I always get the resource guarders, the destructive ones, seperation anxiety cases, dominant, or whatever is the most challenging one at that time. If by extreme chance, I get a completely trained easy one, I usually end upswapping with another foster home as soon as a challenging one comes in. Never get little puppies but that doesn't matter as my hubby prefers older dogs as in atleast 6mths old to seniors. I was just curious what your experience has been.
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My first and only foster dog was extremely difficult... the only dog in fifteen years of doggyness (is that a word?) to put me in a&e - the bite wound wasn't too bad but damaged two tendons and broke a bone in my hand ouch.
Mind you she was a lot nicer at the end of the fostering.
Bitch was dog aggressive, human aggressive, resource guarded, had no training, was definately not cat friendly and had most of the obsessive, neurotic behaviours known to man.
doggyness... love it. If it's not a word, it should be. Thanks for telling me about your foster. It's nice to know what others have dealt with. I haven't had a human aggressive foster, as they are usually weeded out due to liability issues, however my current foster was supposed to be an only dog preferably as he tends to exhibit dominant behavior toward other dogs and even tends to have selective hearing on commands I know he can do in his sleep, if he thinks he can get away with it. He is also not cat friendly and other than resource guarding tends to be a really sweet dog.
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Back in High school my family fostered a white shepherd. She had already severely injured large Rotts and another set of dogs another foster owned. The great news was, we found she was totally unreactive when not forced to meet and play nice with other dogs. Fine walking next to them, passing them and being near, just couldn't ask her to greet or hand out off leash with them. She was an amazing girl once we figured her out.
We also fostered a young pointer mix. Excape artist, destructive and crazy He destoyed about $10k in antiques before he moved on. At that point in time, he was beyond our skill set as we knew nothing of "crate training" or the other then very new methods
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