Well, he has you now....very sad for the little dog though. He's cute, I love white faced dogs. The thing about not leaving him in a crate probably has more to do with how he was managed...in other words, you'll do a better job ;-)

Cathy, my current dog kind of had the same situation.
He had killed a smaller dog in one of his foster homes and was then labeled a bad seed!!!

The foster home left him out loose with the little dog thinking they had "cured" him of his DA.

They were honest with me when i had inquired about him, and i said I didn't have a problem with it because i said it was the foster homes mistake for leaving him alone with a little dog, not Tuckers fault.

so I am sure he will find the right home...i for one think he's adorable!!! And i would be a bit of a grump too if some little dog was biting at my genitalia!!!

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Cathy, my current dog kind of had the same situation.
He had killed a smaller dog in one of his foster homes and was then labeled a bad seed!!!

The foster home left him out loose with the little dog thinking they had "cured" him of his DA.

They were honest with me when i had inquired about him, and i said I didn't have a problem with it because i said it was the foster homes mistake for leaving him alone with a little dog, not Tuckers fault.

so I am sure he will find the right home...i for one think he's adorable!!! And i would be a bit of a grump too if some little dog was biting at my genitalia!!!

"The foster home left him out loose with the little dog thinking they had "cured" him of his DA."

So sad....and preventable. Thank goodness they owned up to their mistake and lack of management in setting up a DA dog for failure (not to mention the little dog who was killed).

 Quote: Tresa Hendrix

.... The thing about not leaving him in a crate probably has more to do with how he was managed...in other words, you'll do a better job ;-)

Good points.

I think you are really great for having taken him in. Really wonderful.

But guard your heart: he looks pretty old. If this sweet boxer is 9 vs. 7 you may not have him long.

Left him loose in a bedroom. Ended up being at orientation for 5 hours. Presenter wasted a lot of time. Thought he was funny and would do a comedy show. Came back to a damaged door frame. Oh well, I can fix that myself. I don't think he spent the whole 5 hours working on it since it was a small amount of damage. Maybe the last hour or so was too much for him?

I asked for more details about "not good left in a crate" and was told that he bites at the wire to the point of bleeding. Yikes. The wire crate that I thought would be big enough for him is about 2 inches too short. He's a tall boy. He'll still lay comfortably in it but I'd feel bad leaving him for hours.

Game plan right now is to leave him loose(whole house access) like his last owners did until I get a bigger crate and have him comfortable staying in it while I'm home. He really does seem more comfortable not confined even to a bedroom and I can deal with property damage better than an injured dog. I've left him loose for a couple short periods with no property damage or barking. I don't like leaving a dog loose unattended so he'll wind up crated eventually.

Big milestone this morning. He went out the doggy door by himself. Before he was too clingy to go outside without me. I think by the time my classes start he'll have relaxed enough to leave for 4 hours a day. He'll get a nice long walk before I leave too.

I knew just by glancing at them that his nails were too long but I didn't realize exactly how overgrown they were until I cut off nearly a half inch from one of them. They're really brittle too. The cut off part just shatters. Fish oil and keeping them short helps with that right?

His stool is harder and less smelly on his new food already. First time he pooped you could smell it from across the yard.

 Quote: Tresa Hendrix

The thing about not leaving him in a crate probably has more to do with how he was managed...in other words, you'll do a better job ;-)

There's probably a lot of truth in that. The owner during his crate biting incident was just about the most opposite from a pack leader that you could find. Very high pitched soft speech, no boundaries set. Very nice woman, just not an assertive bone in her body.