Rescue Dog Dilemma
Discussion
Good on you for rescuing a dog.
Stick with it, try to see the funny side & it will reduce your stress levels, the dog will pick up on those.
Our terrier (Westie) lived with cats his whole life until we lost him 3 weeks ago so it's not a flat no.
Good luck, I agree with posters above, he needs walking for exercise & stumulation but FFS don't let him off the lead for a few weeks!
Stick with it, try to see the funny side & it will reduce your stress levels, the dog will pick up on those.
Our terrier (Westie) lived with cats his whole life until we lost him 3 weeks ago so it's not a flat no.
Good luck, I agree with posters above, he needs walking for exercise & stumulation but FFS don't let him off the lead for a few weeks!
LordHaveMurci said:
Good on you for rescuing a dog.
Stick with it, try to see the funny side & it will reduce your stress levels, the dog will pick up on those.
Our terrier (Westie) lived with cats his whole life until we lost him 3 weeks ago so it's not a flat no.
Good luck, I agree with posters above, he needs walking for exercise & stumulation but FFS don't let him off the lead for a few weeks!
You already posted that at 20:37 Stick with it, try to see the funny side & it will reduce your stress levels, the dog will pick up on those.
Our terrier (Westie) lived with cats his whole life until we lost him 3 weeks ago so it's not a flat no.
Good luck, I agree with posters above, he needs walking for exercise & stumulation but FFS don't let him off the lead for a few weeks!
I havent't read all of the previous, BUT I'm now on rescue no 3. First one was a very large Cairn Terrier. He had a thing about protecting his owners from any large dog. I;d suspect that he'd had a nasty with something like a Staffie and owners took fright, not knowing that he was capable of standing his ground. Ever after he'd decided that he had to protect owner from any large dog. It took a lot of work, but eventually he got to stop and check out dogs.
We took on a Tibetan Terrier a few years ago - he was full of energy when we first got him, charging around the house, would get upset when you left the room or went upstairs, would insist on sitting on you all of the time.
He's calmed down loads now - he'll come up on the sofa for a cuddle when invited but will get off once he's had enough or is too warm.
He can be a lazy bugger though, especially of the weather is bad but I tend to subscribe to the approach that a tired dog is a happy dog so he gets three or four long walks a week and shorter ones the rest of the time. He has to be walked twice a day because he doesn't seem to like using the garden as a toilet.
Good luck with him - it'll take a while but he'll settle down.
He's calmed down loads now - he'll come up on the sofa for a cuddle when invited but will get off once he's had enough or is too warm.
He can be a lazy bugger though, especially of the weather is bad but I tend to subscribe to the approach that a tired dog is a happy dog so he gets three or four long walks a week and shorter ones the rest of the time. He has to be walked twice a day because he doesn't seem to like using the garden as a toilet.
Good luck with him - it'll take a while but he'll settle down.
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