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Originally Posted by AlicetheYorkie  Your partialy right, she can't just give the dog away to just anyone, it needs to go to a rescue organization that has highly skilled trainers who know how to rehabilitate a dog like this. Simply re-homing is not going to help, you're right, but niether the dog, the OP or the other two dogs in this house can go on living this way. Behavior this bad from a dog indicates SEVERE insecurity. Although I do commend the OP for keeping the dog as long as she has and not giving up on her, she's not doing her any justice by just carrying on the way she is. Of course I can't be positive since I've never met either the dog or the OP, but just from reading her post and the emotion and frustration she has about the situation, she's not in a state of mind to be able to "fix" this dog unless someone who REALLY knows what they're doing comes into the home to help. This isn't normal behavior, this dog is STRESSED every single second of every day, staying where he is in the state of mind he's in is not what's best for him (or the OP or her other dogs), but you are right, simply going to a new home won't fix the problem. |
I totally agree!
My suggestion for all involved is to find a GREAT trainer that you can either do inboard training or you can surrender her to for proper training. Resource guarding many times cannot be "cured" but it can be address and managed. It sounds like your are very stressed and the stress if tumbling over to impeded your issues at hand. Using teethering, muzzling and air horns
will never even begin to address Dixie Cup's issues and as you can see have only caused more unwanted behaviors on her part. This entire situation and cycle needs to be broken.
As for the timing out issues, that is not an issue with YT but is on the OPers end. You must have some type of setting where you do not stay logged in to the site after a set amount of time. It's never happens to me and something I've been known to walk away from a post and come back hours later to find that I never hit submit
