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Originally Posted by Sunnie  OK so I am going to probably get negativity from this, but I do not agree with everyone else. I do not know if your BF was rough with Oliver and I hope he was NOT, but the important thing is that it is NEVER ok for them to bite. Yes, he had a rough life, and yes he needs time to adjust.. but blaming it on the BF is unfair. And honestly, BF is correct if he blamed it on you (who trains him). YOU are the one responsible to teach him not to bite. As much as you do not want to discipline him, it is doing him a disservice if you do not correct him. I would sit down with the BF and talk to him about being more patient and also about standing by you while you are training Oliver. It is so much easier to work together than to battle about it. Poor baby is probably already so confused and everyone needs to work together patiently to help him over come these issues. |
I don't think anyone was saying that it was acceptable for him to be biting the boyfriend. However, if there's a stranger in a dog's territory and he grabs the dog and startles it from behind, thwen I'm not shocked at all from it's behavior. It's a case of both Oliver and the boyfriend needing to be trained. Oliver not to bite, and the boyfriend to not grab at dogs.
I don't know if it's quite fair to blame the owner for this either. Yes, it is her responsibility to make sure Oliver is not going around biting random people, however common sense tells me that if someone says that they're dog is from
a rescue type situation, I know that not starling it, letting he or she get use to me and my scent, and trying two gain his or her trust would be the foundation of our relationship. Not simply just grabbing at him from behind demanding he shut up.
Training I think needs to be both ways in this case and not simply blamed on the owner.