Well, guys, this past Friday, Rebel dug out of our backyard. I was very fortunate to find him. A lady that lived on the street behind us had him. Friday morning, she went to a garage sale up the street and saw Rebel running down the side walk. After much coaxing, she got him to come to her where she took him home, bathe him and crated him till I could come get him...actually, she was taking a bath when I called so I had to wait till she was finished. I offered her a reward which she refused to take. Bless her for all that she did and for being honest.
Anyway, when I brought him home, I crated him (for 2 hours) and noticed that he wasn't the same ole Rebel that I knew. Well, we went to my mom's for the weekend and left shortly after I got home from work. Loading up 2 kids, 2 dogs, 2 puppies plus all of our bags was quite a chore.
Well, shortly after we got to my mom's house, I noticed that he was growling at everyone and everything. I picked him up to see if anything was wrong with him and he tried to bite me. I settled him down, checked him good all over and didn't see anything. Checked his legs, etc and everything was fine. He tried biting the puppies so I had to keep them in a seperate room of the house. Picked him up on a second occasion and he tried to bite me again. Tried to bite the kids and was just not his normal self.
We went to bed Friday night and on Saturday, he was better but really just didn't like the puppies which is strange because he always played with them. He no longer tried to bite us but would just growl at the pups and stayed glued to my mom's maltese's side. She has been spayed so it wasn't like she was in heat.
Well, today, everything was fine. Rebel was his old self until it got time to leave. For whatever reason, he got extremely aggrivated, tried to bite one of the puppies and them peed right on the tile floor. He had not done this at all this weekend but it seemed to be more out of defiance to me than anything else.
Talked it over with mom and she said she'd keep him this week and bring him back home on Sunday. We thought that maybe Rebel needed a break from us. I just hope that we didn't make a bad decision.
Hubby is going to extend the electric wire down the fence line that he's dug out of. The ground is very soft there since that part of the fence was replaced this past year.
What do you think? Do you think that he just needed a break? I keep thinking that while he was out, people might have chased him and that traumatized him. Told hubby what was going on (since he didn't go with us) and he's at a loss too.
