[candybaby]

Originally Posted by Lola Calhoun

Thankfully I havent had this problem with Lola, she has never been aggressive, unless you count her biting me & my boyfriend, but she's teething & when we say stop, she stops. but when I was growing up my parents had a rotweiller, named Coco, who was never agressive to myself or my older brother <at the time I was probably 3 and he was 5> even though she was 4 times our size. but when it came to strangers, she would let them have it. I assume it was because she was just being protective of me & my brother, but she would growl at babysitters, and when my parents ordered pizza one night, Coco wouldnt even let the pizza guy out of his car! she would bark like a maniac. She never bit anyone, but my parents figured that she might snap at one of us one day, so they found a loving home for her where there was less risk of something possibly hapenening....My friend had a Doberman for 5 years and she was the sweetest thing, never barked at anyone, but she recently had a baby, and all the sudden her dog started snapping at anyone who came near the baby, and they didn't want to take any chances, so they also found a home for her...I think you have to weigh your options, whether you want to keep your dog, or risk something happening to your children...and if you aren't sure that nothing will happen, you probably should find someone to care for your pet, there are plenty of people out there that will adopt an agressive dog & work with it to better socialize them.

Please let me know who will take an aggressive dog. My yorkies are fine but I have a Dachshund and he is very aggressive and nobody will take him especially, the shelters. They do behavorial tests on them and if they don't pass they cannot take them, obviously. Where ever you know how to find a person that will take him let me know because I have looked EVERYWHERE.