NewbieBoobie
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Hi all! I’m new to the forum so please excuse any lack of etiquette!
My family have had our dog (Lurcher/Akita) for just over a year now, he will be 2 in January! We adopted him from a shelter when he was 3 months old and very little was known about where he came from (The family that surrendered him had bought him when he was 5/6 weeks old from a breeder which they would not / could not name).
Now our beautiful boy hasn’t an aggressive bone in his body (he had a case of lacking bite inhibition and excessive mouthing at first but that was trained out easily) however he is extremely over excitable and will excessively bark / pull towards other dogs in the street to the point where we have paid ridiculous amounts of money to behaviourists and trainers and no methods have worked to curb this behaviour.
We know this behaviour is because of unsocialisation, and unfortunately we have no friends or family with dogs that he could meet with, therefore we have begun considering whether another dog in the household would benefit him?
Of course this is a very big decision and we worry that he might just stay the same or even make him worse!
Sorry for the lengthy post! I just hoped that I could gather some opinions!
Thankyou!
My family have had our dog (Lurcher/Akita) for just over a year now, he will be 2 in January! We adopted him from a shelter when he was 3 months old and very little was known about where he came from (The family that surrendered him had bought him when he was 5/6 weeks old from a breeder which they would not / could not name).
Now our beautiful boy hasn’t an aggressive bone in his body (he had a case of lacking bite inhibition and excessive mouthing at first but that was trained out easily) however he is extremely over excitable and will excessively bark / pull towards other dogs in the street to the point where we have paid ridiculous amounts of money to behaviourists and trainers and no methods have worked to curb this behaviour.
We know this behaviour is because of unsocialisation, and unfortunately we have no friends or family with dogs that he could meet with, therefore we have begun considering whether another dog in the household would benefit him?
Of course this is a very big decision and we worry that he might just stay the same or even make him worse!
Sorry for the lengthy post! I just hoped that I could gather some opinions!
Thankyou!