Re: [pyrnet] Fw: [animalrescuers] Spokane, WA Urg List

[Katie Allison Granju <kgranju@yahoo.com>]

--- merrirfave@icehouse.net wrote:


> HE IS SCARED!!!! COMPLETELY AFRAID!! If I had been in the same
> situation... I might have done the same things he did.  When we got
> him outside by the end of 2 hours he was completely different. He can
> sit on command, he can fetch a ball, and he went # 2 out in the yard
> pen...my kids played with him, and loved him, and he returned the
> love. The fact is he didn't bite me when I pulled him out of the
> kennel, and that is all I needed to know to realize he was not an
> aggressive Pyr.


Merri, you simply cannot mean this. That's *all* you need to know to be
sure he isn't potentially aggressive? I hope that you are right.

A few months ago I fostered a very sweet American Bulldog (via their
national organization). He was very sweet with me and as I cautiously
let him spend time (on a leash) with my three children, he seemed fine.
The trained rescue people chose a placement for him and he went there.
It was a home with a minister father, a social worker wife and two
elementary age kids. They had a newf and were quite dog savvy. Three
weeks later he attacked the six year old and bit his ankle. The father
pulled him off. 

Even with careful protocols, this can happen. So imagine how much MORE
likely it is to happen when rescue is handled in a haphazard way.

Katie

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