Re: [pyrnet] Resource guarding or aggression?

["Amy Bailey" <newbailey@comcast.net>]

Let me see if I have the chronology right---

5 week old puppy placed with someone.
after about one year, someone gives dog to a new home with two small
children,
after 24 hours in new home, new people, new expectations. dog is given a
bone.
a child who is smaller than the dog appears to reach for bone.
dog bites what appears to him to be a rival for his food
dog is now in danger of death.


 The dog is at a teenager stage, probably the most difficult pyr age for
testing authority, is challenged by an apparantly lower status animal.  The
dog is confused in a new home, probably overhandled because if the new
people want the dog, how could they resist cuddling him?  Given a tasty bone
(was it a real bone with meat on it??  In my experience, this is
particularly dangerous), but maybe it will be taken away by a rival?  My
goodness, I would bite under these circumstances !!  I would guess that
nearly any dog would.

This dog could have done well if people gave him a chance to adjust and
trained both the dog and the children to respect each other.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Liz Caldwell" <lcaldwel@grapevine.net>
To: <pyrnet-l@pyrnet.org>
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 1:15 AM
Subject: [pyrnet] Resource guarding or aggression?


> A woman on another breed list has asked for help -- she works with Animal
> Control in the east and needs some advice on dealing with a Pyr or Pyr
> cross that has just some into the pound. My experience is limited, so any
> advice that can be offered would be appreciated.
>
> Liz Caldwell
> Lawrence, KS
>
> >   I have a Pyr (was told a Sammy cross, but he looks a lot like a pyr)
> >that is in the pound for biting a 5 year old.  Actually, he had been
> >re-homed less than 24 hours earlier and was given a bone, which he was
> >protecting at the time.  More than likely, I will have to euthanize him,
> >but I would like to know from other pyr members if this is something that
> >would be within "norm" behavior for this breed.  This dog is only just a
> >year old and he was placed WAY to early to begin with at only 5 weeks of
> >age (puppy mill in TX?).  The owner, who got him from TX, placed the dog
> >in a home with 2 young children but I would be willing to bet that it is
> >likely that he would have done well in either a working home and/or an
> >adult only home.  He seems like a sweetheart, which makes this really
> >difficult.
> >
>
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