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Cheeto is doing well, just life in general has been a little overwhelming. Thank you Rene for checking in on us:-) Condensed version is at a time when I thought I was finally going to be able to stop and smell the roses, my cousin died and I am now guardian of her son Charles. Charles is 43, 6'4, 250lbs with Aspergers, Paranoid schizophrenia and since he has been with us has been diagnosed with advanced cirrhosis of the liver. He is very childlike although his iq is off the charts. Caring for him is a full time job so I am not able to work (which I really need to ). Anyway just been a little overwhelmed but the light at the end of the tunnell is visible!
On to Cheeto. I rescued him off a highway in November and he had surgery in April. He had never shown one sign of aggression was very submissive to humans and other dogs(well he does chase cats lol) Since the surgery he barks loudly at men he does not know and even puts his mouth on them (but does not bite) This is disturbing because he could seriously cause damage if he decided to. Any advice?
Oh my! I am not sure what I would do. How is Cheetos with Charles? This is a longshot but I have heard of dogs being trained as service dogs for Aspergers patients. Perhaps they could help each other.
Anyway- we are thinking of you and sending you a big sloppy dalmatian kiss.
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I'm so glad you stopped by to check in, I know how overwhelmed you must be and hope that we can be a place of refuge for you as you learn to cope with the new normal at your house.
Well, to me it sounds like Cheeto is attempting to assert himself and be dominant. If he's just being mouthy, maybe it's just an indication of the training he never received when he was a puppy. Our Wyatt was the same way, it took many months of teaching him that wrapping his jaws around someone's hand was NOT cool, but he finally got it. The trick is to 1) not let people approach him with hands out, and 2) if he does start to get mouthy, we immediately extract him from the encounter and point him in another direction. Then we reapproach slowly until he calms down enough to sit and be petted.
Ask yourself if there are any similarities among the encounters you experience when he does this. Is he wildly excited? Are the humans wildly excited? Obviously if it's only men then he was mistreated by one somewhere down teh road. It'll be a tough job getting him to trust them again but it CAN be done. It's all about timing and making sure you and he don't encounter the same situation again and again without correcting his behavior.
Hope this makes sense. How is the Halti harness working out?
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What I have noticed is the four monkeybutts he spends his day with are all hyper little ankle biters who get completely crazy when we have company and he feeds off of their energy. If I hold and stroke him slowly while taking some deep breathes his energy will come in to line with mine. Funny I used to be the trainer that was the go to girl for aggressive dogs but when it is one of mine I just seem to forget everything I knew.
We have not been (I am embarrassed to say) on one single walk. I have started teaching obedience classes and one of my clients has a pug/weine dog named LuLu and we are going to start walking. If you think of anything else let me know.
Oh! So sorry to hear about your cousin. You have a lot on your plate. What a nice gesture to take in her son.
Speaking of walking...I wanted to make sure you got the Halti collar?
Comet - 1999 to 2011
She departed us unexpectedly January 23, 2011 at the age of 12 1/2.
She was born with a deformed front leg and a tripawd all of her life.
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