---- Hello all I Have a question, my 2yr old unaltered male german shepherd has just recently started to become aggressive with a 19 yr old male that has recently moved into the house, long story short wife has owned the home since he was a child, he got into drugs has been clean for a year needed a place to live & wife being the kind soul she is took him in. He is also a friend of our 17yr old & 13yr old. Anyway Sergeant has gone after him Twice, both times I was at work, the 1st time all the kids said the Sarge just went after him for no reason (I find that hard to believe) he nipped him, no k9 teeth just the teeth between his k9s, he broke skin but looked like a scrape not deep at all wound was smaller than a 25 cent coin. Well this morning I'm at work & wife said he went after same kid again, he has never showed aggression like this before, he is fine letting strangers into house ( window & carpet sales guys on 2 different occasions) I was home both times & told Sarge it's ok be nice before they came in he was fine & acted like a big baby wanting to be pet & played with.
I told my wife I do not believe Sarge went after kid for no reason, something don't add up to me. This morning wife told me kid accidentally stepped on Sarge & he went after him. Since the kid moved in he is not allowed home alone, wife won't allow it, when she leaves for work she takes him to library till kids are home from school or I'm home.
Why do you guys think Sergeant started doing this all of a sudden? -----
So it appears that the step dad has some say in what goes on in his wife's home, but it is a difficult problem to solve all around obviously. What I don't get is that there seems to be about 99% of the people replying to this as "trust the dog, get rid of the kid!" I gotta say I am a bit appalled that so many people would ditch the kid without even attempting to get to the bottom of the problem and looking for a way to resolve the issues to where EVERYONE can stay at home. I mean, can anyone really live with "My step dad chose the dog over me." I am not saying ditch the dog, but I am just a bit surprised at how many people would say to get rid of the kid. Like that should be the first option before even trying to work through the problems!
re-reading this again, it appears I misunderstood. The kid is NOT the son of the wife, but just a friend of one of the kids. So I guess this changes things?
Dogs have a much better understanding of people than we do.
Just Wednesday, Monster got a basket sat on a foot and he bit at the basket out of reaction to pain.
I think, it's probably time for the 19 yr old to move on.
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re-reading this again, it appears I misunderstood. The kid is NOT the son of the wife, but just a friend of one of the kids. So I guess this changes things?
Yep. He's not family. And personally, I'm with the "trust the dog" group. One of the reasons you have a german sheppard is for protection - why wouldn't you pay attention to what the dog is telling you if the dog has never been out of line before?
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I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you.
Well, most dogs "never bite' until they do. So, even if he is some Ahole, the dog should not be biting anyone and a dog that bites people needs to be put down.
But, would you really bring some barely clean addict into your home with your teenage sons? That seems really, really stupid.
Could be because a new male has moved in and the dog is showing he is the alpha male. We had a whole group of young teen males stay the weekend at our house and my male dog went into the basement where they were staying and peed on their sleeping bags.
