Rehoming Angus
NOTE: I hope it’s okay I posted this. I copy and pasted this from the post I made on the FB page for rehoming pets. I like their template at the bottom and felt it might be good info for anyone interested. But this is my post; just mentioning in case anyone recognizes it and thinks it’s odd.
Good morning friends,
We have thought a lot about this, and are making the tough decision of rehoming our 2yo Dane / Pitt mix, Angus.
We found Angus on the side of the road as a puppy where his owner lived in a trailer with a dog hoarding situation, and the owner tossed him over the fence into my arms when I questioned him on why his dogs were in the street on a back country road cars often fly down.
He is a great dog, but since becoming pregnant and having our first child, he has become very protective and guarding of our child and of us toward our other two dogs, who are older and are generally very non-confrontational.
He has never showed any resource guarding toward myself, my spouse, or our now 1yo; and does not display this behavior toward our spayed female, only our neutered 6yo male, who is much larger than him. We have tried separating, positive/negative reinforcement, etc, but Angus is by nature a protector and is an anxious dog.
He would do best in a home with only 1 other female, cats, or with no pets. He loves children and adores our son, and he is a big cuddler. He often will sit with our son during playtime and watch, or try to bring him toys even though our son is much too small to throw them yet. We have a fenced in acre of land at our home, and he does prefer having a dog door and has a habit of ‘patrolling’ at night; walking laps around the property.
We feel we have tried everything we could, and with us expecting another child & him coming into age at 2 yo, we are very uncomfortable with the idea of keeping him though we love him very much. We don’t think this behavior will get better and we worry it will get worse when our second born is here. He is genuinely a perfect dog around our female, and him and our other male have been neutered as early as they could’ve been, we think he may have something in his past that triggers this issue; or perhaps he just dislikes male dogs. But he is a very sweet, loyal, and intelligent dog and we feel he would do best in a much less stressful environment for him where he can just be Angus.
Feel free to reach out with any questions or concerns, and if you’re interested we’d love to meet you.
LOCATION OF PET: Macon
NAME: Angus
MALE OR FEMALE: Neutered Male
AGE OR DATE OF BIRTH: 2yo
BREED OR MIX: Great Dane / Pitt Mix
SPAYED OR NEUTERED: Yes
VACCINATED: Yes
GOOD WITH KIDS: Yes
GOOD WITH DOGS: Females only
GOOD WITH CATS: Yes, but he tries to play with them so would do best with a very tolerant cat.
KNOWS ANY COMMANDS: Sit, No, Off.
ARE YOU OPEN TO A RESCUE TAKING YOUR PET? Yes
REASON FOR REHOMING PET: See above
RF level: No fee, but we’d love to meet the potential adopter to talk more about angus with them.