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Hi everyone,

We have an almost 2 year old mastiff/boxer mix that we’ve been fostering for almost a year now. We love her to death, and she has grown into a very playful dog after a pretty spotty history.

She’s a very anxious dog, usually peeing at the sight of a stranger in the house, or hesitant with certain commands. She’s gotten significantly better through exposure and time, and she seems overall much calmer.

I’ve started noticing a red flag though, and I want to get some opinions.

We usually leave our bedroom open to our dogs (we have two others, three total) and they usually like to run in and play on our bed. We allow it, as we don’t have a lot of space and this lets them get a little bit of extra zoomies out when they’re playing.

This usually leads to us letting them chill on our bed, which eventually leads to them falling asleep on our bed if we’re not around or if my partner allows.

These are big dogs though, so we usually only let our dog sleep on the bed with us, and kick our two fosters off to sleep in the living room.

Lately though, our boxer/mastiff has been resistant to leaving the bedroom. She has growled at me before when trying to nudge her off the bed, and now she’ll either run to our other dogs kennel in the room, or to a corner. This evening, she growled when I tried nudging her out of the kennel, then completely stopped listening to any command/treat to leave the room entirely.

Admittedly, we haven’t taken the time to properly train our fosters. We didn’t expect to have 3 dogs, and the 3rd was pushed onto us after an adoption family fell through. This means individual time with each dog has been shortened, and made it more difficult to separate the dogs or find the time to give each of them proper training.

For the issue with the resource guarding of the room, what steps should we start taking to nip this problem in the bud? Do we cut the room off entirely? I’m sure the bed should get cut off, but does this rule need to apply to all the dogs? Any advice helps, I’d be happy to answer any questions.

Tl;dr : dog is growling at us when asked to get off bed and leave the room, and I’m not sure where to begin training out this kind of behavior.

Hi everyone,

We have an almost 2 year old mastiff/boxer mix that we’ve been fostering for almost a year now. We love her to death, and she has grown into a very playful dog after a pretty spotty history.

She’s a very anxious dog, usually peeing at the sight of a stranger in the house, or hesitant with certain commands. She’s gotten significantly better through exposure and time, and she seems overall much calmer.

I’ve started noticing a red flag though, and I want to get some opinions.

We usually leave our bedroom open to our dogs (we have two others, three total) and they usually like to run in and play on our bed. We allow it, as we don’t have a lot of space and this lets them get a little bit of extra zoomies out when they’re playing.

This usually leads to us letting them chill on our bed, which eventually leads to them falling asleep on our bed if we’re not around or if my partner allows.

These are big dogs though, so we usually only let our dog sleep on the bed with us, and kick our two fosters off to sleep in the living room.

Lately though, our boxer/mastiff has been resistant to leaving the bedroom. She has growled at me before when trying to nudge her off the bed, and now she’ll either run to our other dogs kennel in the room, or to a corner. This evening, she growled when I tried nudging her out of the kennel, then completely stopped listening to any command/treat to leave the room entirely.

Admittedly, we haven’t taken the time to properly train our fosters. We didn’t expect to have 3 dogs, and the 3rd was pushed onto us after an adoption family fell through. This means individual time with each dog has been shortened, and made it more difficult to separate the dogs or find the time to give each of them proper training.

For the issue with the resource guarding of the room, what steps should we start taking to nip this problem in the bud? Do we cut the room off entirely? I’m sure the bed should get cut off, but does this rule need to apply to all the dogs? Any advice helps, I’d be happy to answer any questions.

Tl;dr : dog is growling at us when asked to get off bed and leave the room, and I’m not sure where to begin training out this kind of behavior.

Hi everyone,

We have an almost 2 year old mastiff/boxer mix that we’ve been fostering for almost a year now. We love her to death, and she has grown into a very playful dog after a pretty spotty history.

She’s a very anxious dog, usually peeing at the sight of a stranger in the house, or hesitant with certain commands. She’s gotten significantly better through exposure and time, and she seems overall much calmer.

I’ve started noticing a red flag though, and I want to get some opinions.

We usually leave our bedroom open to our dogs (we have two others, three total) and they usually like to run in and play on our bed. We allow it, as we don’t have a lot of space and this lets them get a little bit of extra zoomies out when they’re playing.

This usually leads to us letting them chill on our bed, which eventually leads to them falling asleep on our bed if we’re not around or if my partner allows.

These are big dogs though, so we usually only let our dog sleep on the bed with us, and kick our two fosters off to sleep in the living room.

Lately though, our boxer/mastiff has been resistant to leaving the bedroom. She has growled at me before when trying to nudge her off the bed, and now she’ll either run to our other dogs kennel in the room, or to a corner. This evening, she growled when I tried nudging her out of the kennel, then completely stopped listening to any command/treat to leave the room entirely.

Admittedly, we haven’t taken the time to properly train our fosters. We didn’t expect to have 3 dogs, and the 3rd was pushed onto us after an adoption family fell through. This means individual time with each dog has been shortened, and made it more difficult to separate the dogs or find the time to give each of them proper training.

For the issue with the resource guarding of the room, what steps should we start taking to nip this problem in the bud? Do we cut the room off entirely? I’m sure the bed should get cut off, but does this rule need to apply to all the dogs? Any advice helps, I’d be happy to answer any questions.

Tl;dr : dog is growling at us when asked to get off bed and leave the room, and I’m not sure where to begin training out this kind of behavior.

Hey all, I will first admit that I made the bonehead mistake of accepting an electric vehicle as a rental substitute, having no knowledge of EV or the charging infrastructure of our destination. This is a huge mistake on my part, but now I’m looking for solutions.

We are traveling from Springfield, MO to Big Bend, Texas. We rented from Avis a Nissan Altima, but instead they only had a 2024 Kia Nero EV available. I accepted, oblivious to the turmoil and anxiety this decision would have on our trip.

So far, we’ve made it 2.5 hours out of the entire 13 hour drive. We’ve only been able to find slow charging stations (we did not know there was a difference in charging stations, let alone the time difference).

The best we’ve found is a 50kW charging station, but I believe this will still take us 2 hours to get to a full charge. We are only taking this trip for the two days, and we’re supposed to drive back the entirety of the last day so we can make it back home for work on Monday.

With just the additional charging time, we’re looking at roughly another 15 hours of just charging, which quite honestly doesn’t seem feasible for such a short duration of a trip.

Has anyone had any luck with swapping EV rentals for gas with Avis? Are we missing something here? We’ve found EVGos but none of the power cords go to our EV.

We’re pretty stuck right now, and starting to lose hope on this trip overall.