u/abbeyiskewl2

I’m not sure who all saw my post earlier (I’ve deleted it since) debating on what to do. I finally reached out to a shelter 3.5 hours away that had a great reputation in my state for working with aggressive dogs and they said they would take her. My heart is broken and I’m seriously second guessing everything and can’t stop thinking that we failed her. I hope they are able to work with her and I’m grateful that they really listened to me about her faults and I don’t need to be concerned about them sending her off to the first person who shows interest. We wrote them a hefty check to get her spayed and up to date on shots plus to help with food and what not. My house feels empty but I know the safety of my daughter, my pets, and my pregnant self are worth it. I don’t know what the purpose of this post really is, I think it’s just being depressed. But I do really appreciate all of the kindness and tough love I received earlier.

I honestly don’t even know what I’m looking for here. Yesterday my 2 year old pit bull, Dolly, attacked my other pit bull, Macie. Macie was literally just laying on the floor when Dolly went after her. There wasn’t any food around, no toys, no obvious trigger that I could see. Within seconds our two other dogs jumped into the fight too. I somehow got the other two dogs separated and kenneled, but Dolly and Macie were still going at it. I’m 7 months pregnant and my toddler was asleep upstairs the entire time. I was screaming, dumping pitchers of water on them, and eventually dragging out the vacuum because I was running out of ideas and needed it to stop. When I finally got them apart, Macie was laying on the floor not moving. I genuinely thought she was dead. While I was trying to get to her and figure out if she was even alive, Dolly was still so worked up that she was snapping at me. We rushed Macie to the vet and she ended up having to be sedated so they could properly clean and assess all of her wounds. This isn’t the first fight Dolly has started. It’s just the first one that’s ever been this bad. For months I’ve been asking my husband if we could do something before it got to this point. I’ve asked about getting a trainer involved, getting Dolly spayed, sending her to a behavior program, literally anything. None of it happened. Now that this attack has happened, my husband wants to pursue training and behavior work, but I feel like I’m past that point.

I know this is emotional because it literally just happened yesterday and im hormonal, but I don’t feel safe with her in my house anymore. I don’t feel comfortable having her around my other dogs, my toddler, or a newborn in a couple months. I keep replaying everything in my head and I don’t trust her anymore. My husband keeps saying he feels like we failed her. But I also feel like keeping her here after what happened is failing Macie and putting the rest of my family at risk.

So I guess my question is: what would you do? If this were your dog, would you pursue training at this point, or would you be looking at rehoming/surrendering? Am I overreacting because everything is still so fresh?