Quote Originally Posted by QCKLime
I've owned dogs my entire life, Jack, and I work with them daily. I've been fostering "special needs" dogs since I was a teenager, and dealing professionally with rehabilitating them since I started working full time at 19. My career with dogs didn't start with my involvement in game dogs, I have loads of experience and perspective.

This is just my OP but in my years of dealing with this breed of dog and many other breeds I do not think/feel rehabilitating is something a dog needs to go thru. Rehabilitation is something based on HUMAN needs and not animal needs.

I do Schutzhund/IPO with my dogs and I do not deal with HA at all. I deal with clear headed animals that can see a threat and address it. I had a litter a little over 2 years ago and put two young adults down because they had issues. I do not deal with fearbased aggression nor shy dogs and all out aggression to humans.

Fear based aggression is developed when you have a shy dog that oneday growls because someone was about to touch or approach it but instead once the dog growls the person backs off. Kinda like kids ina playground or grown men shit talking/selling wolf tickets to get someone to leave them alone. So this bring them to the point where they have learned that they can give this reaction to keep people away. People asked me "why did you put them down?" Why would I place my problems on someone else is my question to them.

So anyway HA in anyform is not good in and you can put all of the bandaids/rehabilitation on it that you want but as soon as it get's wet it will peel off and show it's ugly head and make headlines again. Then we all suffer.

quick story: Had a friend with two really nice bred males that looked great standing on their chain spots. BUT they showed Human aggression issues. SO me being the bitework guy I look at them in the eyes and say to him they are punks who have learned to back people off with barks and growls . He was hell no thet dog will bite you.

I put on my sleeve and a leg sleeve and walked into the chain spot and the dogs ran into the dog houses. but when I turned my back they would come running out to nip at me. (bitch ass club punch)

He was shocked at what he saw. Yup school yard bullys who had someone stand up to them and they backed down.