09.15.06
Little Grumpy Dogs - here is a great example
The only reason there are little grumpy dogs is PEOPLE! People make the little grumpy dogs. People should be ashamed. Here is a great example - an email I received today: My wife and I have a 7 1/2 year old Lhasa Apso named Coco. Recently Coco bit my wife severely as my wife tried to make Coco come back in the house by swatting her on the hindquarters with a magazine. A week before that, Coco bit my wife on the foot when she accidentally stepped on Coco at night. We love Coco dearly but believe we needed to remove her from our household. We were planning to have her euthanized but learned of your organization. We would like to enter Coco into your organization for a second chance. She will have all her shots and will be recently checked for heartworms. She is a beautiful tan Lhasa and is very loving and quite protective as many Lhasa’s are. I would be happy to contribute for any costs to allow Coco to have a second chance. Now, what is wrong with this picture? Lady tries to whack the dog with a magazine, the dog tries to protect herself and the people are ready to send the dog off to die! Unbelievably irresponsible pet ownership!
Linda Harrington said,
November 16, 2006 at 3:58 pm
Teresa,
I hope you took this dog. It doesn’t sound like a bad dog…just a bad match. I can’t necessarily fault these folk, they are naive and uneducated. They treat this dog like I’ve known others to do. But with that breed, as with my Chow, you can’t treat a Lhasa this way. It was a poor match. Most dog owners don’t know that Rescues even exist. And putting it to sleep is a whole lot more respondsible than dumping it out in the county as coyote bait. It is irrespondsible dog ownership for sure, but the world just isn’t that educated. We always try to stess these things in our obedience classes but you only reach so many dog owners a year. And more than that are dumped every day. I should know. My two Tzu are rescues and I just picked up what I’m pretty sure is a Lhasa at the Odessa pound this last Monday. I’m going to try and get an ILP number from AKC for her. She’s a genius. She’ll be great in agility
take care
Linda
Laura said,
November 14, 2007 at 11:30 am
I have a 1 year old lhaso as well and just love him to pieces. He is also very grumpy and protective when he is tired mostly after 8pm at night. Not sure if there is any way to help handle that? He protects the couch , my husband and all of his toys from our other black lab. So he jumps off of the couch has a big fit everytime the other dog moves. Any suggestions about how we should react? We have tried saying no firmly, giving him time outs etc and it seems to be getting worse. Can anyone help?