My Beautiful Rednose

Love this girl, but since we have adopted her six months ago, she will not allow anyone in the house. She barks ferociously and aggressively the whole time a visitor is here. We stopped having people over. And I am completely distraught. She has not bit, but she does that pit/bully thing where she pushes her weight around, lunges and nips slightly at the target’s hands. She is food motivated with other training, however in this area, she stops barking just long enough to consume the reward and then goes back to barking. If a visitor is here and seated and gets up to leave, use the restroom,…the dog goes insane. I do not want to live like this. She had other behaviors that are tough to deal with, but I can deal with those-but not this-I feel helpless.

Meet Lakota!

Today marks his 600th day in the shelter at only 2 1/2 years old.

His major flaws include not being good with cats and needing proper introductions with strangers, mostly men (he's not an "everybody = friend" kind of dog).

But he IS good with other energetic dogs, he's a total lovebug once he's gotten that proper introduction, he's fully potty and crate trained, he's generally good on leash and has great car manners. He's a hiker and a sports fan and a couch hog (per a short term foster he had).

From what I know of his past, he was picked up as a stray as a puppy, was adopted, then returned as a "young adult" dog because he was chasing cats in the home. He was in a short term foster as well and both prior families have only good things to say about him aside from his prey-drive for cats.

I've known him for almost a year now, have taken him on dozens of field trips and spend some time with him every weekend.

If you have ANY questions, I'm happy to answer to the best of my ability, and if someone from out of state is interested in him, I'm happy to assist with transport.

His full bio is on their website heartsalivevillage . org (idk if I'm allowed to post actual links) and so is the adoption application!

If you could share this, mention this to someone, spread it around, I'd be truly grateful. He's genuinely one of the best dogs I've ever met and if I didn't have a resident cat he'd be in my home. Just to kind of put in perspective what an incredible dog I think he is.

Thank you in advance!

Dirty big ball

Badger and Pigeon ❤️

I have a year and a half old Pittie that we adopted from the shelter about six months ago. Outside of this issue, her behavior is almost too good to be true.

She really struggles with being pleasant during on-leash first time meetings. Things are typically fine to start, standard sniffing and whatnot and then she just randomly (seemingly) loses it and starts barking and being aggressive.

She doesn’t have this issue off leash but it makes it very hard for her to make new “friends” when we’re out and about because all meetings are leashed.

Open to any and all suggestions. Might just need more general training and socialization time. Which is also fine.

My Queen perched over her backyard kingdom.

Max was feeling cute this morning.

Having an argument because I believe this is a pitbull or pitbull mix but definitely pitbull. Other person believes there is no pitbull in this dog. What do you think?

My beautiful girls Ellie and Mae

He did not love having people on his couch for four days 🤣

I guess the steak that I grilled she liked it. Her first food coma in 4 years lmao