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@tiernon Thank you for this. I’m going to speak to my work and see if they can help me find a good rescue to bring him to and continue working with him with general training until I can get him in. It would probably be better for my mental health to not worry about him attacking another stranger...

@tiernon I have definitely given up any hope of him being a service dog for me after this. He could still be a decent support animal in the sense that he would be motivation for me to actually leave the house instead of staying locked up inside all the time, but he certainly can’t be a service...

@adversa I know it’s a full term commitment. I drive 30 minutes each way on my lunch break to let him out and walk him and then drive the 30 minutes back to work so he isn’t stuck in his kennel. I adopted him because I need a psychiatric service dog. My anxiety and depression are debilitating. I...

Also, I have no history from before he was in the shelter. I adopted him through work since I work for a large vet hospital that does discounts for shelters to mass fix animals. When I met him, he was very quiet and calm in the kennel and was over all a very chill dog. I thought I’d be getting a...

Further information because I realized this reads like I’ve just thrown medication at him to solve the problem: he is trained and we are going to be taking more classes in May. Right now, he can sit, stay, lay down, roll over both directions, shake, say hello, sit pretty, touch, give it, leave...

Copying and pasting my post from r/petadvice I adopted my dog November 11, 2021 after I lost my previous dog at the end of May a week before he turned 12. My new dog is a hound mix of some sort and was about a year old when I adopted him and was able to be socialized fairly well during the...