It probably doesn't need to be written that I'm new to the forum. But yeah, lol. Anyways this is very serious, and before you/anyone wants to go off about not properly raising the dog etc, PLEASE just read the whole thing first.
My screen name is Ogre because that is what we named our dark blue/gray charcoal Cane Corso. He is not the dog I am writing this for help. He is a magnificent mini mastiff (He was the runt and still isn't very big as far as the breed goes, but that's okay, he's our mini mastiff)
I live in the middle of a small city with my boyfriend and now two year old son. We had two cats, two gerbils, and a toy pomeranian and a pomeranian mix. My bf then started working nights and I did NOT feel safe being alone with just my son. So I looked around and around and kept telling him I didn't feel safe and that I wanted a 'a big ugly scary dog' to protect us at night. I understand that I don't need to have an aggressive dog to scare a lot of petty thieves away. As long as it LOOKS and SOUNDS scary is all that is needed, but an actual protective dog was definitely a bonus!
I was telling this to my younger brothers best friend when they all came over for something or another. He then told me that his girlfriend's mom breeds the HUGE italian mastiff's and that she was giving a litter away for free. Well, I didn't know what the hell an italian mastiff was but I wasn't going to argue with the words MASTIFF and FREE. lol.
So I then looked it up and researched extensively about italian mastiff's, which I also found were better known as cane corso's (derr, but brothers friend is a dork) It sounded like a lot of work, but I was willing to try. The breeder told me that I had two weeks to research and she would quiz me before she would even give me a puppy! I was felt that she must really know her stuff so I agreed.
Fast forward to the day I get to pick my puppy (potentially, if I pass the test). They tell me to stand outside on the sidewalk so they can bring the dad of the litter outside to let me see him. My brothers friend was telling me how big this dog was. But I did NOT BELIEVE HIM! At all!!!! This dog is absolutely enormous! He looks as if he could take a great dane and pick his teeth with it! lol! When he barked I felt it through the ground and up my legs and he was almost 20 feet away. I was definitely terrorized, but at the same time, I was thinking I would love to have one of those protecting my baby.
They took the mom and the dad in to another room (for my protection. Scary? YES it was.)
There were three or four bouncing romping puppies that eagerly greeted me as I walked in to the room they were kept in. None really made me feel when I looked at them that they would make a good member of the family. Then I noticed the darkest colored one in the litter, also the smallest, just laying on his belly looking all sad with his head between his paws. What can I say? My mommy senses kicked in right away and I picked him up (he was barely two months old and 20 lbs!) and he rested his little head on my shoulder.
I was sold. There was no way I was leaving without that little pup haha.
The puppies already had their tails docked and their dewclaws removed and their first round of shots/first worming. But she was telling me that maybe I might not want the runt because he already had a hard start in life. He has an umbilical hernia (the breeder told me from the mom pulling the cord off too rough when he was born), he almost died from not having enough milk because the other puppies crowded him off the boob. So she had to bottle feed him some, then he almost died from the worms, got him through that, then he was just a touch skinny cause they crowded him away from the food. Poor little guy!!! I still wanted him haha
Anyways, that is now our Ogre. Or 'Oyer' as my two year old pronounces it lmao. More often though we call him the Ogie Yogi Bear. He still has problems now at 10 months old. He's not very big as the breed goes, as I already said, and he has terrible food sensitivity and dry skin. But he's still our big stinky Ogre.
Anyway my mom ended up getting another puppy from the litter. And now he, Blue, is VERY VERY AGGRESSIVE. He's fine for just her household but I can't even walk in without the dog barking and lunging at me. Well, okay, they're a protective breed I know and that's what attracted me to the pups in the first place.
I worked with Ogre every day. I talk him for walks in public all the time and at the stores. And when I have him outside on the leash I do not allow him to act aggressively to anyone that walks up or down the street. Needless to say anyone can come in to my house if I welcome them and Ogre is their best friend. But also at the same time if they get close to my son and he is unsure if they are safe or not he will silently stand in between them and my son until I tell him it's okay. Then he backs off and goes and lays down but still watches. I have no doubts that if someone did something to my son they wouldn't be walking back out of my house unharmed. He is also very protective of the house. If someone tries to walk in without me telling him they are okay he growls and will bark until they walk away or I tell him it's okay.
Blue on the other hand is the complete opposite. I just came to her house today and he tried to bite me, for no other reason other than I sat on the couch!? She keeps saying she's going to get rid of him, but no one is going to want him being that aggressive...And she just yells at me when I say she didn't properly raise him or socialize him. Well, she didn't. She didn't reprimand him for barking as a puppy when people walked in. She didn't take him anywhere. He just....I don't know what to do anymore. I don't want to go to my mom's house anymore or for my son to visit because I am afraid of her dog! I just need help and advice cause I am not sure what to do. I also don't want the dog attacking/killing someone and my mom going to jail just because her dog doesn't know when not to be this way!
My screen name is Ogre because that is what we named our dark blue/gray charcoal Cane Corso. He is not the dog I am writing this for help. He is a magnificent mini mastiff (He was the runt and still isn't very big as far as the breed goes, but that's okay, he's our mini mastiff)
I live in the middle of a small city with my boyfriend and now two year old son. We had two cats, two gerbils, and a toy pomeranian and a pomeranian mix. My bf then started working nights and I did NOT feel safe being alone with just my son. So I looked around and around and kept telling him I didn't feel safe and that I wanted a 'a big ugly scary dog' to protect us at night. I understand that I don't need to have an aggressive dog to scare a lot of petty thieves away. As long as it LOOKS and SOUNDS scary is all that is needed, but an actual protective dog was definitely a bonus!
I was telling this to my younger brothers best friend when they all came over for something or another. He then told me that his girlfriend's mom breeds the HUGE italian mastiff's and that she was giving a litter away for free. Well, I didn't know what the hell an italian mastiff was but I wasn't going to argue with the words MASTIFF and FREE. lol.
So I then looked it up and researched extensively about italian mastiff's, which I also found were better known as cane corso's (derr, but brothers friend is a dork) It sounded like a lot of work, but I was willing to try. The breeder told me that I had two weeks to research and she would quiz me before she would even give me a puppy! I was felt that she must really know her stuff so I agreed.
Fast forward to the day I get to pick my puppy (potentially, if I pass the test). They tell me to stand outside on the sidewalk so they can bring the dad of the litter outside to let me see him. My brothers friend was telling me how big this dog was. But I did NOT BELIEVE HIM! At all!!!! This dog is absolutely enormous! He looks as if he could take a great dane and pick his teeth with it! lol! When he barked I felt it through the ground and up my legs and he was almost 20 feet away. I was definitely terrorized, but at the same time, I was thinking I would love to have one of those protecting my baby.
They took the mom and the dad in to another room (for my protection. Scary? YES it was.)
There were three or four bouncing romping puppies that eagerly greeted me as I walked in to the room they were kept in. None really made me feel when I looked at them that they would make a good member of the family. Then I noticed the darkest colored one in the litter, also the smallest, just laying on his belly looking all sad with his head between his paws. What can I say? My mommy senses kicked in right away and I picked him up (he was barely two months old and 20 lbs!) and he rested his little head on my shoulder.
I was sold. There was no way I was leaving without that little pup haha.
The puppies already had their tails docked and their dewclaws removed and their first round of shots/first worming. But she was telling me that maybe I might not want the runt because he already had a hard start in life. He has an umbilical hernia (the breeder told me from the mom pulling the cord off too rough when he was born), he almost died from not having enough milk because the other puppies crowded him off the boob. So she had to bottle feed him some, then he almost died from the worms, got him through that, then he was just a touch skinny cause they crowded him away from the food. Poor little guy!!! I still wanted him haha
Anyways, that is now our Ogre. Or 'Oyer' as my two year old pronounces it lmao. More often though we call him the Ogie Yogi Bear. He still has problems now at 10 months old. He's not very big as the breed goes, as I already said, and he has terrible food sensitivity and dry skin. But he's still our big stinky Ogre.
Anyway my mom ended up getting another puppy from the litter. And now he, Blue, is VERY VERY AGGRESSIVE. He's fine for just her household but I can't even walk in without the dog barking and lunging at me. Well, okay, they're a protective breed I know and that's what attracted me to the pups in the first place.
I worked with Ogre every day. I talk him for walks in public all the time and at the stores. And when I have him outside on the leash I do not allow him to act aggressively to anyone that walks up or down the street. Needless to say anyone can come in to my house if I welcome them and Ogre is their best friend. But also at the same time if they get close to my son and he is unsure if they are safe or not he will silently stand in between them and my son until I tell him it's okay. Then he backs off and goes and lays down but still watches. I have no doubts that if someone did something to my son they wouldn't be walking back out of my house unharmed. He is also very protective of the house. If someone tries to walk in without me telling him they are okay he growls and will bark until they walk away or I tell him it's okay.
Blue on the other hand is the complete opposite. I just came to her house today and he tried to bite me, for no other reason other than I sat on the couch!? She keeps saying she's going to get rid of him, but no one is going to want him being that aggressive...And she just yells at me when I say she didn't properly raise him or socialize him. Well, she didn't. She didn't reprimand him for barking as a puppy when people walked in. She didn't take him anywhere. He just....I don't know what to do anymore. I don't want to go to my mom's house anymore or for my son to visit because I am afraid of her dog! I just need help and advice cause I am not sure what to do. I also don't want the dog attacking/killing someone and my mom going to jail just because her dog doesn't know when not to be this way!
