Im hitting the point where I feel I cant do this any more
OK, I'll warn you, this may take a little bit of reading
Me and my aunt have brothers from the same litter.. Bulldogs.. Alapaha blue blood bulldogs to be exact..
I'd been having a hard time in my home province, and I moved to Ontario, which ended up being a mistake. On their way through (driving from a family visit in Nova Scotia) my aunt and uncle picked me up and brought me to Alberta with them
I currently am not working (but have been applying to tons of jobs and still no luck. I've been here for three weeks to a month so far), I'm living with them and I'm at my wits end
Their pup, is stubborn, doesn't listen, and has snapped at me once and almost got me (all I did was put my hand down by him while he was outside like I have before to see what he was digging at and to make sure he did not have something that could hurt him), and attacked my pup during eating time once (which was the other day, both occurrences) and he's never done that before. He's taken to chasing the cats, which he did not start doing until this week
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I've owned many dogs before, and I have trained them all myself, Even Ryu at 14 weeks of age will walk beside me on leash, come on command (most of the time unless he's totally distracted playing out in the yard), sits on command... I've worked with My aunts pup and mine an equal amount, doing the same sort of training with both, no hitting, no rubbing their faces in things, no "Cesar" methods.I do use treat training on occasion for new things such as sit and lay down and work out of having a treat to do it... * I don't believe in forcing a dog down on its back and holding it there is going to accomplish anything* I've trained horses before, with my own no stress method, that me and an old boss developed... and I've never had problems like this with any type of animal. And I've always owned unaltered male dogs.
Owen won't walk on leash, he now will attack Ryu even when he's just laying in the yard trying to get some sun. and this has been happening for the last two days. He is even doing it in the house now.. Attacking Ryu every chance he gets. Now neither of them are fixed. Ryu because he is breeding quality and once he is old enough he is going to be used as a stud dog (I've been doing a lot of genetic research, Artificial Insemination research, breed research) Owen is not fixed either... Which I keep trying to talk to my aunt and uncle and tell them that they should really get him fixed because I honestly do not feel my timid, anti-social, withdrawn aunt can handle an adult dog weighing anywhere from 80 to 100 pounds that is male and unfixed. She can't really handle him now sometimes as he will not walk well on leash or listen. She says she will not get him fixed because he is a rare breed, (there's only a couple thousand registered purebreds in the world. *any of the breed registered with the ARF **animal research foundation** has been "merit registered" sometime in the past. And merit registering does not require the dog to actually be purebred to be called a purebred... **) But in my honest opinion I do not believe he shows the qualities or disposition that you should have in a stud dog that would be used to help promote and preserve the breed.
And on top of it all the people in the house are not listening to the rules (we live with my aunt's two brothers also... ) the rules are simple... No leaving things such as electronics on the floor or footstools as Owen has taken to chewing on cords when no one is around. And my aunt and uncle work weird hours (always in the AM's) and my aunt puts Owen in his crate from 4:00 in the morning (which is when she leaves for work) until I get up around 7:30.. and now people have been letting him out and leaving him out when they leave for work. So he has taken to peeing in the house again, getting into things like the garbage pestering the cats.. barking...
I have suggested puppy classes and then obedience but I do not think they are willing to do that.. because each time I find them an affordable option they just toss it in the garbage... or never bother to look at it...
I'm hitting the point where this is stressing me out something fierce and I cannot do all the work by myself, its not my dog.. and its getting to the point where I want to move out, I can't handle living here with all this stress.. when people don't take my advice... what can/should I do :( :(