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Originally Posted by Johnny Makarov
Which is why it's crazy we are importing 100s of them a year from California. The reason why there are so many is because in California they cannot adopt a dog that has behavioral problems. That's when theses geniuses from Canada take them off their hands and fly them up here.
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I agree, but we do have some experts at the humane society who decide if they can be rehabbed or not. They put down any dogs who show any signs of aggression. They do testing around food bowls for resource guarding, they test with people and other dogs to see their reactions. They walk them and do training. Without progress or any signs of aggression to a certain level, I would guess they get euthanized at the CHS. I am not sure about other rescues but I know the CHS does do extensive training and offers a lot of education on dog training to the public.
We have fostered a reactive dog (wanted to charge other dogs on walks, etc, more to say hi but probably looked terrifying since he was a mastiff) before and once we introduced him properly to our family and our dogs, he was just a part of the pack. He was a big old suck and was best friends with our dogs by the end of his stay, friends with any visitors we had and we successfully introduced him to our friends dogs during his stay with us.
There are a lot of dogs here already that need our help, I don't understand why we bring in more of them. So that part doesn't really make sense to me . Some people have bigger hearts?