As some of y'all may have seen elsewhere, Major (our Doberman of 8+ years) passed away around 1-1/2 months ago due to Cancer. Gut wrenching, of course. The 1st dog my kids ever had as "theirs" (my Mom had a German Shedder that was located @ her house; Otis passed on close to 6 years ago).
Anyway.
Yesterday, we got another Doberman. Say "hi" to Bruno. $ 300.00 got us the dog, a collar, + 1 "King Size" bag of Pedigree. Mature size, juvenile in age (somewhere between 10 months & 1 year, I think). This was my wife's idea & she was really missing Major, so that explains her emotional situation on going for another Dobie so soon. This one isn't the "black & tan" variety, Bruno is the "Red & Rust" version.
We visited with Bruno @ his South Austin home last Sunday & after some apprehension on his part, he warmed up what seemed to be enough & he played with me, my teenaged kids, etc Monster is almost 16 & Roxette is closing in on 18). All seemed to be OK.
Yesterday, we picked him up & brought Bruno out to Drip. Hilarity did NOT ensue. We have 3 Corgis; Tater Tot (Rascal) is the cutest evarrr fuzzball pup of around 2 months old, Rory is approx. 1 year & Scout is 2 years.
Both "adult" Corgis took an instant dislike & Bruno was violently aggressive towards Rascal (pup).
Bruno has apparently NOT been trained to not jump up / put his feet on you, etc. & 3x when someone had his back to him, he went near 45 deg. angle to the human & was either trying to assert dominance or going for the "play" posture (not either of these moves to a human in an overly aggressive way).
After Bruno was here around 1 hour, Roxette returned after having been to the high school to do maintenance for her sheep (4H type show sheep) & Bruno apparently smelled something of interest & was very VERY aggressive to her.
Everything was a mess... none of the canines settled down (other than Rascal... he's still oblivious @ that age) & we had to separate them overnight by a distance of around 6 feet from the living room to the kennel we have Bruno in.
This is not working out
We contacted the people in South Austin that we got him from & they are refusing to take him back. Less than 18 hours after we brought him to Drip.
THEM: We already spent the money & gave away all of his stuff that we still had.
US: We can work on the $$ later - for now, you have to take him back. We will even give you the bed & some rawhides we picked up @ PetCo.
THEM: Nope, that's your issues. Hard refuse.
US: Let's be reasonable here - this isn't working out. (re-describe issues that have come up)
THEM: Nope.
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Discuss, Shag.