We got a dog here in Chile (Lucas), but honestly it is not working out very well. He is very hyperactive and is constantly trying to jump on and scratch and bite everyone. If you try to pet him, he tries to bite you for example. When I open our gate to go out, he (if not tied up in advance) will immediately run out into the road and start running all around barking at much bigger dogs. When I pick him up to carry him back inside, he tries to bite me. He likes to run short circles round and round me at a hundred miles an hour making it almost impossible not to step on him.
I tried doing some research online and with another experienced owner of dogs to train away some of this behaviour, but we were not very successful so far. As he grows up he is actually getting worse. Letting him have the run of our large garden for the whole day doesn't calm him down. He is probably a bit lacking in care from us to be honest, but only the emotional/attention/lonely sort. But it is kind of a negative cycle. You try to play with him, and he's so annoying you give up. You try to train his behaviour by ignoring him on negative behaviour and giving him attention for positive behaviour. But almost all of his behaviour is negative, so the only result of that is he gets no attention.
He is the same with our 2-year old son, constantly trying to jump on him, push him etc. In one case he knocked him onto the floor and then jumped all over his face. At this point we had to admit we have made a mistake in getting Lucas in the first place, we should have done some more research on breeds etc before getting the dog. He would be better suited to a home without young children - and to a very patient owner willing to spend more time training his behaviour (or putting up with it). At the moment, we have to tie him up whenever our son goes outside. Even then, my young son will walk over to interact with him, and I even saw him pressing his face up against Lucas's face as a game which looked like a good way to get your face bitten off.
But no friends or close family want this dog, and we are somewhat reluctant to give this dog to just anyone because then we don't know if he will be well treated. The other issue is that if we are honest about what this dog is like, no-one will want him. If we are not honest, we run the risk of just passing off the problem to another family that won't treat him well or know how to control this behaviour.
We cannot keep this dog because he is not safe for our son. But, we honestly don't know what to do at this point. Let me know if you got any advice... or if you have a big enough heart to be Lucas new owner! I don't mind going as far as Santiago (1 hour from me) or Vina (2 hours) if by some miracle someone is actually interested.
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