Meet Snorty Chorty!
I work over 40 hours a week and just started grad school. I am not in a place to take on a dog.
I have had this guy for 2 weeks. It’s a long story. My neighbors abandoned this dog after getting kicked out. They left him alone with no food, water or bed and he broke out of the yard. I happened to see and brought him to my yard.
He is very sweet. He’s not purposely aggressive towards humans at all. He can get a little too eager nipping during play or jumping on people. He has some bigger behavioral challenges due to the owners being being neglectful and traumatic to him.
I named him Chortles aka Chorty.
Im not sure anything about him medically. He is about 62 pounds and not neutered.
Guessing he is around 2-4 years old? But totally unsure.
I’m going to be very picky about where he ends up.
He must have someone willing to train, exercise and give him proper attention. 95% of his behavioral issues are due to him wanting attention and probably not being fixed. I just started grad school and I don’t have the capacity to add a dog who needs more support than I can offer.
His behaviors I’ve seen are jumping on people for attention. Jumping on people is his biggest problem behavior because it’s really hard not to give him attention when he jumps and he does it constantly when he is excited. He is not intentionally aggressive but his excited jumping is a lot because he is 60 pounds and doing it a lot. I’ve been working with him by giving as little of attention for the unwanted behaviors and praising him when he is appropriately wanting attention, he still needs A LOT of support though.
He needs lots of toys and things to do. If he doesn’t have stuff to chew up, he will seek out things to chew. He’s chewed a couple shoes.
Hes went to the bathroom in the house 3 times total in 2 weeks since he’s been here. Twice might have been my fault cause I didn’t let him out long enough after he ate, but he still did it.
He met one dog and aggressively nipped at him multiple times and bit at his neck, so he will need work on animal socialization as well. I’m pretty sure they were studding him out because they had a female pit who definitely had been pregnant a couple times. They had even kept the 2 of them separate so I really feel like he should be the only animal in the house until he has more training on his own first.
Not sure about cats but I wouldn’t risk it at this point. I think he would do best being the only animal in the house.
He is really smart and when I give him the attention, training, and exercise he needs, he does really awesome.
He has learned to “wait” already and also to sit and not lick before he gets pets. He knows these things but still struggle to do them all the time.
He is a sweet dog and very attached to his human but loves human attention in general.
he was living in the backyard in a kennel so he does well outside while I’m at work during the day as long as he has a Covered space with a bed, something to chew on and warmth to lay on.
I think he would be great on a farm or big yard to run in and exert all his excess energy out!
Contact: Miles jadedoracle17@gmail.com
