My girlfriend has a 14 year old Chihuahua Mix and they recused him when he was around 2-3 years old they aren’t really sure as even the original owners didn’t know. He doesn’t like to be picked up unless it’s by my girlfriend and he also has awful breath.
My girlfriend and I have been together for two years and about one year in, I moved into her family home to cut down on rent while I worked and went to school. Jack, the dog, always slept in my girlfriends bed by her head (I have dogs myself and I’m not comfortable with my own to do this, let alone someone else’s) however when I started to sleep over, I requested that she keep him on her side of the bed away from my face as I didn’t have that much trust in him. This was no issue until his breath started to make me nauseous half way through the night. We brought him to a vet and they pretty much just blamed it on him being old. She doesn’t have a big room and he breathes heavily through his mouth and it fills up the room within an hour or two and smells rank.
At this time about three weeks into me being moved in, we started to make the dog sleep out in the hallway between all the bedroom. Jack became very attached to her mother at this point and would push his bed into her room and up by her bed. And now If I entered her room even if she wasn’t in there, he would fly off the handle and start to bark and growl and snarl at me. And wouldn’t stop until he was put into the kennel with a blanket over it. Then he would cry and poop and pee so they would be forced to take him out and clean it while he ran back up to his bed.
The first incident happened when we were sitting on the couch. I had my feet up on the couch and my girlfriend came over and put my legs in her lap, jack jumped up beside her and laid down. I fell asleep and didn’t move out of position until jack latched onto my foot and wouldn’t let go. Her brother had to come downstairs and put his hands around the dogs jaw and pretty rip his teeth off my foot. My girlfriend even attested to my side saying I hadn’t stirred in my sleep enough to startle him and that he had preemptively been growling while looking at me. Her mother did not believe either of us, just said ‘weird but doesn’t sound like Jack’ and dismissed it.
Several incidents followed and anytime I would come home and no one else was, he runs at me and tries to bite me. Once he had been hiding by the wall on the other side of the porch growling but I couldn’t see him and thought he was at the top of the stairs giving me enough time to turn the light on and he would run away to his bed again, however, as soon as I stepped out of the porch he latched onto my toe and I had to kick my foot around to get him off then he proceeded to poop on the couch and carpet stairs while lifting his leg and pissing everywhere before taking off upstairs. I wrapped my toe up and went up stairs after him to kennel him. He started to go crazy and was lunging at me so I grabbed the blanket from his bed, wrapped him up and picked him up and put him in the kennel which he proceeded to ram his head and threw himself against the sides. It was insane I was crying on the phone with my girlfriend and she could hear him going savage in the crate. She came home and I ended up needing stitches in two toes and part of my foot.
The worst part is, is that he will act scared when there are others and me around. He gets on like a bratty child trying to blackmail me. It sounds stupid but it drives me insane. If her mother is around he will shake and whimper but if I try to sit on the couch with her he will growl and she has to tell him to knock it off.
The most recent incident is the worst and I don’t want to be around this dog at all whether it’s alone or not. I put the dog food into the bowl, and I leave it there for him to come get. I don’t go after him to come down because I don’t want him to feel cornered. I was sat on the couch and needed to run upstairs to the bedroom so I began to walk up the stairs and as soon as I made the turn to go up the next flight, he charged at me snarling. I hate to say I did this but I did it, I put my hand out and gave him a tap on the snout and screamed at him to get back. He retreated back to his bed in my girlfriends moms room. I went into our bedroom as came out to see him blocking the bathroom, the only bathroom in the house. I picked up a towel went towards him, I didn’t hold it like I was going to throw it over him, just held it over my arm. I told him to move and pointed to his bed but he didn’t budge. I needed to use the bathroom as I advanced towards him. Backed into the corner growling and I just opened the door and stepped over him and slammed it before he could nip at my ankles. I heard a trickle and then saw pee coming in from under the door. I opened it and he was mid poop and then ran into the bedroom and pooped his whole way in. I cleaned it up and as soon as I bent down he charged back at me and latched onto my scalp and hair. I wish I was making this shit up but it was the scariest thing I’ve ever experienced. And people have said “oh it’s a chihuahua how bad could it hurt” it fucking hurt, a lot. He ended up ripping a small chunk out of my scalp and when I got him off my head and threw him back towards the bedroom, he got back up and ran back at me. I was sobbing on the floor with dog poop in my hands trying to stop the bleeding on my head when he reached me again and grabbed my hand that reached out to push him away. He ended up cracking off one of his teeth while biting my pinkie and ring finger of my left hand and fractured my pinkie. I ended up with 7 stitches in my head, and 6 in my hand and a split. I’m a makeup artist, my job literally requires my dominant hand which is now decommissioned for the next coming weeks.
This happened two days ago now whenever the dog sees or hears me he starts to howl and growl at me. I am genuinely scared of this dog and I know my girlfriends family wouldn’t have believed me if it wasn’t for the security camera they had installed after a recent string of neighbourhood break-ins.
Her mother keeps blaming it on ‘he’s old, he’s a rescue, he’s only protecting us, he feels like she’s a threat’ is it even worth getting a trainer to look at him?
The attacks only started to happen about 7 months into me living there, I had known the dog for about a year before the first attack. I walked him, feed him, even bathed him and played with him. Sounds dumb but I feel betrayed.
Is there anything worth doing? Her mother already said putting the dog down is not an option regardless of this happening several times. I just feel like I’m the bad guy. What could have happened that he suddenly just went psycho? I want to stay with my girlfriend but it’s causing strain on our relationship as I know hate this dog and don’t want it near me while the dog wants to be near her but not me.
Any advice please
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