For context, new year brought us a stray dog right jn front of our house. He is a pretty big dog, seems to be a mix between rottweiler and german shepherd. He wasn’t violent, we initially brought him food and he didn’t want to leave. I posted on all groups on facebook related to lost dogs in my city in order to find his owner cause he didn’t seem to belong to the streets, his fur was shiny and pretty clean. I found out from several people that he is on the streets since at least a month, being seen by them in this area. We decided to take him to a vet in order to verify if he is microchipped, which he is, and we contacted the owner but she doesn’t want him anymore. We also found out that he is 3 years old. He was sociable and sweet and we decided to keep him even tho we know it’s going to be a challenge and we named him Loki.
Now, I need some advice because it’s the first adult dog that we adopt, we have another two little dogs and they don’t get along very well yet. One of them is just scared of the big one, and the other is upset and it barks whenever he is near her. Loki however doesn’t seem to mind them too much, he wants to smell them and his tail is wagging so I suppose he would just like to play with them. I don’t know what’s the best approach to get them to be friendly to one other, especially with the little girl that just seems to hate him and that he is in her “ territory “. She is a pekingese, if this info helps somehow.
Other problems include that when we are taking him outside for walks, he keeps barking at cars, people that are running or sometimes at random people that are just staying near him. I don’t know why they bother him so much since he was for some time on the streets.. With other dogs he is friendly, he just smells them and that’s it, but if he doesn’t get the chance to do so or if we don’t let him he looks after that dog and keeps crying for some minutes and we struggle to get him moving again. He also trembles sometimes when we touch him in order to pet him and sometimes even when we just raise our hands. We suppose previous owners were violent to him.. We tried to give him a bath and he was completely terrified of water and he constantly wanted to get out of the bathtub, I was lucky because my boyfriend was there to hold him but he is heavy and I managed to shampoo him only once and on his back.. it’s pretty impossible to clean him this way at least for now and I don’t know how to make him feel comfortable with showering. He is also stubborn, doesn’t really listen most of the time and whenever one of us leaves the room he starts crying.
Those are not big problems, when he is alone after crying a bit he just leans down and tries to sleep, he is not violent at all, though sometimes his play “ style “ is to bite our hands or legs, it doesn’t really hurt and he is not offensive but I still think it’s something that needs training in order not to happen.
Please excuse my english and that I wrote so much, I would really need some advice on how to train him and how to behave with him, I am aware that he went through some tough situations and I want to give him a happy life
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