~1 year old F intact bully breed (~47 lb) with bite history -- prior to intake, dog was on leash with a handler behind a car, person walked by and dog became started, lunged and bit L calf of victim. In shelter, lunged and attempted to bite a staff member …
~1 year old F intact bully breed (~47 lb) with bite history -- prior to intake, dog was on leash with a handler behind a car, person walked by and dog became started, lunged and bit L calf of victim. In shelter, lunged and attempted to bite a staff member who was taking dog from a different handler and attempting to walk the dog to a new area of shelter. Dog has exhibited loud barking and jumping at kennel door out of frustration (exhibiting kennel stress) but highly food motivated and affiliative once you have food; once kennel door open, dog is easily leashed. Dog was started on anxiety medications to improve quality of life in shelter and reduce kennel stress and frustration. Most recently on 12/30/25, staff able to leash, walk dog to medical, weigh patient and perform very invasive physical examination (including oral exam, ear cleaning and treatment and vaccination, palpate abdomen, head pets and pats) - no signs of high FAS during this encounter other than 2 lip licks and slightly more still (not tense) body language, and during exam dog lost interest in food distraction. Patient was on trazodone at time of exam (4 mg/kg). Shelter has not yet performed dog-to-dog evaluation to assess dog-on-dog tolerance/reactivity. This dog also has ear infections, skin infections and blood in stool that may be suggestive of food intolerance or other allergic/inflammatory disease. The dog is on treatment for these issues. Needs rescue. If adopted, cannot go to home with any regular exposure to children under 12 and adopter would need to sign behavior and medical waiver.
