Cayde, Oldham

Can you adopt Cayde?

Name : Cayde

Breed : German Shepherd

Age : 18 Months

Sex : Male

Intact : No

Town/City : Oldham

County : Lancashire

Information about Cayde

We have an 18 month old German Shepherd that we unfortunately need to re-home pretty much immediately

Essentials:

Name: Cayde
Breed: German Shepherd Dog
Age: 18 Months
Neutered: Yes
Flea/Worm: Yes, within the last 6 months
Vaccines: Current within the last 6 months
Aggression: Occasional and circumstantial

Training Completed:
1. Sit
2. Lie Down
3. ‘Middle’
4. Wait for food until release word given
5. House trained
6. ‘Leave it’

Ideal:
1. No young children (he has not lived with children, so not sure how he would react)
2. Ideally, no other pets
3. Need to be very active with him, so he wouldn’t be suitable as a lap dog

To cut a long story short, Cayde belongs to my girlfriend – she has had him since he was a pup.

Prior to her moving into my house (July 23), Cayde was relatively well behaved, he didn’t bark too often, no dominance testing, aggression etc and he got on well with my little Jack Russell.

When my partner and Cayde moved into my house with my dog and I, all was well – he was a little bit barky because of all the new sounds and smells but this was quickly trained out of him.

The problem came when we took him on holiday with us to the Norfolk Broads on a boat back in September 23. He hated getting on and off the boat and would often have to be picked up by my partner who would carry him on the boat, he got so upset by this that he snapped at my partner.

He had never done this before, the big mistake we made was that we coddled him to try to calm him down rather than correcting him – since then he has become difficult to walk, difficult to feed and has regressed back to ‘stealing’ things that he shouldn’t have (eg: TV remote, coal from the electric fireplace.. etc) to try and get a reaction.

We are well aware that the problem lies with us and the way we are reacting to him and I am under no doubt that, if given the proper training by an experienced person, he would be obedient. He can sit, lie down, respond to the ‘leave it’ command, wait and only eat his food when given his release word ‘ok’.

Unfortunately, we do not have the knowledge, time or financial means to be able to give him the training and consistency he desperately needs. This has been made worse by our landlord receiving reports that the neighbours are now scared of him due to the fact that we are no longer able to fully control him and consequently he is essentially living like a prisoner – constantly supervised, constantly on the lead and never around others or my dog without a muzzle on because we don’t want to run the risk of him snapping at someone again. It is relatively rare that he does snap, but around strangers he becomes defensive and will bark and bare at them.

We are now in a situation where, if he is not rehomed soon we face being evicted and this risk means that if we cannot take him to be rehomed within the next few days, we would need to try and get him in a home

As tough as the decision has been, we are now certain that it is best for him to be rehomed with someone who will be able to dedicate the right time and resources to getting him trained so he can live his best life.