By: lesley hemsworth

lesley hemsworth — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 23:43:16 +0000

Hi there, flo is very lovely ! Iv just read about sensitive staffys and it is very useful imfo, so thanks for that. I have a wonderful staffy called Beau, who i absolutley adore, but unfortunatley, had 2 owners before me ,who ill treated him, i knew the last owner , who would leave Beau alone in a flat all day. The bottom line is i offered to dog sit and in the end adopted him. Beau is the most loving effectionate dog iv ever had, but he is very nervous, and frightened of loud noises,trees wind,fireworks , thunder, children screaming, anyone raising there voices, etc, the last straw was kids with air riffles and fire crackers in the park. When imention walkies he shakes ,with tail under his bottom.We get to my gate to go for a walk,and he will lay on ground trembling in fear .Plus he s been attacked by 3 other dogs over the last couple of years, never having instigated it,but ifear he will instigate if the next time. So you can imagine the delight i felt when a couple of friends recomended an ex police dog trainer, ( il call him john) and said how good he was, but also his wife would help, and my friends said the wife wasent very nice. I took Beau along last saturday, things didnt seem too bad, although, john shouted a lot at all the dogs, john then told me to go to his wife and ask her to put a choke chain on Beau and to march him up and down the grass.When i asked her she was sitting down and talking on her mobile phone.She made it very obvious, that she was not happy about being disturbed, and threw the choke chain around Beau s neck and yanked it so hard, he let out a loud cry, when she came back with him, he was shakeing cowering on the ground, in the womans,temper where she had yanked the choke chain, she had caught his ear in it and it was bleeding, when i told her, she fobbed me off with excuses and said he was shakeing because of the adrenilin rush. I said it was fear. Beau was a bag of nerves though the Brest of the class, plus her husband, didnt see it. I wanted to tell him, but couldnt get him on his own, plus thought john might think im slagging off his wife. She is a nasty bit of works,in it for the money, and not the love of dogs.I feel Beau is more damaged now, than he was before, and has been so depressed this week, that i only managed to take him out today, and its now friday, and surposed to go back to the class tomorrow, (saturday ) iv got to give lead and chain back, that they insisted i use. Iv got to tell john what she did, and tell her what i think, as iv been so upset about it. Hopefully, i will be able to find someone to help him, someone that likes staffys. Beau s mum

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By: lesley hemsworth