Hound dog mix rehome

New Port Richey FL

Description

I have a hound dog/possibly bully breed mix that needs a great home. He is just under a year. He is a great dog but he needs a family and more active lifestyle. My husband and I both work long hours and my daughter is too young to play with him like he needs. Our other dog recently passed away and he is lonely and too energetic to be alone all day. He loves other dogs and is fantastic with kids. We have never seen any sign of aggression or violence out of him toward anything bigger than a lizard, which he chases and plays with in the yard. He has no protective instinct at all. He isn’t very bright either to be quite frank. He is crate trained and house broken. He is ok on a leash but he regularly thinks everything is after him so he occasionally lays down while walking and you have to coax him to walk alongside you. It does become an annoyance pretty quickly so a home with a fenced yard would be ideal, it’s what he is used to. He is eager to make you happy and is very sensitive to any criticism. He needs persistence and patience when training. This particular dog would not respond well to authoritarian training methods. Repetition and positive reinforcement is all that has worked with him. It does take a mountain of saintly perseverance to train him. Truly. But he WANTS to learn what you are teaching. It just takes him a minute. I am giving as good of a snapshot of his personality and needs as I can because I want to see a good match. He deserves a really good life. He would make a young family the most perfect pet in the world. Or make a slightly older dog the companion of their dreams. What I don’t want to see happen is a failed placement because someone has expectations that are unrealistic or simply a bad match. It happened once already and it’s heartbreaking for him to need to rehome more than once. We feel terrible already and it’s unfair to him.