Rip Jaeger, Aussie Staghound

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So January of this year I picked up a 2 month old aussie staghound, the line I chose essentially being a greyhound wolfhound. From the moment he came home Jaeger was a handful I felt like something was wrong, but just put it down to him being a puppy. The first two weeks he howled non stop and for the rest of his life he whimpered at everything. As he grew he become a nightmare, destroying everything, refusing to listen, attacking other dogs etc. Now, all these things one would normally attribute to poor training however I spent hours a day working with this dog attempting to remedy the situation. Long story short, one day at 10 months he turned on me and attempted to rip my throat out as I walked him to the vehicle to go for a hunt. This was the beginning of the end for him and a week later he was pts. Before he passed I got the vet to do a blood test to try and find out what went wrong and it turns out he had a canine version of bipolar due to a chemical imbalance and some medical induced neurosis. I was gutted needless to say, as I was very fond of him regardless and it just about broke my heart when he turned on me after everything we'd been through

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The day he passed away he measured 32 inches tts and 40km at 10 months was a big strong dog and was starting to show some serious hunting potential

[skycat 6,174]

What a shame: just goes to show that dogs can suffer from the same sort of problems as humans. I've known a couple with serious mental problems, not caused by bad upbringing: just not wired right.

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What a shame: just goes to show that dogs can suffer from the same sort of problems as humans. I've known a couple with serious mental problems, not caused by bad upbringing: just not wired right.

Yeah it's the first one I've had but I spoke to some mates who breed a lot since I don't breed my own dogs usually and they said they've seen it every now and then, especially with tight bred lines.

Some photos of him a week before he passed.

[john the log 91]

shame RIP man lad

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shame RIP man lad

 

 

Big Strong Lad

You tried your best and in the end did the only thing you could .

 

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[Stud dog 632]

Sorry for you bud its hard when you have bonded with them a put everything into the dog but couldn't imagine what it felt like when your best buddy turns on you I dont think I would have made it to vets good on you RIP

[bird 10,014]

Big Strong Lad

You tried your best and in the end did the only thing you could .

 

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you tried your best mate , we put up with few things maybe be what we don't like with working dogs, but if there if there ticking the boxes for us and give 100% at there quarry what ever that may be .But when a dog tries to bite the hand that feeds it, that the end of the line for that animal deff , but as you say it was night wired up right in the brain it was just bad luck . ive looked at my big dog Buck few times , thinking if he ever went funny = nasty he prob make real mess of you /me with his size and bloody bite he got on him, but he thank feck big soft wimpy thing , and reading your post brought it home to me . shame about your dog mate .!

[fireman 11,473]

A sad story for sure but you did best for the dog and everyone else mate as he was a big strong boy and god forbid he'd started on someone smaller than yourself who wouldn't know how to stop a dog like him,hope you find another one soon and the next one is as good as him but fused and wired correctly .

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Sorry for you bud its hard when you have bonded with them a put everything into the dog but couldn't imagine what it felt like when your best buddy turns on you I dont think I would have made it to vets good on you RIP

Yeah it was rough, and even rougher when 30 seconds later he was back to tail wagging and being your mate. Only reason I took him to the vet instead popping him myself was I just couldn't do it. Call me soft but I've had to put down a lot of good dogs myself over the years due to injuries and old age and this time I just couldn't bring myself to do it.

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Big Strong Lad

You tried your best and in the end did the only thing you could .

 

Shame RIP

 

you tried your best mate , we put up with few things maybe be what we don't like with working dogs, but if there if there ticking the boxes for us and give 100% at there quarry what ever that may be .But when a dog tries to bite the hand that feeds it, that the end of the line for that animal deff , but as you say it was night wired up right in the brain it was just bad luck . ive looked at my big dog Buck few times , thinking if he ever went funny = nasty he prob make real mess of you /me with his size and bloody bite he got on him, but he thank feck big soft wimpy thing , and reading your post brought it home to me . shame about your dog mate .!

 

Yeah I suppose with any of the bigger type of dogs there's always that risk but with good socialisation it never really becomes an issue unless it's like this case where there's something wrong. Thanks for the kind words mate.

 

A sad story for sure but you did best for the dog and everyone else mate as he was a big strong boy and god forbid he'd started on someone smaller than yourself who wouldn't know how to stop a dog like him,hope you find another one soon and the next one is as good as him but fused and wired correctly .

That was what I was afraid of. He went after my old man when came round and that was the last straw. Plus when he went me that first time and got me off guard he nearly did me in and I thought "sh*t he's only a pup now what about when he's 3 yr old and fully mature?!". Haha me too, I spoke to my mate who bred him about it and he's giving me my pick of his next litter free to make up for it, I think he feels responsible even though he's not really. He's a real good bloke