Well he isn’t that new, but for awhile we weren’t sure that we were going to keep him so I didn’t want to mention him. His name is Rudy and he is a 2 year old German Shepherd. We adopted him in February. Rudy’s first “parents” were an older couple (in their 70’s) and they had him for about a year, in the woods of New Hampshire. From what we were told, and from his displays of neurotic behavior he was not socialized. The older couple decided he was too much to handle and they gave him up to a German Shepherd breeder/police K-9 officer couple. The breeder trained him and gave him back to the older couple, but they still couldn’t handle Rudy so the breeder took him in. Rudy stayed with the breeder and K-9 couple for a few months, but I have a feeling he lived most of the time in an outdoor kennel. When we bought the house it was always understood that we would get a German Shepherd and Greg and I agreed that we would wait until February, so in January I started to look on Petfinder and I fell in love with his picture. February 4th we got Rudy. The breeder didn’t mention that he was fear aggressive and that he is afraid of everything, but we quickly figured that out. Since then, we took him to the vet and she recommended Prozac so we’ve tried that out along with, socializing him, exercising him (lots) and just giving him time to adjust, he is slowly getting better. I don’t trust him around children, or for that matter anyone else besides our immediate family and I fear for the person who is stupid enough to try and break in to our house.
