Feeling threatened by uncles dog

CocoPopsLover

I have an uncle who has a Staff/Rottweiler cross.

Im sure some of you might recall a post of me feeling very unhappy about a partner of mine's attitude towards 2 dogs.

Well anyway my mum took the dogs and I moved out and my mum has come to an agreement with me to have the dogs whenever I want. During that time I have helped my mum train the dogs to not jump all over the house or go into other peoples gardens, listen to instructions etc.

Now my mum and my uncle have been talking and he has this dog that I do not like, I feel very unsafe around him, hes unruly, thinks hes the boss and he might listen to instructions and do a few tricks but not for long. Now my uncle has this habit of popping up to peoples houses and he has this 'my dog is better than your dog' attitude and insults me about the fact my dogs cannot do tricks and that his dog can kill my male dog etc etc

He even tells me that his dog will breed with my female dog and I have told him she will not be bred with his dog, and I am scared that when I am not around, he might try to breed her.

She has not been neutred because once I get a place that allows dogs, she will be bred with dog trainers dog and we agreed in about a years time we wanted to breed our dogs to expand our families, not to sell and give to careless owners like my uncle.

I have explained to my mum about my concerns but she thinks I am being dramatic and I dont know what to do now

Any advice?

walwin

You're probably not going to like my reply, but why on earth are you even considering breeding with your female?
Get her spayed is the best advice I can give.

And give the uncle a wide berth..........

Blackpool_Saver

Sounds to me like you are the parent here, not your Mother, I agree with you.

CocoPopsLover

walwin wrote: »

You're probably not going to like my reply, but why on earth are you even considering breeding with your female?
Get her spayed is the best advice I can give.

And give the uncle a wide berth..........

Because I was going to buy more dogs in the future but as I know a dog trainer who is also a dog breeder, she wanted to breed her dog to make a bigger family as well so we agreed that we would breed our dogs when circumstances allow me to so we dont have to buy dogs and keep the pups in the family and my female dog will get to see all her babies!

I didn't think it was a stupid idea tbh

Frugalista

Get her spayed!!

Get her spayed!!

Get her spayed!!

Get her spayed!!

lisawood78

I'd suggest getting her speyed also.
Am I correct in thinking that you want her to have pups so that you have more dogs? How many more dogs are you after as dogs can have a heck of a lot of pups in one litter!
And avoid said Uncle, cos he sounds like a moron, IMHO.

dalsicle

Def get her spayed, do you know how many unwanted dogs end up stray or in rescue every year because people keep breeding, not all of them are old dogs with issues a large number are pups from circumstances like these.

If you do still breed I hope you will at least get her a full vet check and the dog she is to be bred to to at least lower the risk of breeding dogs with health problems.

As for your uncle I agree, try to avoid him as much as possible.

foreign_correspondent

cocoposlover - I know how much you love your dogs... but please remember that 7000 healthy dogs are put to sleep every year, just because their are no homes for them... sadly, most of them are staffies, and far too many of them are lovely, healthy, happy, lovable dogs - who are full of joy and affection - just like yours.

The bottom line is that there are more staffs than good staff owners. People cannot sell or give away staff pups at the moment. Please get your girl speyed, the biggest thing any sbt owner can do to help reduce the numbers of dogs being killed, is to not add to the numbers of this already overpopulated breed.

Who knows where your lovely dog's pups may end up...? I am pretty sure that none of the breeders of the 25 dogs who have gone for that final injection today expected that to be their fate when they decided to breed their dog. I expect they sent their pups off to new owners expecting them to have homes for life - but, people get tired of dogs, marriages break up, people move to homes where they cannot take animals... and the dogs have to go. Trying to find a rescue place for a staff is nigh on impossible nowadays. They are the breed most likely to end up in rescue, and the breed it is hardest to rehome, so many rescues decide to regretfully limit the nimber of places they will offer SBTs so they can take in dogs they will have more sucess in rehoming.

It is a tragedy, and it is heartbreaking - please do not add to it.

You could even help reduce the numbers by taking on a rescue staffie - you would then be part of the solution, not part of the problem!

http://www.dogsblog.com/category/staffordshire-bull-terrier/

http://www.dogsblog.com/category/staffordshire-bull-terrier-cross/

CFC

I'm not going to express anything on breeding other than think through carefully whatever it is you are considering.

As for your uncle,he sounds like a controlling abusive bully to be honest - he is obviously enjoying the reaction he gets from you; I would not invite him into your home any longer and I'd steer well clear of him, regardless of whatever the rest of your family says.

moomin5

Your uncle sounds like an idiot, although i hope it is more to wind you up, i certainly wouldn't want to leave my dogs in the company of such a person

Won't it be more expensive & lot of extra work to raise a whole litter to keep one than to just buy/adopt another pup to increase your family? Is the trainer friend going to financially go halves or just allowing you use of her stud in exchange for a pup as if there are medically complications you could end up with a large vets bill with the mum being your responsibility and the friend could back out, so definitely get it all in agreed in writing before you proceed.

1sue23

CocoPopsLover wrote: »

Because I was going to buy more dogs in the future but as I know a dog trainer who is also a dog breeder, she wanted to breed her dog to make a bigger family as well so we agreed that we would breed our dogs when circumstances allow me to so we dont have to buy dogs and keep the pups in the family and my female dog will get to see all her babies!

I didn't think it was a stupid idea tbh

Not always a good idea to keep the pups from a litter and keeping them with mum . I got my german shepherd from the police and also took on her mother as she could no longer be used for breeding, at first everything went well but as the pup matured and came into season her mother decided that the pup had to go and became very aggressive towards her ,the younger !!!!! ended up at the vets with some nasty injuries and I had no choice in parting with the mother .