When we got our rescue dog just over a year ago he had no basic training, so all the training I have done myself, but because he wasn't lead trained he would roll over and thrash about biting at the lead when ever a lead was put on him. He did stop this, slightly, for a while but now he has started again.

Yesterday my oh took him and his sister's dog for a walk, let our dog (Mutley)off his lead and then Mutley bit through my SIL's dog lead with her dog still attatched and through his own lead when it was put back on him.

Another problem we had with him was barking when we came home, this I did manage to stop but now he has started to bark again. I am still training him but all the work I am doing with him seems to be worthless.

I feel as though I take one step back and he takes two. I think we took on too much when we got him, but we wanted to give him a chance, and now sometimes find myself thinking perhaps we shouldn't of got him at all. Does that make me sound a bad person. He is very much part of the family and is good with my daughter, we really don't know what else to do.

Rspca did offer to pay for a behaviourist/trainer to see him, but as we've had him over a year would the offer still stand? and that if things didn't work out they would find him another home, but don't want to take the last option. He is very much part of the family and is good with my daughter, we really don't know what else to do.

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Lynn, Mum to Buddy and Mary my two fur babies.