Thread: What to do about my dog

Well we are down to 3 dogs at the moment, the attrician rate here is pretty high, but "my" dog, the biggest oldest one has started biting people.

He's not a nasty dog, in fact I've never actually even seen him growl at anyone and has never even looked like biting anyone while I've been around. None the less he has biten quite a few people.

1st, one of the local kids was climbing on the back of the motorbike with my misses, we think the dog percived this as an atack and bit the boy.

2nd, Local bloke playing with my nephew, same sort of senario as above.

3rd woman while waiting outside for my mother-in-law to open up the shop, tried the doors, she was outside on her own, so he bit her.

Now on the one hand the dog is supposed to "look after" the place so really is just doing his job, on the other I'm worried that this is becoming a habit. An expencive one at that as we have to pay for all the jabs for the people it's biten. If we just had a house I'd put a sign up, but with the shop there are people in and out all the time.

If I was around when it bit someone I'd give it a good beating, but there is little point after the event as the dog would'nt know what its for.

I could keep it tied up, but I recon it would go crazy as it has been free all the time. other options are, having it put down, giving it to the local wat or looking for a muzzle. It's not a house dog, living outside and does a great job of keeping all the other dogs away

Anyone with any ideas ?