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Sorry this is going to be relatively long, but I can't think of away to ask the question without starting with the back story. Currently I have an elder statesman staying with me who was the victim of domestic violence, but he is not the reason for the post, one of his attackers is. There are 9 dogs living in his house, 8 border collies and 1 lab. The pack has been relatively stable until the arrival of a long term foster bitch, who through no fault of her own has been adopted out 3 times (death in the family twice) and one realizing his health was not up to living with a border collie. She is very difficult to place as she has some horrible issues travelling in a car and all the potential homes have not wanted to put the time into helping her through this. She lived with me twice, before her last adoption 3 years ago for about a month and she got along fine with my 2 dogs, she basically ignored them. She came back to me for about 3 weeks and also had no issues, she stayed away from my elder dog who could be a bully, but loved the company of my younger dog, they played wrestled, hung out together on dog beds, just got on really well. She left me to go live in her current home as we thought another foster would do better with less dogs ie my house. She and another bitch have had some squabbles since she moved in, and any issues have been been between the two of them, none of the other dogs have involved themselves. Until 2 days ago when they turned on the oldest dog who is obviously an old man, together, and they had a very nasty go at him and did not want to back off, when a human got involved. Which brings me to the question, do you think it would be possible for her still be adopted? Or is the dog aggression too much of a problem. She is good with humans and a very quick learning which in my opinion is the cause of her issues as she learns the bad quicker than the good! Her last home loved her and took good care of her physically but I don't think they put that brain to work, so she has been using it herself. Just an FYI She can't come back and stay with me as we are currently not in a position to be able to provide long term foster care. I would like to be able to work with her, but I don't have the time to commit to her.
