Jack’s Journey

Before you go on to read Nina’s report on Jack I just wanted to give a bit of background as we know it.

He was found in an empty flat, no water, no food extremely thin –and terrified of everything.

He thankfully was taken to a small gundog rescue centre who felt they had no experience of HPR’so they contacted me. He went to our kennels and after only a short time he went to a trainer to assess him. It turned out to be not the right place for this poor lad, so we brought him back to us and Nina agreed to try and turn him round, which we all knew would be a difficult job.

The only way he knew was to react and distrust and therefore bite, growl and be possessive of food when he was given some.

Although not a very young dog we all felt that he had suffered enough in his life so we would try and give this very disturbed boy a chance. I contacted the HVWC to see if they were happy to try for this boy. The committee agreed to support us financially for Jack. The Charity is so very grateful to their committee and we are extremely happy to be working so closely with the Wire Vizsla Club committee with re homes of Wires.

Whilst with us he has also received Physio as Nina noticed muscle wasting behind his shoulders. The Physio confirmed he did indeed have wasting and would also be in pain with the problem. Exercises were left and some massage to be done and it helped him so much..

Muscle improved and he enjoyed his massage that Nina gave him often falling asleep whilst it was being done

As you can see below- Nina has worked wonders for him –and we are so lucky at the Charity to have her as our resident trainer. She never gave up on him, whatever he threw at her. Although living in doors with her and her pack.

Sue Millson

Chair

Hungarian Vizsla Welfare Charity

Jack arrived 15^th December 2021

ISSUES

Resource guarding of food, bed and crate

Severe dog aggression

Human aggression

Touch reactive

Food obsessive and a counter surfer

JACK arrived very thin and hungry and is eating 4-5 lbs of raw a day with extras

I couldn’t touch him without him trying to bite , mouth or grab me .

His dog aggression was really bad he attacked my Korthals boy 5-6 times a day in the house while I was present and while out with my work dogs we had lots of incidents for at least 6 weeks.

The fighting ended when Geri won , Jack then started to pee on everything to show his dominance.

He has worn a muzzle and a training collar (vibrating) from the start and it has worked well.

We decided after 2 weeks to try the 6 monthly suprelorin implant which has worked well.

Jack is very intelligent and learns something new every day.

He has needed very intense training but works well with firm one word commands and has been gun dog trained at some point.

Jack has had lots of active walks which are reinforced with repetition of learned commands, exposure and socialisation with carefully selected dogs to reinforce his behaviour .

In the last few weeks Jack has turned a corner and has proved to be a model pupil and has been a pleasure to have around. Last weekend he had a sleep over with potential foster-adopt family and he was a dream they say..

He is set to go on a 4 week stay before they adopt..

This has been a difficult but rewarding journey for me ,even with all my experience I was heartbroken at thinking he would have to meet an unfortunate end I am so glad that I gave it the final push to see Jack finally realising there are good people around and he so wants to play by the rules

I sincerely believe he will do well in his new home and I will be a constant support for him.

Sincerely

Nina Draj

Welfare Officer & Resident Welfare CharityTrainer