Hi Carrie, it's me again.
Daisy is doing pretty well, I still get her attention when calling her sometimes she looks right then left then at me and will slowly come to me by way of around the coffee table, or pick up a toy on the way but eventually she comes if I persist. So we are working well on that.
Now Perry, we got him at eight months old and was being trained to be a show dog so we don't know what his background was. He is well behaved, will sit, come, stay, lie down, sit up, crawl and shake paws, BUT, he hates kids and other dogs except our sons two Schnauzers and even when we take him up there he has to down the male dog for about 10 minutes. Daisy who is usually docile will jump on the females neck no matter what I tell her. After about 10 minutes they all get along. Getting back to Perry, they get to jump on the couch in the window and see the kids going to school and he will always grab a plush toy, jump up and growl and shake the toy in the window. Daisy just barks. No matter who comes to our door including our grandkids we are afraid he will go after them. We took him to a behaviorist and she just put a large stuffed dog and told my husband to walk up and say nice puppy, well Perry is not stupid and he knew it was a stuffed toy., so we gave that up. They won't take him in obedience class because he is aggresive. I thought that was what they were teaching, but guess not. At home he is very loving, very possessive of my husband, if he is petting Daisy he will push her out of the way. He is very loving to us and our family who come over all the time. He is very loving to Daisy, he will let her have any toy, his food whatever she wants to do but if she picks up a toy on her own, he will take it away from her. In turn she licks his ears and cares for him. Are they a pack of two?
I'm not quite sure what to do about his aggresiveness, we did try to adopt a little Schnauzer and I know we did the wrong thing by the people bringing the dog here, but Perry acted like nothing was going on then he would suddenly attack the dog, he did this four times so we gave it up. We have to be very careful when we take him out in public which is not very often, I know we should have socialized him, but we are mostly at home people and don't go out that often ourselves except to take trips and they go with us. What do you or anyone else thinks? We love Perry very much and we know he loves us, maybe he is just overly protective.