That sounds like a good idea for the digging! He does have his own space in the yard which is fenced off from the rest because we are trying to put down grass seed this year (again!), so he can dig to his hearts content in there. But once the grass comes up then we can have him in the yard with us again. He's got the craziest way of digging I've ever seen though, I bet we could win on Funniest home Videos! He picks a spot, whines and sniffs, backs up, pounces, backs up again, pounces and then starts to dig. I think he's got some aversion to all plant life, 'cause he digs up tree roots and bites them apart, and we've got about 2 blades of grass in the whole yard.
As for the BC rescue thing, I don't think he could ever be placed in another home, for a couple different reasons. The first one being that we could never do that, he's our son! The other is because he probably wouldn't hesitate to bite someone if they came to close while he was on a leash or in his yard or home. But, if he's off his leash (he's escaped a couple times) then he'll go and sniff someone but then runaway. We think it's fear aggression, and we think we know where it came from. We own a dupex, and when we lived in the bottom apartment (until he was about 2), we had these tenants upstairs that all of a sudden he started really hating. Their stairs and porch go right over the backyard, and everytime the went in or out Casey would freak out, snarling and trying to bite them through the stairs. When they first moved in he was fine with them. He used to bark ALOT when he was a puppy, and sometimes we would leave him in the yard while we went out for a bit (never more than an hour or so, but we know better now!), and I imagine that he barked more while we were gone. After he started being aggressive to them he started being that way to all strangers, and we couldn't figure out why for a while. One day maybe a couple months after Casey started acting this way my husband was upstairs and noticed a pellet gun on the porch. We never found any marks on him, and we never confronted them about it (they're gone now), but we suspect they shot close enough to him to try to stop his barking. It backfired on them though that's for sure. They could hardly move in their house without casey getting worked up. So that's why we think he's the way he is. Not that it isn't our fault, we should have known better than to leave him outside like that
while we were gone.
As for the BC rescue thing, I don't think he could ever be placed in another home, for a couple different reasons. The first one being that we could never do that, he's our son! The other is because he probably wouldn't hesitate to bite someone if they came to close while he was on a leash or in his yard or home. But, if he's off his leash (he's escaped a couple times) then he'll go and sniff someone but then runaway. We think it's fear aggression, and we think we know where it came from. We own a dupex, and when we lived in the bottom apartment (until he was about 2), we had these tenants upstairs that all of a sudden he started really hating. Their stairs and porch go right over the backyard, and everytime the went in or out Casey would freak out, snarling and trying to bite them through the stairs. When they first moved in he was fine with them. He used to bark ALOT when he was a puppy, and sometimes we would leave him in the yard while we went out for a bit (never more than an hour or so, but we know better now!), and I imagine that he barked more while we were gone. After he started being aggressive to them he started being that way to all strangers, and we couldn't figure out why for a while. One day maybe a couple months after Casey started acting this way my husband was upstairs and noticed a pellet gun on the porch. We never found any marks on him, and we never confronted them about it (they're gone now), but we suspect they shot close enough to him to try to stop his barking. It backfired on them though that's for sure. They could hardly move in their house without casey getting worked up. So that's why we think he's the way he is. Not that it isn't our fault, we should have known better than to leave him outside like that
while we were gone.
