Originally Posted by
myndflyte
Thanks for all the good advice. Yeah I always bring treats along and sometimes even those won't get him to budge. We will hold off on the dog park as well. There are some other people with dogs so we will introduce them to each other so he can have a play buddy.
As for his past, they don't really know much else. About 4 or 5 weeks ago, they rescue shelter got word of some labs in West Virginia. It was our dog, a female and 4 of their pups and the kennel they were at was going to euthanize all of them. So they went out there to rescue them and unfortunately 1 of the pups ended up dying. Once they got him to the shelter, he had to be neutered so it's been a pretty crazy 4-5 weeks for him. And who knows what situation he was in the 2.5 years before that.