Date of Intake: 12/20/2017

Spay/Neuter Status: Not Applicable

Basic Information:: Kid cudi is a 2 year old unaltered male black and white large dog breed. He came into BACC as a stray.

Previously lived with:: Unknown

How is this dog around strangers?: Around strangers Kid cudi is friendly and outgoing. He approaches individuals with a wiggly body and has a high actvity level.

How is this dog around children?: Unknown

How is this dog around other dogs?: Unknown

How is this dog around cats?: Unknown

Resource guarding:: Unknown

Bite history:: Unknown

Housetrained:: Unknown

Energy level/descriptors:: Unknown

Has this dog ever had any medical issues?: No

Medical Notes: Unknown

For a New Family to Know: Unknown

Date of intake:: 12/20/2017

Spay/Neuter status:: No

Means of surrender (length of time in previous home):: Stray

Behavior toward strangers:: Friendly, outgoing.

Date of assessment:: 12/21/2017

Look:: 2. Dog pulls out of Assessor’s hands each time without settling during three repetitions.

Sensitivity:: 1. Dog stands still and accepts the touch, eyes are averted, and tail is in neutral position with a relaxed body posture. Dog’s mouth is likely closed for at least a portion of the assessment item.

Tag:: 1. Dog follows at the end of the leash, body soft.

Paw squeeze 1:: 1. Dog gently pulls back his/her paw.

Paw squeeze 2:: 1. Dog gently pulls back his/her paw.

Toy:: 3. Dog takes toy away, keeps a firm hold. Body is stiff.

Summary:: During the handling assessment Kid Cudi was friendly and social toward the assessor. He was a bit distracted, and became tense with the toy item, taking away the toy with a high tail, tense posture, and turned away from assessor.

Summary (1):: Kid Cudi displays hyper-motivated behavior. He attempts to engage in high energy rowdy play, but displays inappropriate behaviors. He persistently jumps on the other dogs, ignoring interruptions from handlers. He is easily aroused; targeting them. Kid Cudi was surrendered as a stray so his past behavior with other dogs is unknown. Due to his behavior in group, we feel that Kid Cudi should the only resident dog until he has had the opportunity to learn appropriate social skills when interacting with other dogs. 12/21: When off leash at the Care Center, Kid Cudi hyper-motivated. He was jumping on the gate, barking and bouncing all around eager to meet the dog. He enters the pens with high energy, persistently body slamming into the novel female dog, and leaps over her. He ignores all interruptions and is separated due to the inexperience of the helper dog. 1/12: Kid Cudi returned to group after recovering from CIRDC and met a soft female dog. He offered a play bow at the gate and was slightly softer then his previous session. Once inside, he tenses is body and engaged hyper-motivated chase while jumping on top of the other dog’s body. Kid Cudi does not read the other dog’s body language well, and he needs to be slowed down and encouraged to take breaks in play by the handlers. He eventually becomes over aroused and begins to target the female helper dog. The session is ended and the dogs are safely separated.

Date of intake:: 12/20/2017

Summary:: Friendly and outgoing.

Date of initial:: 12/20/2017

Summary:: Friendly, excited, allows petting

ENERGY LEVEL:: Kid Cudi is a young, enthusiastic, social dog who will need daily mental and physical activity to keep him engaged and exercised.

IN SHELTER OBSERVATIONS:: 1/30/18: Kid Cudi has rapidly deteriorated behaviorally. In the last few days he has begun to bark, snap and lunge when his kennel is approached. This new behavior is most likely the stress of being housed in a shelter environment for a month. In spite of the Behavior Team’s continued enrichment efforts, he no longer is a public adoptions room candidate and should leave the care center as soon as possible.

BEHAVIOR DETERMINATION:: EXPERIENCE (suitable for an adopter with some previous dog experience, especially with the behaviors outlined below)

Behavior Asilomar: TM – Treatable-Manageable

Recommendations:: No young children (under 5),Single-pet home,Recommend no dog parks

Recommendations comments:: Due to Kid Cudi’s response to the Toy item of SAFER, indicating possible potential to guard high-value items (though he showed appropriate restraint and did not escalate), we feel Kid Cudi may be most comfortable in a home without very young children. We recommend he be taught the “drop” cue and trade-up games. _X_ Single-pet home/Recommend no dog parks: Due to the hyper-motivated behaviors that Kid Cudi has shown towards dogs at the Care Center (see GROUP BEHAVIOR SUMMARY), we feel that Kid Cudi should not visit dog parks and be the only resident dog. The Behavior Department recommends that he be socialized in a more controlled setting until his behavior towards other dogs can be further addressed and reward-based, force-free training can be utilized to help Kid Cudi develop impulse control when interacting with other dogs.

Potential challenges: : Resource guarding

Potential challenges comments:: While he gave an appropriate warning of his discomfort (tense, takes away toy), Kid did show possible potential to guard items he considers valuable. His response was appropriate and we cannot be certain if this behavior will be seen in a future home environment, but out of an abundance of concern that young children may not be able to recognize or respect Kid’s signals, we caution about this observed behavior. Older, dog savvy children can be considered pending interaction.