Dog in Car Accident

[PresaRed]

Hey Butch, I have a question for you regarding my nine month old male Presa.

3 nights ago he was hit by an SUV in front of my house. The accident looked quite serious at first, and I actually thought he was going to be dead as I saw him rolling along the street. However he immediately got up and ran for about 3 blocks until I finally caught him.

I took him to the vet, and he spent the night there, nothing was broken, and besides some internal bruising and trouble going to the washroom everything seems to be ok.

Before the accident took place I had him evaluated by Chello, and I was planning on starting full time training with him at the end of the month.

My concern is that, the last couple of days when I've taken him for short walks he seems more nervous then I've ever seen him since I've had him, at one point when we were walking by the place he was hit, he had his tail between his legs for the first time.

Do you have any suggestions for getting him back on track mentally for PP work? and have you heard of dogs that have gone through similar situations?

Mark

[ButchCappel]

Mark,

Glad there were no serious injuries to your pup.
As to permanent damage? The ability to recover, reshape, and rebound, is much greater when we are young,so I don't think you will have any long term problems. keep walking him past the spot of trauma, without any other spooky actions of course, and he should recover.

If you have little progress after 60 days but he is doing well in his ScH training you can use some of the bite work exercises to help in the problem.
If that is the case you can contact me because typing all that in a post would be very time consuming but I would be glad to dioscuss it on the phone.

[PresaRed]

Thanks for the response Butch.

It's been a week since the accident and Choque already seems to be doing much better. He is still not comfortable around traffic, but that is coming along.

I took him to my parents place for a few days so we could get away from all the city traffic and he could be around my female Presa, it seems to have helped alot in getting him in a better mood.

I actually won't be starting training with Chello until the end of this month, as I have to finish writing exams for university, and I don't want other things on my mind when I get started with the training.

Now the only thing I have to deal with is the guy who hit him says I owe him 1500 dollars for the damage to his SUV.

Mark