Next summer, my family and I will be spending a week or so out of town and we’ll need a doggy hotel for our three dogs. Two of the dogs I know will be fine, but one I worry about. He is a two year old Rottweiler mix and extremely protective of his home and in my opinion, overly protective. Once guests are in the house, he generally calms down and wants to play. But he is still guarded with anyone that doesn’t live with us. We’re working on socializing him more and keeping things positive. At the dog park, he only wants to play with us. He’ll ignore all the other people and dogs. If another dog does try and check him out, he’ll snarl at it. We correct it right away, but its been a year of doing this and the obedience folks don’t think he’ll change much. So with that, we’re hoping for a doggy hotel that is willing to work with cautionary type dogs. We’d probably bring him in for a few hour stays here and there to see how he is. And like I said, we’re doing everything we can to cut down his anxiety over the next year. I just worry he won’t change much and he’d be too intimidating for many doggy hotels.
Any recommendations or advise is much appreciated.