Baxter's lab history

Here is what the laboratory paperwork says about Baxter:

He was born on 9/19/2008 and entered the lab on 3/3/2009, when we was just 6 months old or so and had been there ever since.

They note he is jealous and once he started a fight with one of the others he was housed with because the other got to be out of the

cage with the handler. They said he was jealous. Note - these are observances from people who test on them, so please take them

with a grain of salt.

Here is a description of his personality from the lab:

"Last used on 7/6/2011" - this means he has just been sitting in the lab since then, which means EXTREMELY little human interaction.

"Newton has a very good disposition. He's very outgoing and active. We feel he would go well with kids. He gets jealous if you give other dogs attention and the "fight" looks much worse than it is.

It may be best if he was adopted our with his cage mate Orville or was the only dog in the family."

This is strange because on one piece of paper they say he was housed alone and on the other they say he was with Orville. We think they placed him alone after the fight.

We do not have any other info. I asked the technician about walks and she said they did not go on leash. They really never exited the cages except for tests.

My advice is to not take him to any dog parks until he is neutered. Walks on leash around other dogs is ok, sniffing is okay, but not too much until he's snipped :)

I think it's great focusing on getting him to trust you and other humans before that.

The potty will take a while, but once he feels safer, it will get easier. He does not understand anything right now -he's like a newborn child with no sense of right or wrong or good or bad.

Positive reinforcement in getting him to learn his name is the first step. Once he gets it, it will be easier to teach him other things.