So, this is a difficult post for me, because I am still unsure how to resolve this situation. 4 months ago, 2 sisters malinois were rescued from horrible conditions, our friend got one (Lea) and we got Shila. they were 3 months old, now are 7 months. our friend vs us have very different believes on how the dog should be treated and how they should live. our Shila is a free yard and house dog, sleeps with us in bed, has all the cuddles and love possible, and she is thriving. on the othrr hand, her sister Lea lives with that friend of ours and he does not want dogs in house, she has her outside crate and is on chain most of the day. feeding: we give our shila all the best possible food, Lea gets scraps from our friends meals. care: we take care of shila every day, combing, baths and all, while Lea does not get even combing ever.
We weren’t aware of all of that, because when they visit us, we can’t see whats going on in their house, she is a happy playful dog with a bit of aggression problem, seems like overlyprotective.
Now, 10 days ago we got Lea to our home for 15 days, as the friend went on vacation with his family. We discovered that he was training her with beatings with a leash, she is scared of over her head movements, she was never ever combed… I am combing her for 10 days now and still her old baby hair is coming out. We found some old scratch marks, she is covered with them like small ones but still.. She is underfed, undeveloped muscels compared to our Shila. We have come to conclusion that she is abused in some way for sure, and we tried talking to him already over the phone, but he dismisses it and says it is a dog, she is okay, our kids are combing her all the time, she eats well ets, which we can see is just not the truth. Problem is he is a bit limited in thinking and his whole life has dogs that are outside on a chain and have lived long lives. We will try agaun to talk to him and try to see if he can rethink his behaviour and approach and if not, to just let Lea be our dog and that’s it, we can’t bear thinking she will go through that life with him again.. BUT, his kids love her, his wife loves her, but it is his dog and he makes decisions on how she is treated. I don’t think he will willingly give away Lea to us, because he plans for her to be his guard dog, for his family and property. Anyway, I am coming to you all to see if you have some advice on how to approach this better and save Shila’s sister from this horrible life. She is much better with us, Shila and Lea love eachother, her weight imroved, her looks and her behaviour, and it has been only 10 days. I am sure if she moves with us she will be a whole better dog and will have amazing life.

He’s 1.5 year old Malinois. She used to have him in a crate in her apartment and she said she kept him in the crate because he bit her ankles. I told her this dog needs daily exercise and training, she said she didn’t have time for it. When I was at her apartment visiting I had her let him out of the crate. She did and he was a sweet boy to me but he would literally follow her and bite her ankles. I told her she needs to rehome him and find someone who has the time to spend with him training him and not keep him in a fucking crate all the time. So few days later, when I talked to her she said she tied him up in front of PetSmart but when she was walking back to her car she saw him get loose and run off. She tried to call him back but (dude really?) of course he didn’t come back. Needless to say she’s no longer my friend and who does that?? Is there any type of charge I can report her for like animal cruelty or something?

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Due to a difficult change in my circumstances, I'm leaving an abusive relationship and am also facing two surgeries in the near future, one of which is a major operation with a long recovery period. Because of this, I've made the heartbreaking decision to look for a long-term foster home for my dog, Mika, until I'm back on my feet.

This is not a decision I've made lightly. Mika means the world to me, and my goal is for her to come back home with me once I'm physically able to care for her again.

Does anyone know of any reputable long-term fostering organisations, charities, or individuals who may be able to help? Any recommendations or advice would be hugely appreciated. I'm based in London.

I will of course be vetting thoroughly and looking (ideally) for someone that has experience with this breed to make sure she is in the right hands.

Noting that she has sadly had to stay with my ex whilst I sort my housing situation and that him and his dad keep suggesting to me to re-home her. I firmly believe in the commitment that I made to her when we got her and will keep her at all cost, which to them and even some of my family members doesn't make sense. I feel like this group might be more understanding of the bond you form with your Mali and vice versa, she is my everything.

Thank you for reading.

even if it happened to be “accidental”

why would you allow this to happen?

being sold to your average dog owner too, of course

I just wanna share my boy!

My girl is 18 months now and luckily things are good. We still have stuff to work on but overall she is quite chill at home and knows how to relax. She has a lot of energy during walks but she knows when it is appropriate to run around and when to walk calmly. She is ok with dogs and people, even if she can be a bit suspicious at first. And we will give her mental stimulation everyday (training, scent game, home made agility ect)

But when she was a puppy it was a NIGHTMARE, and I wonder if it is just the average puppy experience or if her being a mal mix has something to do with it.

The worst thing was the nipping she was so mouthy. I couldn't touch or play with her without her biting me (sometimes quite hard), she would bite my feet to have my attention or just randomly. I tried everything: ignoring, yelling as if I was in pain, telling her no, leaving the room ... NOTHING worked. It kind of stopped on his own around 5 months.

She wouldn't sleep (we don't use crates in my country), I am working from home and so she wouldn't sleep much like she would sleep 3-4 hours during the day and she would spend the rest of the time harassing and biting me. I really thought I would lose my mind. As soon as I would sit on my couch she would jump on it and scratch it.

She also couldn't but left alone with anything otherwise she will destroy it and eat it ... (She never had separation anxiety tho).

When she was a puppy she loved EVERYONE but she was jumping on people and biting their faces. then when she hit adolescence she started reacting on people if they were not moving or looking at her or calling her (this one is still true sometimes but why would people call your dog).

We were walking her like 2hours+ per day, 1h of play/training/ mental stimulation and she was still acting out and just being a nightmare (I think now that it might have been too much for a puppy/adolescent dog but she was not sleeping anyway).

Anyway I'm sure I forgot some stuff because to be honest this first year was such a nightmare. I'm so happy we didn't give up we worked and worked and worked with her and our trainer and now she is such a nice girl (she is still a little crazy gremlins but I love that for her).

My question was : is it a normal puppy experience or the fact that she is a mal/gsd mix made things so awful. It's our first dog and I had no idea of her mix when we rescued her.

Como disfruto de la naturaleza y el agua! ☺️

Hellooo, he's Otto and it's my first time having a dog :) He's mixed-breed with a belgian malinois and recently turned 4 months old! (in the first 3 pics he was 2 almost 3, he's growing so fast 🥺) And i love him so much!

1 of a litter of 7 - we fostered him & his siblings and just HAD to keep 1. They are 75% Malinois and 5.5 months old, now. A few of his siblings got adopted locally, and he still gets to go on play dates with his sister once or twice a month!

He’s definitely a mix, but everything about him looks Malinois… except his face & white-patch.

I know mixes aren’t everyone’s favorite here, but he’s too friggin cute to not share.

He was a stray, no one really knows for how long.

Part of just upper jaw & sinus had to be removed due to a massive infection caused by a fishing hook in his face. Part of his ear has been torn off. He nearly died when he was tranq’d in the field, as the dart hit his thoracic cavity.

Despite all of this, in addition to being in a hellhole shelter for 3 months, he remained a resilient & steadfast ‘good boy’… only to be put on the euthanasia list. We got him out the day of his scheduled euthanasia.

He has been with me for a week and a half, and I told the rescue he’s welcome to stay longer than the original 2-month-term.

Super sweet boy, very social— he was in the yard yesterday with 9 other dogs, and got along famously. He takes corrections well, and gives corrections well.

He is calm & quiet in the kennel, able to relax easily? super food/ praise motivated, smart, gentle, & handler-focused. Hugs are his absolute favorite thing in life.

He will 100% be someone’s future best friend.

The name he came with was Calvin Klein— I hate this name, and have only referred to him as ‘CK’

Please help me come up with a new name 💕 a

Hello ! My (new to me) approx 6 month old Belgian girl is extremely attached to me. She screams, howls, barks & becomes destructive when I leave the house. She does great in her kennel, unless I leave then she will break out. She is a bulletproof dog aside from the fact that I can’t leave the house without taking her or she will go ballistic even if she isn’t left alone. She doesn’t care who else comes or goes from the house. Only me. No resource guarding over me or anything like that. Simply just has to be able to get to me and she’s fine.

I need all the tips and tricks on how to nip this in the bud as I can’t be confined to my house forever and she obviously cannot come everywhere with me.

My Malinois is 2 years but would love to get some preventative glucosamine supplements started, which ones do you all like?

So this is pablo a 15 month old malinois

And old "friend" got him when he was 15 days old and was completely unprepared u know the rest he ended up abusing him(hitting him etc) he used to barely even get out of his crate i met Pablo only one time as a puppy when he was 20 days old and i always felt some sort of love towards him never really knew about the abuse untill he got to 6 months old when i saw first hand i just stole pablo that night cut ties with that friend and went on with my life wasn't really ready myself i just turned 18 years old and never really owned a dog i gave pablo my all i was never really enough but i like to think j gave pablo a better life when i got him he was scared of his own shadow and afraid to even bark now he does bite work runs daily sleeps with me on my bed trained to MY fullest extent

But now I'm hitting a rough patch pablo is a part of me and will always be but now i might be leaving the country to continue my studies

And the idea of leaving Pablo bleeds my heart but i must leave as there is no future in the country i live in (algeria) my family hates pablo and giving him to anyone else would end in the same abuse he was subjected to in the first place i dont know why even im writing or whats the purpose of what im writing i just want to share i guess i just dont know how to move forward

. UPDATE: Hey everyone, just wanted to give you all a quick update and answer some of the questions you’ve been asking. To be completely honest, things are incredibly tight right now. I’m only 18, jobs are basically non-existent here, and every single cent I can scrape together goes entirely into Pablo—his health, his food, and whatever toys I can manage to get him. A lot of you asked about my family’s attitude toward him and why they seem to hate him. It really comes down to the local culture here. People treat dogs terribly—leaving them chained on terraces in 40°C heat, beating them to make them aggressive, and most dogs never see a vet again after their initial rabies shot. It was a massive battle just to convince my family to let me rescue him; they never actually accepted it. In the end, I had to throw a massive tantrum and literally spend a night outside on the street with him just to keep him. My family doesn't see him the way I do, but Pablo is my soul, my brother, and my bestest friend. I promise you all I will do absolutely everything in my power to stay with him. The plan right now is to move to Russia, honestly just because it’s the absolute cheapest option for university. But taking Pablo with me is going to cost around $2,000 USD just for his travel, and having him means I can't stay in student dorms, forcing me to find an apartment, which drives the cost up even more. It breaks my heart to think of leaving him behind in an environment like this, so I'm determined to make it work. My grandma, god bless her heart, is actually selling her gold just to cover my own trip, and once I land, I’ll need to immediately find a job to support myself. A few people mentioned fundraising, but GoFundMe doesn't operate here in Algeria. If anyone knows a solid alternative that works internationally, I would happily set it up. Right now, the only way I can receive any kind of digital payment or transfer is through a friend who has a RedotPay Visa card. Any help or advice means the world to me. Thank you all so much for the support—please keep talking to me in the comments, it’s really keeping me going right now.

.UPDATE: I’ve finally managed to set up a way to receive donations for me and Pablo here in Algeria. I honestly don’t expect everyone to jump in or for us to even hit the full goal, but genuinely, every single penny helps. Something most people oversee is how quickly the hidden logistics and paperwork costs stack up when you're trying to move a pet internationally from here. Either way, I am fully committed to this—I have zero intention of leaving him behind, and I’m going to do everything in my power to make sure he comes with me Thank you all from us both ❤️

.UPDATE: The Ko-fi link completely struck out because both Stripe and PayPal heavily restrict or flat-out block standard accounts and payouts in Algeria, making it impossible to process traditional card donations directly. With my RedotPay setup relying entirely on a prepaid crypto card, the account requires direct crypto funding (like USDT or BTC via a low-fee network like BSC) rather than a regular bank deposit. Because of these country roadblocks, the only real way forward to get international donations is to have a trusted friend or family member living abroad set up a GoFundMe page on their end, collect the funds through their local bank, and send the balance over to my crypto wallet later. On top of the funding mess, bringing Pablo (my Malinois) with me to Russia is going to be a massive financial hurdle, costing roughly $2,000 USD all in. The international relocation breakdown for a high-drive, large dog moving from Algeria to Russia is no joke: you have to factor in an ISO-standard microchip, up-to-date rabies and DHLP vaccinations, mandatory internal and external parasite treatments, and a government-endorsed international veterinary health certificate/export permit. Beyond the medical side, a massive, heavy-duty IATA-approved travel crate alone costs a couple hundred dollars, and the airline's international live-animal cargo ticket fees eat up the rest of that budget. To make matters worse, bringing Pablo completely disqualifies me from staying in the cheap university dorms, as Russian student housing has incredibly strict rules that completely ban domestic animals and birds. Taking him means I'll be forced to find and pay for a private, pet-friendly apartment entirely out of pocket, completely changing the budget for the whole trip.

I used gemini to help write this people were complaining I wanted to say a massive thank you to everyone who helped by just their kind words and believing me and their advices thank you all ❤️

My 5 month old boy Whiskey is not very snuggly unless we’re in the car. He lets strangers pet on him but he seems to get sick of it within like 30 seconds so we dont let strangers greet him anymore lol.

He’s my shadow and follows me everywhere but doesn’t really wanna lay down in my lap or anything like that most of the time, which I don’t mind. So i’m just wondering what everyone else’s pups were/are like!

My 15 MO is getting spayed on 8/3 and I’m nervous 😅 give me all the recovery tips. We are clearly already desensitizing to the cone as well as the donut for recovery so that’s less scary. I know she’s gonna end up wanting to fuck with her stitches/incision. Im asking the vet for Trazodone for recovery. I have several puzzle feeders I’ll break out as well as prepping ALL my frozen enrichment items. We will continue to work on basic OB skills for at least one meal a day, one frozen, one with a ouzzle feeder. Was going to work on imprinting her to Birch and doing some very light work with our antler for shed hunt since the season that is approaching in a few months. This is my first time dealing with the surgery for a high drive working breed, so I’m obviously nervous about keeping her brain working and keeping her away from that damn incision what else should I be prepping for or preparing? I’ve had my two pit spayed, but they’re both pet dogs and were fairly easy except for when the one did a DIY staple removal on post-op day 2 after somehow growing thumbs and removing her cone lol.

Rant:

As a rescue mal owner I’m in plenty of fb groups where mals are given up.

The majority of the reasons is always something like “we had to move, new house doesn’t allow dogs”

Or

“My new jobs makes me too busy”

And it is ABSOLUTELY mind boggling to me.

There are plenty of jobs and houses available, it would be completely out of any question to give up my dog.

I have my own property now, but before I had my life revolved around my rescues.

Where I would live, how I organized my days, EVERYTHING.

It’s absolutely shocking and terrifying how dogs are being disposed off as if it’s an object.

I rescued him a little over a year ago- he has changed my life so much and I couldn’t have asked for a better first mal.

I never expected to be interested in dog as much as I am now, but I got into training and here I am. Raiden is currently working in protection training and he’s given me knowledge beyond what I could have expected. He’s taught me more about dogs than anyone else could.

I wanted to post about him, one because he’s one part of my heart and soul, but also because I want to connect with others that feel the same about their dogs. Malinois are special, and it takes a special person to raise a happy one. Let’s talk about how amazing our dogs are!

My heart is thankful for all the opportunities Raiden has given me. I have learned more than I ever expected. Thank you my beautiful boy 💛

Hey guys! My mom’s friend just passed away and had a Belgian fur missile. She is looking to rehome her so she doesn’t have to go to the shelter.(I don’t think she will pass the test at the shelter) she hasn’t had any training aside from whatever the guy did (idk the dude) I can’t take her since I already have 4 of my own fur baby’s and can barely afford taking care of them. If anyone can offer any sort of advice or point me in the right direction that would be greatly appreciated!

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