The behavior you are describing is not uncommon for Chow chows . That dog was bred to keep other animals away from the farmers flock and bred to hunt down what ever came near it not just run them off.
Not really the kind of dog people should keep where they have close neighbors .
I personally don’t like the way they seem to wig out and find them to difficult to handle . Friend of mine had one and she could not even let it run her fenced yard . She had to hardwire in her porch and keep the dog in there if she did not have it leashed . Never had any trouble like that with any of the huge Mastiffs I have kept the largest being 230lbs .
Makes a lot of sense, Lera.
He was a good boy, a really great dog.
And yes, no close neighbors..he hated that. He was extremely protective.
As I said, it was the hardest thing I ever had to do. I loved him. I called him “Merly Moo.” LOL! :)
The only reason I put him down was when I had to fly to Chicago for my mother’s funeral, and I had to get both our dogs vaccinated for boarding.
Somehow, I felt like my mother was telling me that this dog was too dangerous to be around my small children. So I had our lab, Claudius, vaccinated... and then, after talking with the vet, again, I agreed to ... euthanize him. I held him and petted him as he slipped away. It was awful. But I really felt like my mother was telling me to do that.
and when I drove home, I kept having this thought: “Life is a tapestry of joy and pain.”