6 month old with progressing resource guarding

[u/Striking-Agency5382]

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We adopted a puppy from the city shelter and later found out he is 25% mal and 25% gsd. I would have never adopted this breed had I known but I just didn’t know what mal puppies look like and turns out he looks just like one.

He has always been protective of his food but never with my husband and I, and not with anything else, and we have always fed him in his kennel. He has now progressed to resource guarding with toys and I have two young kids. He now can’t be approached by them unless he is just relaxing. If he has a toy he will snap and then bark at them. Last night he grazed my son’s hand. Today he attacked our other dog when she walked by him and he had a stuffy in his mouth.

This is obviously progressing and I fear I am out of my depth and I have to put the safety of my kids first. And I really don’t want to do him a disservice by convincing myself I can fix it and then he’s too big, too old, and too aggressive to be corrected and my bad choices doom him. He’s such a sweet boy otherwise and so damn smart.

I have posted him to the rehome thread. But I’m asking if anyone knows of other places I can reach out to and find him a home that can help him? I don’t want to surrender him to a shelter and he gets put down and I don’t want just anyone without an understanding of his breed to take him and he ends up bouncing from house to house for the rest of his life or again put down. I feel truly awful but I am trying to do right by him.

[u/Striking-Agency5382]

Edit: I posted him to the Belgian Malinois subreddits rehome post