Cynikoi(I)

The normal advice for this is training games, sports, etc. Keeso likes trying new things and he is motivated to train, but he doesn't love it for its own sake (he is super food motivated). He doesn't enjoy repetitive/"loopy" training. I can do trick training here and there, but that doesn't fill his cup and it hardly gives him a fulfilling "job."

I'd try hunting with him but I'm not sure where I'd start with it. He isn't a specialized hunter. He'll track, but he's too sighthound to wait for me to dispatch the prey animal. It's not legal to course rabbits or large game with him in my state. I can contrive hunting games, and may try that. I could probably get him to indicate shed antlers, if not retrieve them. Dunno if I have the training chops for that.

Right now Keeso's greatest joys in his life are to eat and to control other dogs. Now that he's neutered, he doesn't seem to care as much about marking, and I'm hoping his domineering tendencies will subside some, too. He doesn't need anything from me, really, except for the part of him that desperately needs me to stay in his presence at all times.

(Maybe there's an argument here that we shouldn't be bringing such generalized/"primitive" dogs into most "modern" environments/routines, but I'm not smart or motivated enough to try and make it right now.)

Just dropped Keeso off at the vet for his neuter. I hated leaving him there — I’ve always been with him at the vet, they’ve always let me handle him for vaccines and such.