There has been a recent post here about SN2 being accessible early.

Please don’t be that person. We can all wait two more days.

Edit:

Some of you restored my faith in humanity, and some of you are downright childish.

I will die on this hill proudly.

I’ve come to terms that some people have the impulse control of a toddler.

If you can’t afford it, save up and wait.

EA launch day is for die hard fans who have waited for this for years. Not for impatient children who refuse to wait for things they want.

Early access launch day isn’t for people who want games for free.

I have a 6yo fixed male beagle I adopted at 1yo. He was pretty badly abused before I adopted him.

Since then, he’s had constant marking and reactivity issues.

This has been a long time in the making, I have tried most things including a two week training program. He can heel and do a whole bunch of tricks now, but is still territorial and insecure.

He’s walked and played with daily, the entire house has been scrubbed with enzyme cleaner. Currently I’m working on resolving the marking by extinction. He wears a belly band I check multiple times a day so he never actually successfully marks. He’s let out multiple times a day, (I have quadruple checked with his vet that it’s not an incontinence issue or a uti, he is let out enough and his urinary tract is perfectly healthy)

Along with that, he’s extremely reactive. He immediately raises his hackles and barks/growls at any other dogs. I have worked on this with him for years, and as long as I’m with him, he’s fine. He can heel and walk past dogs on a walk with no issues, but only if I’m there and he is on a lead. It’s bizarre having a dog I can safely bring to a pet friendly restaurant and he sleeps under the table the whole time, and then at home if he sees a dog through the window he’s screaming at the top of his lungs.

If I’m out of sight, or he’s with my partner, suddenly it’s like he was never trained. He is inconsolable when he sees another dog, sneaks off to mark (and sometimes marks directly in front of us), and our most recent dog sitter (who is a former vet tech) said she never wants to pet sit him again with how reactive and territorial he was.

He is never aggressive towards people, if anything he just ignores people when he wants to do his own thing.

He’s kenneled while I’m at work, does great in his kennel, doesn’t bark, and sleeps most of the day when alone. I can safely leave him out and he’s not destructive, but I chose to kennel him since I don’t want him barking through our glass door at other dogs.

I’m alright being with him most of the time, it’s the only way he behaves, but I’m worried he’s really unhappy. The constant insecurity and marking makes me think he’s unhappy overall.

He’s great with kids, people, doesn’t resource guard, settles well, all things you’d expect of a well adjusted dog, it’s *just* the marking and dog reactivity.

I’d appreciate any advice. Most of the advice I see online is for dogs that are territorial and insecure with people, not just to other dogs, so I’m really at a loss on how to fix it at this point.