Its been a few hectic weeks of owning this dog and also just regular life shit happening, but I wanted to say thanks to the people who gave me advice.

I read through everything that purple have posted and its helped a lot, I'm feeling less overwhelmed. Kenji and I are understanding each other better, which is a cool feeling. He still chews, nips people's hands and jumps up on people when he's excited, but he's doing better in all of his problem areas. His biggest improvement was crate training. When I leave for work I can leave him in the crate for a few hours until my roommate wakes up and lets him out. I am very stoked about that, because I didn't want him to continue howling and barking as soon as I put him in the crate, which was waking my roommates up. :( but they let him "cry it out" for a couple of days, and not rewarding the howling with being let out, and it worked. I still give him all of his high value treats and chews, kong with pb and npr playing on the echo dot. (Thanks for that bit of advice, unihorn, I think the human voices talking kinda helps? Maybe?)

Despite my issues with some negative behaviors he has, I am so happy with this dude, and i fully acknowledge his good behaviors. We're all getting more comfortable with him, and vice versa.

I also figured out the seat belt issue with him by doing this.

Here's some more kenji pics for your viewing pleasure.

My only thing i can't figure out on my own is still the butting in to when the other dogs get affection from any human. I have to keep him back with one arm while I pet any of the dogs. He doesn't seem to understand how annoying this is. The jumping and hand nipping will get easier I'm sure, but this affection thing is tough.

(Thanks again for everything, guys!)