i am an awkward swan

Jurassic Fight Night 2021

I went into his room the day after he came back, wanting to see my favorite dog. He froze up and hard stared at me. I never went into his room again. I no longer trusted him. This woman broke him. He should have been euthanized then. Instead, he was sent to foster. In assuming because we felt guilty about what he went through. He bit a coworker in the face. We still didn’t euthanize. He spent months and months in foster. The other dog in the house had a seizure - our boy got scared of this and attacked the smaller dog. The foster parent got bit pretty badly while trying to separate. We finally euthanized the dog. He was a wake up call to this behavior though.

That pretty pretty brindle girl named Tigress that I posted a couple months ago? She became so stressed at the shelter despite meds, despite 3 long walks a day, that her dog skills went from “okay” to so bad that she actually became dangerous to her handler. By herself, no dogs around, she was the sweetest, most wonderful darling. But if there was another dog in sight? No. So she was euthanized last week.

The dog that killed multiple cats (3 confirmed, likely 4) was a husky, the breed that gets the most returns for us anyway because huskies are not the correct breed for the majority of humans but people go “oh they’re so cute!”… This boy killed a feral in the play yard. We said “do not adopt if you have a cat” but we also have this “good idea in principle, bad idea on practice” (kinda like true No Kill) of “no barriers to adoption” so if someone had kids and wants to adopt a dog that is not good with kids, we can strongly advise against but if that’s who they want that’s who they get. So this husky that killed a cat was adopted to a family with a cat. He killed the cat. He was returned for killing the cat. The next guy to adopt had no cats, but left the dog unsupervised in the backyard all day. The dog killed the neighbor’s free-roaming cat that entered the backyard - another reason to not free roam your cat, you never know when a dog like this will enter the neighborhood. Dog got returned again. Third time was the charm (and average for an adoption to stick with huskies) and he’s doing fine.

We found a stray, who clearly was socialized, took it to a shelter, and they said they killed them if they hadn’t been adopted in 72 hours. This was a sweet, gorgeous, orange tom about a year old.

Killing animals in pain is different than killing animals because you don’t have room for them.

2) “almost all dogs can be saved” in my professional opinion as a dog trainer i’m inclined to disagree. you’re more than welcome to adopt all the cute doggies with serious bite histories and fix them with the power of love, i guess. let’s see how it works out!