11-18-2017, 04:35 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-18-2017, 07:09 AM by LPC.
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It is such a shame. These dogs were considered unadoptable because they were "bite risk" dogs, having apparently bitten people in their previous homes, and bitten shelter staff.
Who knows what they would have been like in a low-stress environment? Or in a position where they could relax and start to feel trust. Just because they had bitten people in their previous homes does not mean it all had to be their fault. We have no idea what those home environments were like.
And as we know, shelter environments always push dogs to the extreme limits of stress, hyper-activity, food agression, and sometimes depression.
Of course I wasn't there. I don't really know what these dogs were like. But I am sad to hear this; sad that a way couldn't be found to rehabilitate them with love.
And that the shelter manager should lie about it?? Now that is not good and implies some level of guilt, or he would have been able to tell the outright truth.
Who knows what they would have been like in a low-stress environment? Or in a position where they could relax and start to feel trust. Just because they had bitten people in their previous homes does not mean it all had to be their fault. We have no idea what those home environments were like.
And as we know, shelter environments always push dogs to the extreme limits of stress, hyper-activity, food agression, and sometimes depression.
Of course I wasn't there. I don't really know what these dogs were like. But I am sad to hear this; sad that a way couldn't be found to rehabilitate them with love.
And that the shelter manager should lie about it?? Now that is not good and implies some level of guilt, or he would have been able to tell the outright truth.
