Dog Owner Chat V. 5

[eleutheromania]

like said earlier. you need to research the breed and what it’s needs are. you should not be choosing a dog breed because it’s adorable/cute/fluffy etc. you need to take in to account your life style, income, grooming needs, training, size, and temperament. i also do suggest fostering if able to before you decide on what you want.

[wolfi.]

like said earlier. you need to research the breed and what it’s needs are. you should not be choosing a dog breed because it’s adorable/cute/fluffy etc. you need to take in to account your life style, income, grooming needs, training, size, and temperament. i also do suggest fostering if able to before you decide on what you want.

Yeah I will definitely look into that, and I get that it can't just be based off of cute and fluffiness, I just wanted to add that into the sentence because I love all dogs that's all lol sorry for any miscommunication :3

[Imzadi83]

My life just went upside down in one day . Long story so I'm just going to try and shorten it. My parents have worked for this company for over like 17 years. I've been working with them the past like 3. well our boss is closing offices down and ours is one. So come June I'll be jobless. But the real kicker is that my parents are going to work out the new office he's going to have outside of Atlanta, GA (4 hours away from where my hometown is). So they are going to be moving the family up there. And I'm left with a hard choice. i can move up there and have my job still and Killian.(which will be leaving being my friends and most importantly my boyfriend of almost 4 years). Of I can try to stay down here but i can't afford a place of my own. plus i have to find a new job. I can stay with my Boyfriend but He is not allowed to have pets. he's suppose to try and work it out with the landlord but no promises. And the other place already has reached its pet limit. So theres a chance I might have to find Killian a new home and I really don't wanna loose him

Sorry to hear you're going through that. *hugs*

[oddball1234]

My life just went upside down in one day . Long story so I'm just going to try and shorten it. My parents have worked for this company for over like 17 years. I've been working with them the past like 3. well our boss is closing offices down and ours is one. So come June I'll be jobless. But the real kicker is that my parents are going to work out the new office he's going to have outside of Atlanta, GA (4 hours away from where my hometown is). So they are going to be moving the family up there. And I'm left with a hard choice. i can move up there and have my job still and Killian.(which will be leaving being my friends and most importantly my boyfriend of almost 4 years). Of I can try to stay down here but i can't afford a place of my own. plus i have to find a new job. I can stay with my Boyfriend but He is not allowed to have pets. he's suppose to try and work it out with the landlord but no promises. And the other place already has reached its pet limit. So theres a chance I might have to find Killian a new home and I really don't wanna loose him

Sorry to hear you're going through that. *hugs*

*hugs back* I'm just really tore up right now, especially at the thought that I might have to find him a new home. I still have a few months to sort everything out but I just hope something works out.

[wolfi.]

My life just went upside down in one day . Long story so I'm just going to try and shorten it. My parents have worked for this company for over like 17 years. I've been working with them the past like 3. well our boss is closing offices down and ours is one. So come June I'll be jobless. But the real kicker is that my parents are going to work out the new office he's going to have outside of Atlanta, GA (4 hours away from where my hometown is). So they are going to be moving the family up there. And I'm left with a hard choice. i can move up there and have my job still and Killian.(which will be leaving being my friends and most importantly my boyfriend of almost 4 years). Of I can try to stay down here but i can't afford a place of my own. plus i have to find a new job. I can stay with my Boyfriend but He is not allowed to have pets. he's suppose to try and work it out with the landlord but no promises. And the other place already has reached its pet limit. So theres a chance I might have to find Killian a new home and I really don't wanna loose him

Sorry to hear you're going through that. *hugs*

*hugs back* I'm just really tore up right now, especially at the thought that I might have to find him a new home. I still have a few months to sort everything out but I just hope something works out.

Aww, i hope everything works out for you! You never now when a miracle will happen, maybe you will be able to live with your boyfriend and he will work something out with the landlord so that you can keep your faithful Killian :3 *Hugs a big hug*

[Skysong]

I bought a pack of bully sticks from my workplace after finding out we carried them.

Thor took to them right away. Lilly only ate half of the one I gave her and Thor swooped in and finished hers off. Lilly doesn’t like them I don’t think. Thor in the other hand 😂

[eleutheromania]

went to the rail trail today. couldn't really go off the paved
section because it was so wet but we still got some work done.

[Faybell]

Oddball: I’m so sorry, I hope everything works out. You still have some time left so something can always change for the better. :<

[Catheren]

I was walking my new dog around the block today and spooked some wildlife in the bushes and I had a weird realization. My new dog is nowhere near bonded enough to me to be willing to maul someone if I get jumped walking him in the middle of the night.

This thought occurred to me because my old dog once almost attacked my husband- someone she knew and loved dearly- because he'd decided to be an idiot and tried play a prank by crouching in and jumping out of the bushes while I was walking her in the middle of the night. He didn't even get to jump out of the bushes, she saw him crouching in the shadows and went right to barking and snarling because apparently my dog was smarter than most people and recognizes 'suspicious behavior' on sight. I'd never seen a person rethink a prank so fast in my life.

*I'd like to put a note here, this was not a response typical of my dog to literally anything, she was very friendly and if she was so much as raising her hackles at a stranger I took it as a sign of something being terribly wrong, so this was very alarming for the both of us. I thought she was going to maul a stranger without knowing why in the WORLD she would do that, aaaand my husband thought he was going to get eaten by our family pet. But he stood up out of the bushes and made all the usual sounds of an owner calming their pet and she realized it was him before I even realized he was trying to play a prank on me.

In fact, it almost happened a second time when I left to walk the dog without him and didn't know he was joining me, he took a shortcut through the same exact bushes and timed coming out of them perfectly wrong.

[Imzadi83]

I was walking my new dog around the block today and spooked some wildlife in the bushes and I had a weird realization. My new dog is nowhere near bonded enough to me to be willing to maul someone if I get jumped walking him in the middle of the night.

This thought occurred to me because my old dog once almost attacked my husband- someone she knew and loved dearly- because he'd decided to be an idiot and tried play a prank by crouching in and jumping out of the bushes while I was walking her in the middle of the night. He didn't even get to jump out of the bushes, she saw him crouching in the shadows and went right to barking and snarling because apparently my dog was smarter than most people and recognizes 'suspicious behavior' on sight. I'd never seen a person rethink a prank so fast in my life.

*I'd like to put a note here, this was not a response typical of my dog to literally anything, she was very friendly and if she was so much as raising her hackles at a stranger I took it as a sign of something being terribly wrong, so this was very alarming for the both of us. I thought she was going to maul a stranger without knowing why in the WORLD she would do that, aaaand my husband thought he was going to get eaten by our family pet. But he stood up out of the bushes and made all the usual sounds of an owner calming their pet and she realized it was him before I even realized he was trying to play a prank on me.

In fact, it almost happened a second time when I left to walk the dog without him and didn't know he was joining me, he took a shortcut through the same exact bushes and timed coming out of them perfectly wrong.

There was a study done of dogs to see how they would act if an intruder broke into their home. Most owners thought that the dogs would attack or try to run off the intruder, most dogs didn't. Many acted friendly towards them. Really if a dog isn't trained for personal protection I wouldn't expect it. Although just the dogs presence is often a deterrent since at the least they have the potential to make a lot of noise and draw attention.

On a personal note our late dog would go after my mom if she pretended to go after me. Gumdrop would rush over and grab Mom's wrist and hold it in her mouth. She wouldn't bite down but it was clearly a threat.