The fact Gov. Scott had rescued this dog should be commended, not condemned. Rescue agencies always specify the animal should be returned to them if the adoption or fostering (the article doesn’t address which in this case) does not go well. Sometimes that is indeed the case, and the dog returns to the rescue agency. It sounds to me the dog did not adjust well to its new life; if that is indeed the case, Gov. Scott did the right thing by returning him.
“(the article doesn’t address which in this case)”
Disregard that portion.. re-read the article and it appears without specificity the dog was adopted.
When you adopt an adult dog your taking your chances on it having already developed bad habits, in allot of cases that’s the reason it was dumped in the first place. Trying to break an adult dog from bad habit’s is difficult and sometimes impossible unless your going to spend 24 hrs a day working with it. How a dog acts in a kennel behind wire with 30 to 40 other dog’s is not the same as when he gets to your house and starts setting up his territory. I’ve spent most of my life raising and training bird dog’s and I never start with an adult dog. I start my dogs at 10 to 12 weeks old and by 6 months they’ve learned their job and are well disciplined. What I’m saying is I’ll waste no time on a dog that somebody else let get out of control. If a person wants to adopt an adult dog your taking your chances and be ready to get rid of that dog if the problems are too great. It sounds harsh but it’s no harsher than being dumped at a rescue center because your owner didn’t care enough about you to make sure you were properly disciplined. I’m not going to blame rescue centers for misleading people about a dog since they’ve only seen it in their environment not yours and that makes a huge difference.