I’ve rescued more adult Dobermans than I can count.
Except for *one*, I hadn’t the foggiest notion of what their “history” was.
The -longest- amount of time it ever took for me to rehab one of them was 30 days and that was only because she had been so horribly abused that she simply was afraid to trust a human touching her.
In her broken mind, “touch” equaled “pain”.
At the end of those 30 days, however, she’d become the typical “Velcro Dobe” whose greatest joy was was to be petted, hugged and cuddled until *I* was exhausted.
Every time I sat down, she would trot over and plop her butt on my feet and await the loving caresses that she’d learned would always happen.
FYI, -no- breed remembers cruelty and abuse like a Dobermann does...yet not a single one ever failed to become a model canine citizen, ecstatically happy, well adjusted and joyfully obedient dog.
Thanks for attempting to condemn all the perfectly nice and deserving adult dogs in shelters to certain death with your “sage advice”.
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Should I thank you back for your crude and ignorant sarcasm? Did it make you feel better? Are you one of those who value dogs more than baby humans? Is it always the fault of the child who is mauled or killed? Would you like to READ my comments or just join the dog pile of stink along with your comrades? Emotional over reactions are not at all constructive. For the dogs or the children.
Now, let us directly examine your pre sarcasm words.
YOU took days to rehab some dogs. Good for you. But would you confidently place a “rehab” dog in an average family with small children? Would you sign over your personal and corporate assets for future liabilities? Would you disclose fully the conditions and history of the animal? Would you think it perhaps, wiser to place such an animal with some single, adult, who could give it the more direct and mature care it may need?
Just because YOU spent some time with some particular dog, does not cover any other dogs. Certainly not the vast wet blanket of ALL dogs you cast at me. Condemning all the dogs in shelters to death? I don’t think I used ANY of those words... Of course, you cover it with the usual caveats, “perfectly nice and deserving”. Could that be any less scientific if we tried? WHAT does that even mean... no no, I am not serious. Don’t try. I could mean whatever is convenient for the moment.
I would call it funny, that the only objections to “my opinions” are the “opinions” of others... laced with more open ended generalities and heart tugging emotions than a “Lifetime Original Movie”... but it surely isn’t funny and it surely isn’t debate.