Some people just have more capacity to love their animals than others, I could tell he loved his dog. I have a German Shepherd that has stolen my heart. She is eight years old and in good health but if she goes before me I’m afraid it would just kill me.
I don’t know how it is that some humans can acquire such an attachment to an animal but it does happen and it is wonderful when it does until one has to say goodbye to the other. If the human goes first it is extremely hard on the animal and vice versa.
I read what you wrote about your German Shepherd.
I waited 35 years to get another GSD, but I think I may have bought the wrong dog.
I strove for a year to get him trained—or tamed, might be more accurate. He’s big and very rambunctious. He’s dealt me a number of minor injuries. I can’t walk him, because he jerks hard enough to extract my skeleton. I can’t let him run free in the house, because he trots from place to place destroying whatever he can reach.
Last month I put him with a trainer. When I went to see him Thursday, he wasn’t much better. They got him some calm-down meds from the vet, and that didn’t help either. I really don’t know what I’m going to do. 35 years I wanted another dog, and I’ve ended up with an uncontrollable monster.