New to all of this with a quick question - Page 5

you guys are seriously buing this stuff?

I read this last night and was lmao! Not just at the OP's story, but the replies. No wonder there are so many scammers in the dog world. You people are easy! Kinda reminds me of a Don Corleone story. Like the one where his puppy or dog ate the lugnuts to his wheel while he was changing a tire on the way to the airport and the dog couldn't pass through the metal detector. Funniest thing I've read on here in a while. Thank you!

If you'd worked in rescue or with shelter dogs for any period of time, you wouldn't find this story so far fetched.

Perhaps euthanasia is the key here.
Reduce the nine.

Sam,

If you were a newbie in the dog world, asked a question like this, and then got bashed, you'd be disgusted at the attitude.

If this person is indeed a troll just looking to yank chains, then consider mine yanked, but if she really is new and is just learning and has too big a heart, then she's received the best advice that can be gotten.

I worked one summer in the local animal shelter...I've seen dogs turned in for the craziest things you can imagine, including shedding.

Life has maybe jaded me enough now that I think, were I to have a dog like the one mentioned in the original post, I would have the dog euthanized...That kind of unpredictable aggression wouldn't fly with my children's wellbeing at stake.

If the OP wants to risk her skin to try and rehab a dog that is psychotic, then let her.  If she's willing to learn, really learn, and work hard, and most importantly, learn that this is not a furry human and shouldn't be treated as one, then she has a chance, I suppose.  I wish her the best of luck, and I'm retracting my chain now.

Crys

This time I truly think this board has totally sunk to the depths of insanity.  When I read the OP's initial thread yesterday, I immediately clicked off thinking....Have you got nothing better to do?  If your call is to believe this story.....I don't know what to say.(lol).  As for me even bothering to post, I don't know.  Probably because I'm so sick to death of this current wave of posts opting for the killing of damaged animals.  Kill Central could easily be construed as a new, synonymous term for the PDB.  Oh, well....in my mind, most of you have even outdone yourselves. (lol).  Now your screaming for PTS on imaginary dogs. 

 

Kill Central?

Now thats funny.

LMH,

This may be a fiction post...But there are folks out there who are really, really that naive.  As for screaming for the dog to be PTS...No one is screaming for that.  But if you were a young woman with a special needs child, would you risk it, for a dog?  I sure wouldn't.

Not all dogs were meant to live, some are so damaged due to human activities or their own genetics that they are nuts.  You think they should all be saved?  I don't.  There are millions of good dogs out there looking for homes..Why put that much effort into a psycho dog that might try to kill you, when there are hundreds of dogs in your area that will die that are perfectly fine?

Like I said before, I worked in an animal shelter for a summer...Kill shelter, mind you.  I watched some very nice dogs, with some very minor problems, get sent to the isolation area where they were euthanized, simply because there was no home to be found for them...A male Curly Coated Retriever that was euthanized because he liked to roll in his urine...a sweet female Lab mix that was euthanized because she liked to kill chickens (wow, who ever considered leashes, pens for the chickens, or a kennel for the dog, huh?)...The list goes on.  It's easy to stand there and condemn anyone who suggests that euthanasia should be the option for a dog that is dangerous, but not so easy to watch dogs be PTS that had nothing wrong with them at all.  I'd rather see the ones who are totally psychotic be PTS than the good ones who have little or nothing wrong with them, whose brains are not malfunctioning.

The GSD breed came about, as did many others, because the breeders, the early breeders, were willing to do what needed to be done to ensure the strength of the breed, even if it included culling, killing, some of the offspring.  Today, breeders rarely do that, and look how the dog breeds of today have gone downhill. 

The OP's dog, a female GSD, supposed, of indeterminate age, may now be pregnant.  She is damaged mentally, and may now add to the overpopulation problem with a litter of pups who will also be like her, which benefits who?

I have said what I thought of the situation, so I'm done here.  Misty, good luck.  You have gotten advice from some of the more knowledgeable people in our breed, and if you choose to continue to do what you are doing, then you didn't really need or want the advice.  It will not be my child who is maimed or even killed by my dog that I am so determined to save.  If you are not telling the truth about yourself and your situation as outlined in your posts, and you are in fact spinning a fiction story to get people all wound up, then you have failed, for it is no skin off my nose WHAT you choose to do, that's your business.

Crys

Really now.....ha.....ha, ha, etc.   Kill all the bad ones, and save all the good ones.  Now maybe......just maybe, it's my call to save who I want to.   Furthermore.....If I was a cynical individual, I just might think more than the OP had something to do with this thread.   Ha......but me....moi....cynical.  Na.

IF the original poster is a "troll".....this is the reason, why honest, educated, respected people don't offer their opinions.
So..to those of you who have offered an opinion and solution.....I hope this is a "real" person who made an idiotic decision....

Dogs do not have to be "abused" to act aggressive, submissive, insecure & have seizures.....MOST are simply born that way.
We tend to "humanize" them, and take some form of "human" comfort in believing these wonderful creatures MUST have been abused to have such underlying conditions.......truth is.....not usually.
The dog is a very forgiving, domesticated animal, and has shown over & over...it's unlimited tolerance to it's pack & surrounding conditions.
IF...this post & topic is true.......then I would give my opinion, that this dog has severe genetic, neurological & medical issues.
I personally think that it is SELFISH to allow an animal to suffer, whether it is physically or in it's own mind.......

Learn from mistakes, because we ALL make them.....but sometimes the most loving, caring choice in life (regarding life itself)...is letting the one(s) you love go........ 

 **again, JMO...nothing more**
Robin