07-29-2017, 03:17 AM
I am glad to see emotional trauma in animals is being listened to, and that there are facilities to help them. I often meet people with "rescue dogs", who are living very nicely, and loved by their people. Yet their people often say, "He is always scared of.....sticks/men/children/being left alone/cars/etc, and there seems to be nothing I can do about it." They mention that they don't really know what happened to their dog before he was rescued, but put two and two together by what they observe.
In such cases, the dog has a great life, but will always show the scars of what happened in the past, when there is a trigger.
With Misty, it was food. She was food-obsessed and extremely protective of her food re: other people apart from me, and other dogs. That was a mark from her past -and not an unmanageable one -but told the story of her street-dog days.
In such cases, the dog has a great life, but will always show the scars of what happened in the past, when there is a trigger.
With Misty, it was food. She was food-obsessed and extremely protective of her food re: other people apart from me, and other dogs. That was a mark from her past -and not an unmanageable one -but told the story of her street-dog days.
