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Originally Posted by SJK1113  Oh, that poor baby! I don't know how anyone can abuse a little (or any) dog like that. Since the shelter is so close, is it possible for you to go and visit him everyday for a little while? Maybe if he's at the shelter and you visit him and take him a toy or treat and just sit with him and talk to him and hold him, he will begin to trust you. It might help because he'll see that you keep coming back and that you're good to him. I sure would at least give it a try. And, it would help you be able to see him which might make you feel a little better. I think he's just scared and he's acting out (out of fear) because he doesn't know who he can trust. I worry that he won't be able to be rehomed because of his behavior issues, and it's so not fair to him because it's not his fault that he was abused. Poor baby! The people who abused him should be shot! 
Good luck to you! |
Thanks for your idea, but I just don't think I can do that. Here's why. First, if I go down there, and he does begin to trust me, and I bring him home, only to start the cycle all over again, I cannot give him up again. It hurt too much this time. I can't go through it another time.
Second, I think he does trust me, to a certain extent, and at one point I did believe he was acting out of fear. We corrected a lot of that fear behavior. This, however, I don't think is fear. The obedience trainer and I have talked before I gave up Rascal, and she agrees. She basically told me that I was doing more harm by keeping him here, because although I had tried, I couldn't do anything else for him with this 'demon' behavior.
However, I do agree with you about this baby being abused. I know the people who did it to him, and I just want to hurt them. It makes me so angry that this dog could have been a wonderful dog, but instead, he is living a life of hell right now, all because of them.
Thanks for your advice, though. I am just so afraid that it wouldn't work if I brought him back. And, as I said, he could already be gone to Small Animal Rescue. I don't know. We were told, both by the shelter director, and our obedience trainer friend, to make a clean break from him. That we had done everything in our power to help him, but he chose to leave. I don't know if I can make the break yet, but I don't think it's a good idea to go and see him, for I WOULD bring him home.
~Melena