.... if they were owned by someone else?
I was talking yesterday to my friend about the day I picked up Jackson. It was just a BYB- her female dog had puppies and she sold them. Anyways, the day I went to her house and looked at the two male puppies that were left, I had to make a decision which one. It was so hard because they were both so similar, and about 5 minutes after I arrived, a woman also came to pick her puppy. So it was kind of awkward because we were both there and had to pick.... I think I did 'switch' puppies with her and ended up with Jackson. Her boyfriend who was with her was like "Nu-uh, I ain't touching or holding him" and the girl lived in Washington, DC in the city in a little apartment she said... they seemed not really into it, I don't even know why they were getting a dog. I wish I could have taken both! Lol. Now obviously I'm not trying to judge, Maybe she turned out to be a great dog owner!
Anyways, I often think about if Jackson had gone to live with those people, and I really think he would be a miserable dog to live with if untrained, under exercised. He can go a few days just laying around the house if it's raining, etc, but he starts to get real whiny and needy, and
needs exercise or a walk, etc or he's
really annoying. And while I was also an inexperienced dog owner on my own, I had grown up around dogs and did some research beforehand (not enough, still) and started training him at 9 weeks old. And I really just think he would be one of those annoying dogs that nobody would want to take had he been brought up a different way!
I dunno, maybe I'm not explaining it right, but just a random thought I had!