The worst part of the walk is when we encounter someone on the street. She calms down a bit, but I can tell that she’s still pretty jumpy. The best I can do for her in that situation is reassure her that everything is okay, though I’m not sure she even hears what I’m saying she’s so excited. If a car is coming our way, she’ll panic and drag me to the side of the road, making high pitched sounds and frantic motions. On our very first walk, I had noticed that she was pretty high strung and it hasn’t gotten any better. Anyway, I take her for lots of walks every day – good exercise for both of us and sometimes I’ve just got to get out of that house and breathe some fresh air and clear my mind. I’ve lived in a city and can handle all the commotion and people and loose dogs, but I think she’d just flip out. I don’t think she’d be able to handle living in a city. We live in a pretty quiet neighborhood, which is a good thing. She forgets every now and then, but I just yell at her a little and she gives up. We also had a “discussion” about the couch and the bed – it took a while for her to understand that when I was relaxing, she had no right to disturb me. I guess she’s pretty smart, because after that she let me do whatever I wanted to with the bowl whether there was food in it or not.

There was a little incident with the food bowl, but I let her know in no uncertain terms that her behavior was not acceptable. Her aggressive behavior is destroying our relationship and I don’t know how to stop her. I guess it was all just so new to her that she was being extra good, extra careful in all her dealings with me. Looking back, I can see some signs of trouble brewing but at the time, they didn’t seem important.

I did wonder why no one had claimed her.įor the first couple of months, we didn’t really have any problems. Her background is a mystery, but she seemed very sweet and looking for someone to love.

I found her wandering on the streets so I don’t know how old she is or where she came from. “Harry” agreed that this is a pretty accurate interpretation of his tale. This case history is taken from an actual case “Harry T.” is not his real name – it seemed kinder to keep the names of the real people & dog out of the story.

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