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Shelter madness.....
12 years ago
The last 2 days have been very eventful here... And what made them eventful? Yes right, ANIMALS <3 well dogs to be more precise. On Sunday we got a huge, a really, really HUGE Kangal. I mean-did I mention that he is huge?! Gorgeous boy, I am totally in love already <3 His head- IT IS ENORMOUS OMG!!! He weighs 110kg and has a height (ground to shoulder) of 90 cm (35.43 inch). I "tried" to take him out for a walkies but- ehehehe, well, that was my flying, he is not at all trained and well...yeah, HUGE Kangal vs. Natalie=> Kangal wins :'D Never mind, he will learn <3 I'll take some photos so you can fall in love with him too!
Next, yesterday. Nightmare-day. At least my personal "no, this was far from being a good day". Max decided to have an outrage again, this time it was another dog's fault. How dare he exist!!!! He saw the other one in the distance, got angry-don't ask why, nobody can tell you what gets him THAT angry- and the next second he was hanging on my hand. Ouchie ;o; It is all green and blue with a little hole in it-even tho I did wear leather gloves and my warmest, thickest winter jacket. The problem is, that he won't only bite once but several times, he won't let go easily and he bites hard. I am in contact now with a real pro-trainer who is specialized in working with shelter dogs, she is from Austria and will come to Germany soon. I put all my hope in her to find a good and working training method. Of course without violence, no chain-collars, no screaming, no yelling, not being rough. NO muzzle. Those are the conditions I have but I got to meet her 7 years ago and she works the gentle, animal-friendly way so that is so cool. I am really excited to see her again <3
The real nightmare also happened yesterday. We have this new Rottweiler, Zeus, and he pretty fast found lovely people who liked him and wanted to adopt him. Until they had the wife's mother with them to meet him... She is a sweet lady and wanted to pet him. It all happened so quickly, she suddenly screamed and all I then could see was blood. He bit a 2,75 inch piece of her hand off! We called the ambulance and she was rushed to hospital. The really bad thing is that she is a professional piano player, she plays in an orchestra ;o; The cords are ruined and it is uncertain if she'll ever recover completely. This is a disaster, for her and of course for the dog. He now is declared dangerous and we are not allowed to find a new family for him. He has to do a test first-which right now he'd drastically fail. Another dog we have to keep longer than expected... The lucky winner to train him is: me. I am the only one who is allowed to train dangerous dogs. I have an official piece of paper giving me this permission. Originally we were 6 people but from those 6 I am the only one left ;o; This makes him dog number 5 I train without ever seeing a cent for it, risking my health. In the last couple of month I actually tried to train/teach our other volunteers to handle those kind of dogs but-holy cow either my expectations are way too high or they are totally incapable <_<" No feeling for the animal, for the emotions, body-language (come on, if the dog growls I stop whatever I am doing STRAIGHT AWAY?!) Gah so yes, I am a little bit angry, a little-huge-bit distressed and in somehow I think I need a tiny holiday <3 Which of course won't happen, haha, I am a dog-junkie :'D
Next, yesterday. Nightmare-day. At least my personal "no, this was far from being a good day". Max decided to have an outrage again, this time it was another dog's fault. How dare he exist!!!! He saw the other one in the distance, got angry-don't ask why, nobody can tell you what gets him THAT angry- and the next second he was hanging on my hand. Ouchie ;o; It is all green and blue with a little hole in it-even tho I did wear leather gloves and my warmest, thickest winter jacket. The problem is, that he won't only bite once but several times, he won't let go easily and he bites hard. I am in contact now with a real pro-trainer who is specialized in working with shelter dogs, she is from Austria and will come to Germany soon. I put all my hope in her to find a good and working training method. Of course without violence, no chain-collars, no screaming, no yelling, not being rough. NO muzzle. Those are the conditions I have but I got to meet her 7 years ago and she works the gentle, animal-friendly way so that is so cool. I am really excited to see her again <3
The real nightmare also happened yesterday. We have this new Rottweiler, Zeus, and he pretty fast found lovely people who liked him and wanted to adopt him. Until they had the wife's mother with them to meet him... She is a sweet lady and wanted to pet him. It all happened so quickly, she suddenly screamed and all I then could see was blood. He bit a 2,75 inch piece of her hand off! We called the ambulance and she was rushed to hospital. The really bad thing is that she is a professional piano player, she plays in an orchestra ;o; The cords are ruined and it is uncertain if she'll ever recover completely. This is a disaster, for her and of course for the dog. He now is declared dangerous and we are not allowed to find a new family for him. He has to do a test first-which right now he'd drastically fail. Another dog we have to keep longer than expected... The lucky winner to train him is: me. I am the only one who is allowed to train dangerous dogs. I have an official piece of paper giving me this permission. Originally we were 6 people but from those 6 I am the only one left ;o; This makes him dog number 5 I train without ever seeing a cent for it, risking my health. In the last couple of month I actually tried to train/teach our other volunteers to handle those kind of dogs but-holy cow either my expectations are way too high or they are totally incapable <_<" No feeling for the animal, for the emotions, body-language (come on, if the dog growls I stop whatever I am doing STRAIGHT AWAY?!) Gah so yes, I am a little bit angry, a little-huge-bit distressed and in somehow I think I need a tiny holiday <3 Which of course won't happen, haha, I am a dog-junkie :'D
I would think that having a disclaimer like, 'Dog may bite' or 'don't try and take food away' would help with adopting 'dangerous' animals. If someone likes the animal enough, they could just decide to adopt anyway, and just be careful around them, or somesuch.
I just wish you wouldn't get bitten so much. It's nice to know you're giving them a second chance.
I hope the staff are prepared to protect you in case an attack ever gets out of hand. Most people on this planet probably wouldn't - that's what I've learned, anyway.
The 9 years I've been volunteering in this shelter I got bitten about-5 times? It is only now that I train Max that my body is such a mess xD He has never learnt to deal with a normal life which is so sad. Therefore he gets stressed and excited very, very quickly. A person walking up to me for example is too much for him, he will got banana. Long, long way to go but we are making tiny, tiny efforts :'D
Weeeeell, they would I believe-no in fact I know they would if they were around. Thankfully I know how to act and react if an angry dog is hanging somewhere on me which is-well, a little pro^^
Oh gosh, what happened to you if I may ask?