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brought home most often due to behavioral problems and lack of training. The dogs shown below needed training, but instead their owners left them at shelters. (Note with the help of volunteers, the dogs shown below learned some manners and were adopted.) |
The Fate of Untrained Dogs
because no one bothered to train them or socialize them. Such dogs are dead dogs walking. Dogs like Elvis, Missy, Pippin, (below) Mocha, and Buddy died because they never were taught how to live in our world. Humans are the ones who failed these dogs. The failure was not always intentional on the people's part. To these dogs, it didn't matter if he/she was failed intentionally, through, ignorance, or indifference. These dogs died and their short lives were unhappy ones. |
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| Pippin was a fear aggressive dog turned into a shelter by his owner who beat him. Pippin was not a safe dog to adopt out. He was killed at the age of 2 yrs. |
| Missy was an unsocialized dog whose elderly owner was removed from the home and unable to care for her. The woman's family did not want Missy and She was adopted by a wonderful woman. Sadly, Missy was a fear aggressive dog who was a real bite threat to all who came into the home. Missy was in a constant state of stress. She would shake for hours after the doorbell rang. She died in the arms of a woman who had only known her a short time. |
| Elvis was a dog rescued from a locked shed in the dead of winter. He was all skin and bones. His life was the shed and a bowl of frozen rice. Sadly his adoptions did not work out and he was put down about a year after he was rescued. |
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