What's something you learned from your dog?😍
A better appreciation for my super sense of smell, despite certain smells being unpleasant. Learning to identify plants by smell is quite useful.🐕🦺👍
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Starcrossed · 41-45, F
A couple years ago we had a foster dog for 4 months. He was a really sweet dog but a few times a month he and our resident dog just lost their minds in a growling snapping fur flying rumble, ending in someone bleeding [them or me, none severe thankfully].
I've been in a dog family since I was a newborn, had a handful of pups come and go in my life. These two dogs taught me so much more. I learned about training reactive dogs, and learned [and am still learning] about healing dogs with trauma. I learned the pain and joy of your foster moving to their forever home. I learned the worry about finding a difficult dog the right home and having to turn down good people whom you knew would be a bad fit. I learned patience and forgiveness for an aggressive freakout they had no control over. How to keep a cool head and safely stop an aggressive dog fight when alone. How to be an emotional support human for what was supposed to be your ESA. How much a dog can still love despite how much it was abusedkor neglected early on.
I've been in a dog family since I was a newborn, had a handful of pups come and go in my life. These two dogs taught me so much more. I learned about training reactive dogs, and learned [and am still learning] about healing dogs with trauma. I learned the pain and joy of your foster moving to their forever home. I learned the worry about finding a difficult dog the right home and having to turn down good people whom you knew would be a bad fit. I learned patience and forgiveness for an aggressive freakout they had no control over. How to keep a cool head and safely stop an aggressive dog fight when alone. How to be an emotional support human for what was supposed to be your ESA. How much a dog can still love despite how much it was abusedkor neglected early on.
perceptivei · 36-40, F
@Starcrossed How do you stop a dog fight when you're alone?
stratosranger · M
UnderLockDown · M
@stratosranger Well, now we have a story that needs telling.😊
stratosranger · M
My Mom told me this one years ago.
She woke up one night because the dog was not barking, it was baying. Giving off long howls. She put on her robe, went downstairs, rounded the corner and first saw the dog in the corner. It was still giving off long loud howls. It’s legs were backing and back, claws clattering and scraping on the hardwood floor. She said if the dog could have gone through the wall it would of in it’s attempts to go backwards. She called to it and it kept doing the same thing, not even looking at her.
Something else caught her eye to her left and then she noticed….it. A vaporous form was standing in front of the fireplace. She said all she could see was a cowled head, shoulders and arms that faded into nothing at the torso. She could not see a face. She looked further left to see what it was staring at and she saw my Dad there seated on the sofa, staring right back at it. She said he didn’t look pale, no it was much worse, he looked gray, like a dead person.
She shouted out, “Patrick! What the hell is that thing!” And it, whatever it was, turned it’s head towards her then turned around and floated into the bricks above the fireplace and vanished.
My Dad seemed to snap out it, she said. He looked to her and said, “It’s nothing. You hear me? It’s nothing. Go back to bed.”
The dog then ran out of the corner and was whining to be let out the front door. She let the poor thing out. The only part about this story I can verify is I do remember the dog behaving strangely around that time. For several weeks it refused to come inside the house. I never knew any of this had occurred until years later when I recalled the dog’s odd behavior to her. That’s when she told me this story. @UnderLockDown
She woke up one night because the dog was not barking, it was baying. Giving off long howls. She put on her robe, went downstairs, rounded the corner and first saw the dog in the corner. It was still giving off long loud howls. It’s legs were backing and back, claws clattering and scraping on the hardwood floor. She said if the dog could have gone through the wall it would of in it’s attempts to go backwards. She called to it and it kept doing the same thing, not even looking at her.
Something else caught her eye to her left and then she noticed….it. A vaporous form was standing in front of the fireplace. She said all she could see was a cowled head, shoulders and arms that faded into nothing at the torso. She could not see a face. She looked further left to see what it was staring at and she saw my Dad there seated on the sofa, staring right back at it. She said he didn’t look pale, no it was much worse, he looked gray, like a dead person.
She shouted out, “Patrick! What the hell is that thing!” And it, whatever it was, turned it’s head towards her then turned around and floated into the bricks above the fireplace and vanished.
My Dad seemed to snap out it, she said. He looked to her and said, “It’s nothing. You hear me? It’s nothing. Go back to bed.”
The dog then ran out of the corner and was whining to be let out the front door. She let the poor thing out. The only part about this story I can verify is I do remember the dog behaving strangely around that time. For several weeks it refused to come inside the house. I never knew any of this had occurred until years later when I recalled the dog’s odd behavior to her. That’s when she told me this story. @UnderLockDown
BeJeweled · F
To listen to them and watch for signs. I learned that recently after a trip. He kept telling me he was sick but I stopped the car too late 😏😱😣
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