To: My husband got a new dog and I hate it. We only lost our dog a couple months ago and I wasn’t ready and this new dog
Me: Dogs are like us humans and we are all different and this dog won’t be like your last one at all.
If you look beyond how he is different and try to accept him and love him, no matter his problems now, he will slowly adjust to the life he has now and he will become more receptive of you and you will learn to love him with time.
My female companion wanted a dog and I left it to her to find one and she proposed we adopt a rescue Greyhound and I said what is a Greyhound and how do you adopt those – well, long story short, our first Greyhound was Humphrey, a Tan coloured one and he was terrified of everything and cowered in my bedroom for 3 months (going outside to s*** and piss), sleeping on my bed next to me and with love and affection, he eventually became the most intelligent and loving dog I have ever had – that was 3 years ago – then my female partner wanted another Greyhound to keep Humphrey happy and she got Titan, a black dog and titan was pretty aggressive when we first got him, but again, I domesticated him and now he is loving, loves me to pieces and sleep next to me on my bed, with his head parallel to mine watching me all night long, it seems and he is very affectionate and loves to be stroked, although he hated contact to begin with.
I trust him completely and I always have, but my female companion (who has her own bedroom) is scared of him and does not trust him at all, probably why he behaves differently with her.
Greyhounds are not listed as “dogs” but “cattle” and thus they can be killed off without any of the protections that dogs have and treated badly as well and they literally “run for their lives” – Humphrey won just under 250,000, his mother 500,000 his father 1 million yet there was no compassion or caring for his owner, who gave him up for adoption, so he could be replaced with another cash flow dog.
The point I guess I am trying to make is that if you accept this dog the same way as you would a new partner, he will fit in a lot quicker and it is not his fault that you hate him, you have not given him the opportunity to adjust to you and your expectations and he deserves that much at least.
