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*insert the crying emoji* I love/hate stories about rescue dogs! You know, how wonderful it is when they learn new things, but how awful it is that they didn’t know them before or knew other terrible things. You know? Not my most articulate saying. Anyway. That’s so sweet.
The farm dog, Dini, is a rescue, and I actually was so relieved to read recently that a lot of times when rescue dogs are disproportionately terrified of men, it’s not necessarily that they were beaten by a man, but that they were poorly-socialized in general, and the larger and deeper-voiced a human is, the more terrifying he is to a dog unaccustomed to close contact with humans. Women are less threatening inherently. Because poor Dini was so terrified of men, and of enclosed spaces, and it seemed like something horrible must have happened to her– but what is probably the less-horrible truth is that she just never had much close contact with humans, was probably kept outside, and then after rescue was stuck in a small room for far too long.
After five years, though, she’s friendly, even to strange men, and comes into the house, and behaves herself, and is very loving, so. It’s quite a startling change from when I first met her and you couldn’t look straight at her. (Dini is short for Houdini, because you also couldn’t keep her in any kind of enclosure.)
(She’s a Lab mix and is very stinky most of the time, but my god, she’s so athletic, she’s really beautiful at a full run.)
*insert the crying emoji* I love/hate stories about rescue dogs! You know, how wonderful it is when they learn new things, but how awful it is that they didn’t know them before or knew other terrible things. You know? Not my most articulate saying. Anyway. That’s so sweet.
The farm dog, Dini, is a rescue, and I actually was so relieved to read recently that a lot of times when rescue dogs are disproportionately terrified of men, it’s not necessarily that they were beaten by a man, but that they were poorly-socialized in general, and the larger and deeper-voiced a human is, the more terrifying he is to a dog unaccustomed to close contact with humans. Women are less threatening inherently. Because poor Dini was so terrified of men, and of enclosed spaces, and it seemed like something horrible must have happened to her– but what is probably the less-horrible truth is that she just never had much close contact with humans, was probably kept outside, and then after rescue was stuck in a small room for far too long.
After five years, though, she’s friendly, even to strange men, and comes into the house, and behaves herself, and is very loving, so. It’s quite a startling change from when I first met her and you couldn’t look straight at her. (Dini is short for Houdini, because you also couldn’t keep her in any kind of enclosure.)
(She’s a Lab mix and is very stinky most of the time, but my god, she’s so athletic, she’s really beautiful at a full run.)
