03-18-2018, 04:14 AM
We bought a Dobie puppy when I was maybe 10 yo (Gawd never go through the ear clip thing!)
All other dogs have been dark-of-night rescues, re-homes, retired breeders, take in from overwhelmed owners, "outlaws" (the best dog I have ever owned, BTW), survivors of dead owners. As have been pigs, goats from kids going off to college, like that. And a FFA sheep that had to be sold to complete the program, was supposed to go to slaughter, but I told the kid I would buy her if the bidding didn't get crazy, and no one would know.
Only one that I had to give up on, had been so badly traumatized by being savaged by her own daughter that she was beyond my capacity to help.
I would say complete success. The hopeless one was hopeless if I tried or not; the lifetime of others have been completely joyful.
I'm sorry Ri an went away; some things are beyond our power to fix. But such are animals. The only way to never have something die is to never have anything alive. Which is no way to live.
