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Corvus is a conundrum. Anyone else would strangle him. He is needy, hateful, smarter than any dog should ever be, meticulously clever about manipulating me/things to get whatever he wants, and extremely obsessive, possessive, and fickle. He is also the loudest, most vocal and obnoxious creature I've ever owned. He vocalizes EVERYTHING. Oh... did I mention he's hateful?
I don't trust him with 99.9% of the human population because he is not trustworthy with people. I also don't trust him with any animals outside of his immediate pet family because he is not trustworthy with them either. In spite of all this, he is an amazing dog. His only real offense that I felt like kicking him out over was when he developed a habit of charging right through glass to go after things outside. The first time was a chocolate lab in my back yard. He just jumped right through the window. Scared the crap out of me. Then, about a month later, he charged right through another window to go after a stranger in my yard. Shortly after that, he busted the storm door down to get to me when he could no longer see me when I was working in the yard. We did remedy this situation before he could seriously injure himself or someone..but it was a rough month.
Then there is Ditto. She doesn't really have any major offenses...just a pile of smaller ones that make me mad for about .5 seconds and then I laugh about it later. Like the night she stole a full can of shaving cream out of the shower and crushed the can. That was messy. Or the time(s) she's stolen my goat's milk soap and eaten them. If we forget to hide the bars after we use them, she gets them every time. Turd. Or the toilet paper rolls she steals and flattens into shredded, mushy blobs and then hides them under the blankets on the bed. It's just safer to leave the bathroom door closed, but someone forgets at least once a week, and she's always there to remind us of WHY we have that rule in place.
All in all though, my dogs are typically good dogs. They're just...quirky. Yea, that's it!
I don't trust him with 99.9% of the human population because he is not trustworthy with people. I also don't trust him with any animals outside of his immediate pet family because he is not trustworthy with them either. In spite of all this, he is an amazing dog. His only real offense that I felt like kicking him out over was when he developed a habit of charging right through glass to go after things outside. The first time was a chocolate lab in my back yard. He just jumped right through the window. Scared the crap out of me. Then, about a month later, he charged right through another window to go after a stranger in my yard. Shortly after that, he busted the storm door down to get to me when he could no longer see me when I was working in the yard. We did remedy this situation before he could seriously injure himself or someone..but it was a rough month.
Then there is Ditto. She doesn't really have any major offenses...just a pile of smaller ones that make me mad for about .5 seconds and then I laugh about it later. Like the night she stole a full can of shaving cream out of the shower and crushed the can. That was messy. Or the time(s) she's stolen my goat's milk soap and eaten them. If we forget to hide the bars after we use them, she gets them every time. Turd. Or the toilet paper rolls she steals and flattens into shredded, mushy blobs and then hides them under the blankets on the bed. It's just safer to leave the bathroom door closed, but someone forgets at least once a week, and she's always there to remind us of WHY we have that rule in place.
All in all though, my dogs are typically good dogs. They're just...quirky. Yea, that's it!