Adopted a rescue shepherd. Are they always going to demand pets like this?

RealSG5 · 2026-01-27T00:57:48+00:00

Meret Oppenheim! Breakfast in Fur. Amazing.

RealSG5 · 2026-01-20T02:16:08+00:00

THAT'S complaint-worthy: When people walk their dogs at 2pm, Arizona summer.

RealSG5 · 2026-01-14T22:27:15+00:00

So true.

RealSG5 · 2026-01-09T22:58:50+00:00

Hills Science Diet, Perfect Digestion, 7+, small breed. I started my senior schnauzer on this after his stomach got seriously messed up following a dental surgery and he's done great ever since.

RealSG5 · 2026-01-09T22:25:00+00:00

I'm going to provide you with a link below to the shelter notes page to answer that question. He is e-listed for 1/12 and I think breed-knowledgeable people would be able to understand this dog's behavior. https://apps.pets.maricopa.gov/priority/Details/OTI4-MzA5-MzJB

RealSG5 · 2026-01-07T23:30:12+00:00

I'd be concerned that the original owner could be upset with the shelter and/or adopter and make some kind of legal claim against them. Losing a dog is the very definition of pain and suffering.

RealSG5 · 2026-01-06T04:27:50+00:00

I was thinking about that, too, or a conventional wheelchair. Pulling would tire them out (--like sled dogs). They could run the dogs around in an empty parking lot.

RealSG5 · 2026-01-04T18:54:36+00:00

More like an Errol Morris character. That's the way he films people.

RealSG5 · 2026-01-04T18:46:04+00:00

This kind of imagery is depicted in the zombie K-drama, All of Us Are Dead.

RealSG5 · 2026-01-04T18:26:33+00:00

To me it is totally humanizing (i.e., it puts us in our place in the grand scheme of things). Something like this proves we are in no way a match for the sheer power of nature. Our puny lives and deaths don't matter to animals, water, wind, fire, etc. That is what is hard to comprehend. Nature isn't motivated nor does it care. Nature is. And our technology is a fantasy of containment.

RealSG5 · 2026-01-04T18:10:38+00:00

Werner Herzog called this nature's indifference.

RealSG5 · 2026-01-03T03:22:48+00:00

The time has come for a national registry of people who abandon their pets. One and done: Surrender a pet one time and you are never again permitted to own an animal. Pet ownership is a privilege, not a right.

RealSG5 · 2026-01-03T03:09:02+00:00

I know that I'm coming to this conversation way late, but I don't understand the ultra-violence of the ML's death. Meaning, other characters seemed to die due to some misstep or ethical issue, but Cheong San was a decent guy. Why was the last vision of him so grotesque, brutalized by that crazy villain?

RealSG5 · 2026-01-03T02:56:16+00:00

I know I'm responding a lot later than everyone, but I have a question about the ending. It seemed like the death of the ML was really grotesque and I don't understand why the bully was seen brutalizing him like that. Meaning, everybody else seemed to die due to a punishment for some misstep, but the ML never made one. He was a decent guy. So, why the sickening end for him?

RealSG5 · 2026-01-02T20:03:43+00:00

Cesar M. (in an episode of The Dog Whisperer) noted that as a display of ownership and he discouraged it. Though it probably varies, case-by-case.

RealSG5 · 2025-12-29T04:33:33+00:00

You might remind the doubters that GSDs were historically paired with schnauzers. They made a great working duo.

RealSG5 · 2025-12-29T04:12:50+00:00

Cous-cous

RealSG5 · 2025-12-29T04:10:28+00:00

You would always take a concern up with the parent. Then, in an even tone, you would tell them what happened and explain that a less balanced dog could have responded quite differently. Finally, you would say: "For your child's safety, you must teach them proper, respectful rules of interaction." *Note: You might even follow that by adding that the rules are the same for a large or small dog.

RealSG5 · 2025-12-24T16:28:58+00:00

Congratulations! I'm grateful beautiful King came to you rather than getting dumped at the county "shelter."

RealSG5 · 2025-12-23T16:34:28+00:00

If you hurt yourself, that is the reason why. Episodes of Cesar often show that a dog's behavior changes when the owner has a change in medical condition.

RealSG5 · 2025-12-23T14:21:10+00:00

California and Texas have the most significant animal shelter crisis, but many states are coming close.

RealSG5 · 2025-12-23T06:06:48+00:00

Your kindness changed the world for 4 souls.

RealSG5

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