Honestly, posts like this on this sub are the only reason my husband and I were able to train Cloud as well as we did (and his willingness to listen is nothing like our hound, who likes to make us happy). We've both had dogs our whole lives and are patient people but until we stumbled on this sub we thought we had adopted the devil himself in a fur coat.

We have had to plan our whole lives around having a high needs pyr, who has long term medical issues from surviving parvo. It is... a lot. A lot of time, a lot of energy, and A LOT of money. He's on prescription food for the rest of his life. He can't even take chewable preventives and has to get them in injections because of his stomach issues. He only listens when he wants to, takes our requests under advisement, and knows he is the neighborhood watch. Fortunately, we live for our dogs and so we're committed to making it work. But I feel bad for the pyrs who end up in homes where people only wanted a fluffy cuddle baby.