they're good dogs Brent

Danielle side blog of doctorrichardstrand

[notanotherdogblog]

My hope for 2026 is to stop seeing the phrases ethical breeder / well bred / backyard breeder tbh

[thenoodlesadventures]

So this post is for anyone who needs to hear it.

Sometimes behavioral euthanasia is your only option.

Maybe someone else could help your dog. Maybe the right trainer could turn everything around. Maybe you haven't found the med that works for your dog yet. Maybe a different or more experienced owner wouldn't have made the same choices. Maybe if there weren't kids involved. Maybe if you weren't married. Maybe if you were married. Maybe if you live out in the country. Maybe if you were more diligent. Maybe if you didn't hover so much. Maybe. Maybe. Maybemaybemaybemaybe.

Maybe.

But none of that happened. And you're here now. And it was the right choice.

It was you. In the home you have. With whoever you had to help you. Or without any support. Handling your dog to the best of your ability at that moment in time.

That includes having limited mental and emotional bandwidth. There may have been more things you were physically capable of doing, but that doesn't mean you had the emotional and mental resources to do them. You would've done them if you could have. If you knew that you should.

But i know for sure that you didn't pay a few hundred dollars so that someone would kill your friend for no reason.

You did it because you were unsafe. Or because someone else was. Or because your dog was so overwhelmed by the world that they couldn't cope.

You certainly didn't walk into a vet appointment where every choice you'd ever made regarding the dog was questioned and you were told about all the local and breed specific rescues because you didn't try.

You made that appointment and walked in and suffered through the interrogation because you loved your dog enough to know that putting them through being rehomed or institutionalized in a shelter would lower their quality of life so significantly that it wouldn't be worth living for them. Or because you knew that no one would ever be safe living with them.

You did it because you cared. Because you loved them. Because you trusted that it was the best option. Because you tried.

And it still hurt. Even if you were angry and relieved. It still hurt.

So, let me encourage you to let go of "maybe". You loved them. You tried. You cared. It was and wasn't enough all at the same time. You made the right choice.

You're the only one who has to suffer with this decision because they're now at peace.

[odddogs]

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if there's anything i think that's pretty neat about social media it's always going to be how we get glimpses into lives of people all over the world.... and their pets

[notanotherdogblog]

Things are happening…👀

[notanotherdogblog]

Nettle says fences are evil and cicadas make perfect snacks for babies!!!

[scarlettaagni]

so i think the solution is to give dachshunds a third pair of legs right in the middle

[photozoi]

The reason we have been rather quiet ...

... is finally home!

Updates to follow as soon as we catch our breath!

the Bean's Sprout, Silken Windhound

[bullyshark]

Shark is and will always be a fashion icon

[notanotherdogblog]

Totally cool, logical, and normal progression amongst Balanced trainers on Dogbook where now if you are evaluating a bite risk dog you should be wearing a bite suit and letting the dog go for you unmuzzled. Because it’s fine to let dogs practice bad behaviors if you look cool! And hey you might find a new bitesport prospect this way!

[notanotherdogblog]

Meanwhile, Fitz was sure his goal was to eat the grass directly under the hide

[notanotherdogblog]

Had the AUDACITY to practice scentwork with Fitz. She’d already had her turn

[odddogs]

if you don't show up to adopt this thing in a very canon complaint suit of veskar armor they probably won't let you have it

[hadalstims]

So deeply moved by this puppy eating raspberries I had to make it a gif I felt compelled

[todaysbird]

enrichment doesn’t have to be difficult/expensive/time consuming for most animals. usually you just need to find the right size of cardboard box

[merlinimbus]

"Boy dogs are more affectionate than girl dogs-" "girl dogs love you, boy dogs are IN love with you-" Wrong. The only thing my boy dog does better than a girl dog is piss on himself

[blueboyluca]

I know it's just a microcosm of everything else but I hate that the dog world is sinking into conservativism as well. The gender essentialism but for dogs, the boydog thing, the rise of punishment over reinforcement, the shelter/rescue world mirroring the anti-abortion movement. Like it's all there and it's all so gross.

[mammalianmammals]

Side-striped Jackal (Lupulella adusta), family Canidae, Limpopo, South Africa

photographs by Thinus Van Staden