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[scriptveterinarian]

I was wondering if you could help me writing a dog who's been through a very tramatic event. See the story goes that some guys are trying to beat it to death but a young man steps in and saves the dog. Even goes the extra mile to adopt it after it gets out of the clinic. And I'm wondering what kind of behavior (and bond with the young man) that dog would have?

Unfortunately the dog is not guaranteed to recognize the hero as the person who ‘saved’ it. Once a dog is at an extremely high level of fear, or panic, just about everything that happens will be perceived as ‘bad’. Consider the events from the dog’s point of view:

Extremely bad thing is happening (being beaten towards death)

It’s still scary being rescued from that situation, especially if there’s much yelling

Car ride to vet clinic, and car rides are scary at the best of times

Is then in the vet clinic in a state of anxiety, which is scary at the best of times, and still in pain if it was beaten badly enough.

So all of these events are potentially perceived as Very Bad and so is everything associated with them. Dogs also interpret some cause and effect differently than us, so if they are in pain when encountering something new the may ‘blame’ the new thing for being associated with the pain, including meeting new people.

What I’m trying to get at is that dog’s don’t understand complex motives of people all that well, and the beaten dog may well associate the hero with the abuse it went through. Just because he was there and part of the events.

It would be very unlikely for the dog to be happy to see the hero, it’s unlikely to understand exactly what’s happened. Every dog is different, but I would expect it to be neutral at best, and there hero would have a lot of work ahead of them to ‘win the dog over’ as it were.

The dog may also have persistent anxiety and exaggerated fear responses to anything remotely associated with the beating: location, color clothes, raised voices, certain movements, certain sounds or smells etc. It may also be not obvious what it concerning the dog.

But if the hero does manage to convince the dog that he is a safe person, then they are likely to become the sort of dog that only trusts one person, and may be very uncomfortable when outside of their comfort zone or when left alone.

Dogs vary in their personalities and you can have a broad variety of behavior, but the dog may not recognize its ‘rescuer’ as being a separate type of person to the abusers.

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[scripttraumasurvivors]

Hey, I'm currently working on and writing as a character who recently lost their left leg. I've done a lot of research on my own but I would like some more qualified help with how they would act with their partner in bed and throughout daily life, with the new trama being so visible. He lost his leg saving the life of a dog. Some guys were trying to beat to death. The dog survived and any help with how animals handle trama would be great too!!

So I will admit to not being… super familiar with that specific kind of trauma. I would send you over to a more disability-centric blog, but I’m not sure this is right for -spoonie either.

What I will say is something you may have already noted-

there is a usually a difference in between people who are born without a limb and those who lose one. There tends to be more humor? In those who were born without- or those who have gone through their healing process and accept what has happened. I don’t mean general humor, but specifically… limb humor? 

But what you have is someone who is fresh. 

Someone who is very possibly still in the ‘relearning to walk’ stages. Who might be in the space of trying to figure out whether to get a mobility aid or a prosthesis. 

I walk with cane sometimes( for non trauma related reasons). Not as often as I should, for the very reason I’m about to point out- which is that your character is very likely aware of looks. Hyperaware even.

He may be able to feel proud of himself because he did save the dog. Having an impact on what happened to you? Is huge in terms of how traumatized people end up. Feelings of helplessness are linked to severity of PTSD symptoms. You’ve given him something to cling to.

Something that when he is feeling down- he can look at that dog and know that… what he did? Made a difference.

Which isn’t to say that there might not be days that he wonders if the dog was worth his leg. Where he might feel ashamed of himself for having that kind of thought.

It might be a story worth talking about to him. Being able to talk about trauma? Even in snippy comments at people who are staring? Helps create a cohesive narrative in ourselves and that helps with PTSD. Being able to paint himself the hero? Who made a difference? Is going to do him some good.

Your character is likely also beginning to notice how many things are not meant for people with disabilities. I’m one of those people that can tell you which stairs meant the ADA with nothing more than my body walking up and down them. Sometimes on stairs that meet ADA requirements I stumble because I’m so used to overcompensating. He might choose to avoid these challenges when possible. He might power through them and hurt himself in the process. He might be savvy and start to take notes about what places he can navigate and which ones he can’t.

People who are forced into visibility often … swing to one extreme or the other. They either try to hide. He may get a prosthesis and wear normal pants and shoes and minimize his limp. He may choose -not- to tell the story of what happened, instead sinking into the background to try and avoid stares. Especially if he had negative associations with disability before. 

Or he might be very ‘in your face’ about it. He might get a bright green prosthesis or cane. Might alter his pants to be shorts on that side. Have a rehearsed story for anyone who dares to poke at the subject. This is often just as much a protective mechanism as disappearing into the background is. People who do this are saying ‘your whispers, your stares, they mean nothing.  You can’t point and mock something I draw attention to.’ 

He’s probably going to feel extremely vulnerable in bed either way, at least for the first bit or so. He might play it off with jokes. He might try and turn down sex as much as possible. He might want the lights off or covers on. He might think nothing of it at all until his lover trails their fingers along his side and he’s forced to think about the fact that oh- they’ll reach his leg, and then the… end… of his leg soon. This may be a total mood ruiner for him.

@scriptveterinarian might be able to help with animals and trauma?

Hopefully that helps a bit?

TS

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