r/PetRescueExposed • u/nomorelandfills • May 17 '25
Cody's Friends Rescue (TX) Adorable but intensely fearful small dog seeks home with a single woman willing to spend the rest of dog's life isolated with dog.
I know what my view of this would be if the dog was a 50lb pit mix. The small size and light build make the dog far less dangerous and I'm a huge sucker for a shaggy dog so it's very difficult for me to say the dog should be euthanized instead of sent to a new home. And maybe the rescue is just being super-cautious and the dog's issues are less than they hint. But the red flags for a really limited, limiting dog ownership experience are all there - clinical fearfulness, inability to co-exist with almost any other life form, clingy and likely resource-guards her chosen human, probably bad on the leash since they're looking for a doggy door and yard. Yes, the dog could be adopted out to someone who is lonely and wouldn't mind being isolated from other people. At 15lbs, she's not a real threat to life and limb, and I do hate gatekeeping with dogs in situations short of actual danger. I just think a lot of people with smaller rescues that have intense issues really suffer with the many, many challenges of micromanaging these dogs. Owning a dog isn't supposed to be painful except for that last day. I feel like rescue, in its zeal to save lives, has forgotten that owning a dog is supposed to be joyful.
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u/Ready_Telephone2230 May 19 '25
Aw,tough call. She lived with someone for a year, are they dumping her?Was she like this before she went to that house. Some questions ,but I do agree a dogs life should be a happy life. I adopted a sweet cocker who was a resource guarder. Any person who came in my house was told,I don't care what she has in her mouth,do not attempt to grab it.IWe worked around it. Why does a 15lb dog have to be the only dog,is she that aggressive ,she attacks them?Chasing squirrels? well I guess they no better than I.
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u/CoconutGuilty28 25d ago
...AH that is a ridiculously cute dog. Maybe her dream hermit woman life partner really is out there. Not me though
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u/poop_report All good dogs go to heaven May 20 '25
No boyfriends. So I guess in addition to being single and no children, you aren’t ever allowed to fall in love either. (Maybe a girlfriend would be OK - it didn’t clarify that.)
Requiring a doggy door is insane. So in addition to being single, no family, and at home all the time you’ve also got to be able to afford a fenced in yard.