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It's not a problem. Things happen. I will post pictures of the pup. We had her for just over a week and she was adopted. Things are hectic at work right now, of course. We both took off this week to have a break. The manager started this past Monday. When I get back, we'll be down two more...

That's alright. I have been pretty busy anyway. Last week was my final week of the term and I had a big project. Plus, we had a foster pup. The shelter brought in two four-month-old pups without having fosters for them. I ended up taking one. They were shepherd mixes, so my weakness of course...

It's been a lot. We can't keep people at work. We hired someone and she left in, I think, a week. People take vacations and it means everyone has to pick up a day. The event was really cool! You paid to get tickets that you could use to participate in various sports. Not anything competitive...

Sorry for no replies. I've been working extra days at work and trying really hard to work on Osiris's reactivity because there's an event I want to take him to this Sunday. Everything is going alright. Osiris gets a little itchy sometimes. It seems like usually when he's about due for his next...

It is. And I'm afraid it's only going to get worse. Surrender and return rates have gone up and adoption rates have gone down, not just for us but for all rescues. Yes! Much better. Haven't seen hardly any itching lately. Well, we don't have company over much, so it took a long time to get a...

It is. But what are we to do? Our trainer doesn't actually work at the shelter. She comes twice a week to work with volunteers and adopters. She can give us ideas of what to do, but we don't have time to do much. We either need someone to do this stuff every day and help these dogs or we need to...

It's a tough situation with no good answer. It has to be about the dog's mental health and people physical safety though. The best answer depends on the dog and the people involved. That dog wasn't in a good mental state. And, frankly, this shelter isn't equipped to handle dogs like that. They...

But I don't think that's quite right. I understand wanting to save a dog from death, but this was a very broken dog who would never be able to function normally in society. Not without serious management and he'd always be a risk. And if he did attack someone? That could come back to the...

I know people want to think the best and try to save every dog, but this guy had over a year to adopt this dog. He chose not to. Even when the dog was getting worse, he chose not to adopt him. So what changed? Just that the dog seriously attacked someone? Should we really be adopting out a dog...

They tried for far too long for this dog. Or started trying too late, really. There for over 16 months, had issues from the start, but didn't start any sort of training until the last six months. He had two different people taking him out of the shelter, but they ended up doing it so randomly...

Everything about that dog was sad. He'd had a terrible life, really. It's really disappointing how many people are willing to turn on a shelter with a 97% save rate because the shelter opts to euthanize a dog who has had a miserable life and severely bit someone he knew multiple times. We've...

Thanks for the tips. I have been working on doing more puzzle types of things with them.

Sores are finally gone. They were bad, I will admit. I was taking pain pills for the sores more so than for my surgery. They didn't want to go away either. Things have settled down a bit at work. The girl who was attacked is back to work. We do have someone else leaving, but not someone who...

I am doing okay except I developed several canker sores in my mouth which are currently giving me more trouble than my missing wisdom teeth. They hurt quite badly. I do have pain meds prescribed to me, but they knock me out pretty quickly and make me dizzy, so I don't like taking them. I can't...