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▲ 11 r/AmITheAngel

Am I the angel for trying to spread the word that entitled dog ownership kills?

The teeniest, tiniest dog hidden in my friend's taxi for just a few minutes put him in the hospital for allergies, despite the fact that he is able to encounter similar levels of pet dander with no issue when the dog isn't present.

Now, half of facebook thinks a dOg'S fEeLiNgS are more important than my friend's life.

*For clarity, I am against bringing your dog everywhere *including non-dog spaces, but I call bullshit here.

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u/AmericanHistoryXX — 6 days ago
▲ 3 r/PocketFMReddit

What was this show?

I'm looking for some help identifying a series that was advertised to me on Facebook a few weeks ago. It was one of those full episode ads.

It features an overweight female protagonist with blonde or light brown hair. Her mom had died, and she is abused by her dad and step-family, forced to live in the outhouse, beaten and verbally abused. She is engaged to someone she loves, but right before the wedding, her fiance throws her necklace in the lake and tells her to go after it. She almost dies, but while under water, she meets her dead mother. When she heals, she starts developing powers. One of the first uses of her powers is to save a kid. Then an aristocratic man falls in love with her and starts to help her get her inheritance back from her family.

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u/AmericanHistoryXX — 13 days ago
▲ 226 r/OldEnglishSheepdog

He's a resource guarder.

He has been practically perfect in every way, a dream dog really. Perfect on a leash, crate trained, good with other dogs, calm, deferential, obedient, easy to groom, good in the car, and non-reactive. I had begun to wonder if anything really had happened in his former home (though of course, I knew it did).

Well then it happened. He was given a chew treat (not by me), and he was definitely willing to fight over it. I knew how to avoid provoking an incident (his littermate who I kept has those tendencies, but has gotten over them for the most part), but the posture was there and it took several treats to bribe him to give it up. And even then, after the bribery and an outside play session to lessen the tension, he went back and started to look for it or any scraps that might be left over.

The good thing is that he can be very content in a life without the things he'd resource guard. I know his former home left his toys out and gave him quite a few chew treats (they even sent him to me with some), but he hasn't acted upset about not having them here. He is more than content with walks, companionship and playtime, and doesn't quite value the things he'd get in trouble over (yes, he enjoyed the chew, but he's been happy the entire time he was here). He has no great desire to be on furniture, just wants to be near you and interact with you. He hasn't resource guarded the furniture, but I don't let fosters on the furniture.

Hopefully he can find the right home to deal with this. He's a stellar dog in all other respects. Speaking from experience, resource guarding doesn't have to be that hard to manage with some structure (that becomes fairly routine once you get used to it), but he's definitely not a dog with whom you have much leeway.

u/AmericanHistoryXX — 24 days ago