Is she going to be ok?
I’m going to start off by saying I sorry if this seems long and drawn out. Backstory….on 11/6/2025 I gracefully tripped getting out of the shower completely tearing my right rotator cuff. I am unable to work and go on short term disability. Fast forward about month I finally have an MRI and the doctor says “you will need surgery but you have to have PT first to get more function in your shoulder”. I had completely tore my supraspinatus. I do PT and work my butt off at home to get more function because I need to go back to work sooner rather than later. Surgery was 1/5/26. Surgery went well and wasn’t horrible but the pain during PT at 6 weeks postop was brutal. Fast forward to now…5/8/26 and it’s been 6 months that I have been off work and 7 months that we have had Raven. Three weeks before my fall my daughter who has 2 GSDs calls me and says “ mom this girl I went to nursing school with called me and said her brother needs to get rid of his GSD because he doesn’t have time for her since he went back to work. Apparently he had been off on FMLA for 12 weeks and crated her for 12 hours a day. Something happened (not sure what) but he started taking her to his moms. His mom finally told him she couldn’t handle her. Anyway, he said “I either find her a home or I am going to have to take her to the humane society”. Reluctantly I agreed and thought that she would be perfect for my husband since he is medically disabled and home all the time. When we got her she was a little over 6 months old. She is so sweet and was socialized to people, but unfortunately not to dogs. We start working with her and she is so smart. We learn she is AKC registered and is a working line from Germany which makes sense because her prey drive is crazy and she is so freaking smart. Here’s the problem…she bonded to me. She is my Velcro land shark. When I leave to go to the store my husband says she pouts and when I get home she is barking, whining and crying all at the same time then runs to me and almost knocks me over trying to love on me. Don’t get me wrong she loves my husband and she gets upset when he leaves and gets excited when he returns but it’s not the same. She follows me everywhere. No personal space because wherever I’m standing she’s at my feet touching me💜. I am worried. She was abandoned by her first owner and I go back to work this coming week. I work out of town and often am gone a week at a time. My schedule was like this when we first got her and she did fine but we hadn’t had her but 3-4 weeks before my fall. Is she going to be ok? Me and my husband are both worried about her. Has anybody dealt with this? Any suggestions for when I am gone or before I go. I don’t ever want her to think I am abandoning her. I don’t want her to get depressed or insecure. I live this girl with all my heart and I actually needed her more than she needed me I just didn’t know it. I have always owned Great Danes so this is my first GSD. I have always seen that they aren’t like any other breed of dog but I didn’t understand it until now. They are in a league of their own. I’ll never own another breed.