Originally Posted by
Swykk
The last 16 hours have been horrible. I'm very upset. I applied to adopt a husky (already have one, and I trained him well), and got him. I was so excited. They brought him over last night and he had lots of energy, of course. The site said he was 1 year old plus...the paperwork I got said 10 months. Red flag but not major so I thought I'll give this time. The lady who brought him left and he became very difficult to say the least. Had his own food so when he went to eat my Jack's food I told him no and he shows his teeth! I gently grab his collar to pull him away because I don't want him to get sick eating new food and he snarls and takes a bite at me, which I dodged. I've NEVER EVER had a dog do this. I consider myself a dog person. I've trained two and helped train a third. So I let him eat and then put him in the kennel I had so everyone can chill out. As soon as I let him out he started harassing Jack, who while he wasn't having it did not respond with the same aggression.
Eventually, I decide this dog doesn't fit. I'm devastated. Still am. I put him in the kennel later so we can go to bed and I got like zero sleep. Not because of him but because I am so disappointed that apparently I am not as good with dogs as I thought, I also don't have the time and energy I did a decade ago when I got Jack. This morning I called the place and took him back. They said I was his first home and they didn't know about his aggressiveness, but that they'd train it out. They were understanding mostly.
But I still feel like shit. I haven't slept. I'm at a tire place now because I was in Chicago Monday night and ran over a glass bottle parking and on Thursday, my check air light started going off. After this, I should probably just grocery shop since it's snowing like crazy here and it's only going to get worse.
I haven't been doing well mentally lately and these last hours have compounded my bad feelings greatly. I'm depressed, embarrassed, disappointed and beat. Just fucking defeated. Needed to vent. Sorry for the novel.