A week or two ago, there was a really nice-looking cocker spaniel at the pound. The dog warden said the owner signed him over because she "didn’t like how he was acting" around kids. She said he hadn’t bitten anyone. He seemed nice enough to me, wagged his tail when I talked to him, let me rub his back and check his teeth with no problem. I brought him back here before he went to rescue. He’s great with my 9 year old, although that doesn’t really count as much of a "kid evaluation" because all dogs love her. She has him on her bed while we get a picture and she says, "hey, there’s some kind of metal thing stuck to his leg." I look, and sure enough, someone had wrapped a metal headband complete with wire prongs so tightly in his fur that he yelped and tried to get away when I barely touched it.
Can you freaking believe it? Some kid was probably playing "dress-up" with the dog, and once it got completely tangled, was trying to yank it out. The dog does what any of US would do too, and tries to get away or her to stop. Next thing you know, he’s tossed in the car, and dropped off at the pound, without his owner making the least amount of effort to find out WHY he was suddenly acting out.Oh yeah and imagine the outcome if he had defended himself by biting. Then he would have been put down as aggressive and no one would have ever bothered to find out why.
As it ended up, Rory was happily adopted to a family with a whole bunch of kids.
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