First some background: When our dog was a puppy the neighbor boy threw stones at him and squirted him with waterguns (of course we put a stop to this as soon as we knew) so now he's scared of all men and especially 10-yr old boys. If he gets loose he will bite them (out of fear). He is the sweetest dog with the family. We took him to a proffesional trainer who said "this dog is NOT aggressive, just afraid". We've worked really hard on training him the past year but it hasn't helped and he will be put to sleep tomorrow. He's only 2 ½ yrs.
To get to my question: maybe it's better this way, that he's put to sleep calmly with people he loves while he's still healthy, instead of waiting till he's old and in pain? Do you think so? and if not, imagine that he has a disease now that we don't know about? So if we could keep him that would mean he would be in pain?
Please tell me what you think. Thanks.
2006-06-06
23:18:14
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