A lot of people get a puppy, and the puppy turns out to be too much for them. Sometimes in the working dog world, it is just a really really strong dog. Sometimes, the dog is hectic, sometimes the dog is very self limiting. No matter what, the dog is making them mental, and they are making the dog mental. The issue is that a breeder needs to get that dog back. Most issues are genetic, and the breeder knows good and damn well the dog unless carefully brought up is going to be extremely self limiting. Sometimes the puppy who was a normal eh puppy at 8 weeks found a whole bunch of reasons to become powerful. Sometimes, the breeder has no experience, and thinks that a dog that cannot stop moving has a lot of drive. So this random thought is to explain to the world that sometimes, you send the dog back to the breeder. Too many people won't do this for a myriad of reasons, all of them stupid. I can assure you after 50 years of being in dogs, to many dogs are in homes in bad situations simply because the owner refuses to send the dog back to the breeder. This was brought on by a memory of a really really nice German Shepherd who was way way too much dog for his owner. He was tearing up everything bossing her around, scaring her husband. She brought him to me for a board and train. The dog with the amount of work and mental stimulation having someone work with you brings, fell right in line. He was a lot of fun to train. At the end of it all, she came got the dog, was in a big hurry to get home, so she couldn't be bothered to stay for the 1st lesson, nor did she come for any lessons offered. Years later, on a weird coincidence, a friend of mine at the shelter told me she had a German Shepherd that was surrendered with all the paperwork, including the paperwork I send home with the dogs for the owners after a board and train. I went and picked up the dog. He was 12 I think. Still a good boy. Had a fantastic pedigree, but he was never bred. Complete and total waste of genetics. Take the dog back.
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