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I've had my dogs with us for the last couple of weeks, they go back to my ex tomorrow. Really not looking forward to going back to being just a one-dog household. Three is probably the optimum number of dogs.
Anyway, met a guy in the woods yesterday with a massive, beautiful 18-mth old German shepherd he'd adopted the day before. She'd spent her first 18 months locked up outside a workshop, never had any contact with other dogs or worthwhile contact with people. He said she was distraught and frantic the first day, and freaked out by everything from being indoors to being in the car. Yesterday she was really scared of my chilled small dogs (our larger rescue is pretty shy so didn't go close) and cowering behind the guy's legs.
Met them again today, she's noticeably less scared of the other dogs, and was sniffing around interested in the tree stumps, bins and hedgerows. Still some way from being sociable, but the steps she's made in a couple of days are really encouraging and I'm sure she's going to be a lovely, happy dog, despite the treatment she's been subject to.
tl;dr - humans are shit, dogs are way too good for us