Heartwarming transformation of tense shelter dog who struggled to settle into furever home finally complete after months of anxious behaviors, dog dad says: ‘It's weird, like a month ago he just kinda changed. He is so cuddly now.’

You might be used to stories of doggos who were returned to shelters over poor behavior, but this story tells the tale of what happens when you lean in and invest in your pupper instead of throwing them away.

As the old advert goes, a dog is not just for Christmas, it is not just for when things are going well, and it is not just for the time that they are young. When you take responsibility for the life and soul of a doggo you are tasked with their life. If they are not doing well it is your fault, or at the very least your responsibility to handle.

And while many pawrents think that they are not indebted to their puppers and can freely send them away when they become an inconvenience, this pupper pawrent did not see things that way. They understood the responsibility they had taken upon themselves and sought to stick through the tough and the ruff times. Resulting in one heck of a happy ending for the doggo and the pawrent. Just as it should be.

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Oh sweet pupper, what a disorienting thing to have to go through. As a pupper in the system of foster and shelter care you already have so little agency and influence over your life. And then to have even that little bit of stability taken away all at once is painful to see. It is no wonder that he had to be put in his crate to calm down. But that is the nature of life and we all make mistakes. And as much as this pawrent might have made a mistake from the get go, that does not mean that they do not have the ability to make up for it. And make up for it they did.
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Well, we might have spoken too soon, sometimes these situations get worse before they get better. But the point is that they do get better and that you as the hooman do not give up on the pupper. Their improvement is your responsibility and so long as you invest in them your investment will come back to you four fold, one for each of their sweet paws. That being said, we cannot ignore how tough it is to hold on through this stage where things are truly at their worst. Any reasonable hooman would find themselves wanting to give up, and it would be hard to blame them. But a doggo, especially one that has been given up on many times before, deserves just that little bit more leniency when it comes to trying.
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