Unrelated to maf because everyone I talk to on EB is in this thread so I hope y'all see it even if you've been killed off this round of maf...
I'm gonna keep it brief so I don't cry again
We're re-homing Banjo. My best friend is taking him. She's more experienced with dogs that have behavior problems. To be frank, the shelter absolutely fucking failed him. And if we were to return him to a shelter, he'd be put down. So her taking him, is literally saving his life. And when we get his meds figured out, he's going to be amazing. And I took him off of a med that I shouldn't have even though the vet tech said it was ok to. But no one, not the shelter, not our vet, not the behaviorist, ever truly explained all of his meds to us. And if he hadn't been taken off of that med, he likely wouldn't have bit me and we'd be in a very different situation right now. It's been a whole series of unfortunate events. But my best friend has all of the info, the support of the behaviorist we hired, and experience. She and her partner were looking at adopting a difficult dog anyway so it's working out beautifully. And she's so excited to have a dog again (when she got divorced, she got the cats and the ex got the dog since the cats liked her better. but both of her cats passed this year due to medical issues). It's hard to not to feel like we failed but I know we didn't, the shelter did, the vet teams did.