The tracker dog is now chained
Every day, on my way to work, I pass a house with a dog that looks like a German shepherd tied to a chain. She looks so unhappy, constantly running in a semicircle around her kennel. I have already trodden a whole trench along this endless path of my lack of freedom. Of course, I can't call her kind - she barks and growls at passers-by. But why on earth in such a position a dog should love people - he's on a chain!
I'm not a fan of dogs, I don't have and never had. Although they have always been in the family. After the last daddy's dog died under the wheels, we no longer keep these animals. You get too used to them.
Dog history
Yesterday I learned the story of this dog and even cried a little. How unpredictable human life is, and even more so, a dog's life - after all, it is completely dependent on human life.
It turns out that this dog is a service dog. She worked in the police and knew how to find weapons and ammunition. Her dog handler was the son of the owners of this house. The dog was very talented, intelligent to the point of impossibility. She constantly went on business trips, several times was in Chechnya. The guy looked after her, kept her at home, and not in the police department, constantly studied. She went hiking with him because he was an avid tourist. But there was no time for that, only on vacation.
And then, one day, he did not leave the cave, into which he went down, tying the dog at the entrance. She felt something, was torn from the leash, barked and howled, although usually she was rather patiently waiting for him. Friends immediately realized that something was wrong, they followed him and found him falling into an underground lake. Apparently he lost consciousness from the blow.
No one could have thought of such a terrible ending to an ordinary hike with a cheerful company. But the most frightening thing was the dog. At first she did not understand what had happened; she fiddled with the bag so that her friend would get out of it. But then, as if, I understood everything. After all, she had seen this more than once on business trips. For almost a month I did not eat, did not get up, did not communicate with anyone.
The guy's parents, who also loved her very much, decided to take her to them, because she did not work and was rejected. It seems that after that, after returning home from the canine center, the dog revived a little.
But then 2020 came with a terrible disease. The first to die was his mother, and six months later his father was gone. The family was mowed down. The house went to the brother of the elderly owner, a heavy drinking man. The dog who lived at home did not like the drunkard, just as the drunkard did not like the dog. Therefore, he soon found himself on a chain in a kennel on the street. And for almost half a year now, like a poor dog, which once saved a dozen lives, runs in a semicircle and does not trust anyone else.
A neighbor who told me this story says that the friends of the deceased dog handler wanted to take the dog, but they are also on a business trip now. Maybe, even though they, they will be able to provide a calm old age for a middle-aged, but completely heroic and intelligent dog.
This is such a life. Canine as well as human. Take care of yourself. After all, your loved ones and your animals depend on you.