>>5442460>>5442474>>5442571Yeah, luckily the only thing my pooch has ever chewed up (besides his own dog toys) was his harness when I left it on the ground one time.
I never really thought about it like he was a slave and doesn't have free will. I think in a certain sense, it is that way. I mean, he still does the things he wants to do to a certain extent, but he's also very attached to me. I adopted him, and he was rescued from a shelter in Kentucky, then shipped all the way up to MN. After being probably beaten and abandoned, then in a high kill shelter, then caged and handed from person to person as he made his way to the northern US, he never really had a GOOD owner. After I adopted him though, he slowly opened up to me, and now he thinks I'm like a god or something, lol. The first person who didn't abandon him and give him away, the first person who stuck with him for a longer period of time than a couple weeks or months. So even though he may choose to follow me around the house a lot, and sit with me at my couch, computer, and sleep with me in my bed, I think that he finds comfort in that. I'm not forcing him to do those things. The only slave aspect is that he's not allowed to piss/shit in the house, and he can't destroy things that aren't dog toys, lol.
My girlfriend and I have thought about getting a second dog, or a cat, since we'd like for our little guy to be less lonely when we're gone for longer periods of time, but we may be leaning towards another small dog. Even though cats and dogs CAN bond very closely, and we used to live with my sister who owned a cat so we know he likes cats, I just can't get over the litter box thing..
Does anyone have a solution to the litter box issue? I can't stand how they always stink either like shit, or chemical sand, and they're messy as hell. Little grey sand kernels always scattered everywhere around the box because it sticks to the cat's paws.
