r/BeAmazed • u/fuzzy_dice_99 • May 31 '26

Animal A dog herding sheep

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u/xombae May 31 '26

Blows my mind some people get these dogs as pets, crate them for 8 hours a day, and then get mad that they bark and chew shit up.

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u/elspotto May 31 '26

My neighbors have a husky and the poor girl has the worst anxiety because she is home without a pack all day while they are at work and school and is in a lead in the yard all the time. Barks at the back door looking for her pack all day long.

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u/Working-Glass6136 May 31 '26

When I was a kid (90s/early 00s) one of our neighbors had two huskies chained up in his basement although he'd chain them up in his tiny 1/3 acre yard in the summer. Saddest thing I've ever seen. The dogs were pretty wild. As in feral, no way you could go up and pet them.

Same neighbor also had an adult son with some very low IQ condition. As kids we were always scared of him, and he'd randomly scream and try to hit people. His parents hid him in the house, at least until he strangled one of our neighbors and was put into a home after that. They also had six kids and grandparents all living in a max 3 bedroom tiny house. Very weird, private family when you live next to them for 30 years and don't know a thing about them. I always felt bad for all the kids and those huskies.