Osiriz's photos show what he was and I beleive will become again. I know he has been
hunkered down in a small concrete space with no exit for 6 months. I
think short leash walks in his case would hasten
bonding and trust too just because he loved his first walk
out once we got past the lunges and heading back into the kennel
and the cookies and good boy because he has been taught to experience
people as posts or there to hurt them ( all movement at all from the
kennel is with control stick and dragged when with only a little
patience cookies would have done.)
He has a hard time
leaving an enclosed kennel space because a kennel
space is confinement but safety. It is all he has come to know. Sort
of like the persons snatched off the streets and held captive in
basements with no exit forever. Freedom is an uncertain experience
Once he was very bonded and with human beings 24/7 literally. He
slept and was with his homeless person all of the time. Then he
was put in a dungeon for 6 months. We don't often get to
see this because MCAS has deliberately shut off most areas including
Intake which once was open.
During
Osiriz's lengthy complete solitary confinement he was
not even permitted any treat buckets and staff was
instructed ( as they are for all dogs on security and intake) to
not talk to him ( or the rest in similar circumstances) or
acknowledge him at all ( that was a confirmed remark
spontaneously offered by the staff person helping us take him
out: she said it with sadness then asked how Harley was doing noting
she wished the rule were not that they couldn't speak to or engage
the animals in any way at all).
A
prohibition that includes speaking to them, looking at them in
any way makes them invisible. Now I understand the meaning of
Rowton's remark about Harley that even when they fed him
he didn't bond, wasn't friendly to the server. For months
they wrote nothing else at all about him except on the day
he destroyed his only toy: a cloth monkey.
They had nothing to
say because they didn't even acknowledge him. But Harley isn't
unable to bond if you just engage him. He was a street person's dog
too. He bonds so well it took time and medication to get him past
severe separation anxiety once out.
However when you feed a
dog without looking at, smiling, giving eye contact or any
acknowledgment at all you are just being a post, not a human.
The dog is
reacting
to your training. You are teaching him to ignore you. It isn't his
failure
to bond. He tries. After months he gives up. It is the ongoing
effect of a highly disturbed program that intentionally
extinguishes
socialization. They create the behaviors they then use to
stigmatize.
That
extreme isolation and social deprivation are acts of acute
govement cruelty. Even short term you see report after report
in which dogs being tested are reported as
aggressive/fearful/unadoptable.
All the behaviors reported are stress
behaviors, not temperament; they are just scared. We should not
tolerate this. I don't know how to make it stop but I will not
shut up until it does. Oswald is a very disturbed man and he
has created a looney bin. Because of that Osiriz and others
have suffered and do every day. It goes back to a core failure
in Multnomah County govement.
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