The nature of the beast
I was speaking to a colleague today and describing Wolfie and he said that he grew up with German Shepherds and considers them the best of breed. He asked casually if Wolfie was a female and I said yes, and he said you know their tendencies, and I said no, what? He said a female German Shepherd will defend her female mistress to the death.
It struck me because we sense that Wolfie has been abused and definitely by the hands of a man. She shirks and flinches around men but is loving and trusting around women. The other day a friend was by and I told him I think Wolfie was abused, because she bared her teeth at him even though he is almost a dog whisperer. I said I think a man abused her and his response out of nowhere was that maybe it was different, maybe she had seen a man abusing a woman and was responding to that and was protecting us.
We don’t know Wolfie’s past life. We only know the stories we surmise, invent, or otherwise don’t know. But I do know that I felt safer leaving T with Wolfie knowing that a rapist was in our neighborhood, although I feel better now that he has been caught, I felt like push comes to pull, Wolfie would be there, no questions asked.