Tobias has reached a year away from Oscar (Summary of arrival Tobia three and a half months: Oscar had 1 year, 2 years Wallace, Leo 11 years, Mafalda 11 years and a half and Lucky after 12 years). Tobia is cryptorchid (ah, I forgot to tell you that Oscar is Monorchidism, as Wallace, the rest, but there are other problems in Wallace much more serious ...).
Tobias was born in a litter of black and tan. This should not happen but most do not have to say! Tobias was a candidate to stay "on the rump" due to the fact that it was unsaleable. We we met during a lunch organized by Maurizio Bruno and the 8 December 2006. In that time we also brought Wallace and Oscar from them, to let them see there were other friends, including a lady who had got a little sister of Tobias, black and tan. Gliel'hanno trimmed as a "right to assemble, since his dog (Ulex) was the father of the puppies. And Tobias was in the herd. Dirty, smelly. Treated completely different from what I saw Wallace treat, at the time. Tobias approached me, he wanted to contact but I was a little '"sucks", he smelled like a goat, poor. I saw that he played very well with Wallace and Oscar, but not approaching humans, he was afraid. When you put between my legs, I considered a gesture of confidence placed in me but I had a broken heart, to see that look scared. Maurice said that he would be given, and asked the whole group of friends if we knew someone who was able to take it. One of them made a phone call to an acquaintance, who wanted a dog but this guy had just got a German shepherd. Nothing. That dog had to be there.
Come back in the car I said to Hector: "Come on, Let's take us .... " He told me I was crazy, 6 dogs that are pure madness, I can not save all the dogs in need of this world .... and a number of things extremely rational. How to blame him. But I could not shake the sad look and the confidence that he had placed sitting between my legs. In the evening I called Bruno, saying that the next day I was going to take with Lori Tobias (who at that time called Carletto).
When I got to put the dog in the arms of Lorraine and gave me a backpack, complete with bowl, leash, a liter of milk, a map of tablets of calcium, as it did for Wallace, Oscar and all dogs they sell. To which I said leave it be, that they were all things that I already had ... and she insisted that "you always want to do things right" ...
Oh well, I have not insisted and asked what the I had (for the backpack, I mean ...). She said: "It would be € 700, half price because it's rig, but since you're a friend do 500.
I was probably the jaw touching the knees. I took the checkbook, I removed the check from 500 € and the last thing I said was: "This is our ultimate economic transaction."
And we brought home Tobia. With the windows open because even though he apparently had been brushed him with a stench that it took me more than a week to eliminate it ....
Tobias is my shadow. I follow obsessively. If I go to the bathroom waiting for me outside. She loves us all but for me it feeds a veneration phobic. E 'can not scold him because when I happen to raise your voice with someone else he does mat, gets scared and become a basset hound. You should pay attention to the tone of voice with him. While eating higher amounts of food to others he is always thin, always alert, extremely nervous behavior. It scares the minimum noise fear and become aggressive, and tends to pinch run.
We immediately noticed that Tobias was very wary of humans, especially male ones. With dogs, even with those strangers, but could communicate properly. Then one day last winter, Ettore was fueling the fire and the poker in his hand. Tobias when she saw he had a bounce and ran away with his tail between his legs. He made an infinite tenderness. I've consulate but I pulled my due consideration.
Since then I have always tried to encourage it to positive contact with people, and educating my guests to come at home with the good sense to never look in the eyes Tobia, should not be considered nor greet him, until they approached him, to always put himself on the side, looking away ... well, cautions that none of my other dogs I have ever had to take .
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