Some of the most brutally abused dogs have the capacity to love. But in order for a dog to love a human, that love has to be earned. It isn’t just offered by the dog as is.
You have to earn their trust to gain their love
And like everything worth having in life, that trust will take time and work. But it can be done.
You sometimes just go, good dog when they’ve done nothing. And I say good dog to dogs all the time. And people go, well, why did you do that?
They didn’t do anything. And I would always just say, because they’re alive and they’re good dogs. They just it’s like, I don’t know. It’s like a human being saying to a good friend, I love you or I’m really glad to be your friend.
Devloping your dog’s trust is vital for him to grow and develop his love of you, a bit like humans in many ways.