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Podcast: The Companions Collective
Episode: The Art of Becoming a Couch Potato
Description: There are dogs -- Belgian Malinois, German shepherds, pointers, retrievers -- who are shipped overseas to work in several different capacities.
Many of them are bite trained.
They live in kennels, their social interactions limited to what they gain from their handlers.
Then they lose their drive to work. They don’t get to punch the clock at 65 and say, "Yo, bro, I'm out. I'm going home to get my Social Security check."
They just have to lose their will to do the job.
Then they often get discarded. Mu...