Dog Health Questions: DS: Does your personality change when you're not with your dog?

Does being with your dog make you more outgoing and friendly? How are you when you aren't with your dog?

Normally my personality tweaks ever so slightly depending on who I'm around. But if I'm not with Rock, I'm pretty twitchy and anxious and a bit more shut-in. Especially when I'm with a new crowd and I know no one... . I can warm up to people pretty easily, but I'm 100% confident Onyx when I'm with Rock or people I know well. Otherwise, I'm terribly shy. It's not like I can help it, I just feel more comfortable and happy with Rock.

What about you? Has your dog helped you become more confident and outgoing? How? Do you think it's because of your dog's personality that helps you to be more comfortable around people?

(I've been thinking about studying psychology and that sort of stuff after dog training + media school, if you can't tell)

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my 4 rescued pitties actually rescued me. they give me something to look forward to every day of my life. when I an with them I radiate love. they fill me up with so much love that my heart feels like it will burst! when I am away from my dogs I miss them and think about them a lot. when I am at work I have to deal with a lot of idiots that stress me out and iritate me. that's including co-workers! my dogs bring me comfort and the ability to chill and relax and be calm and serene. my dogs are my life!

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• Damned straight my personality changes. I become even more ornery than I am here. I have to keep my dog beside me when I come to this section or I'd reach through the screen and throttle some of these people. And that's quite the effort tonight because the dog has a rotten case of the room clearing phartes. The air in here is bluer than my monitor screen.
  Probably explains why I'm so mellow tonight. I'm high on dog phartes.


• I'm not lying I hit myself when my dog gets hurt. A coyote looked at my dog and I shot it in the eye with my bb gun. My dog is my kid. If you mess with my dog you get consequences.


• being around your dog kicks in you maternal instinct which makes you more motherly and friendly. It happens to everyone, even if its not your dog.


• yes, I am. I also feel much safer when i am with my dogs. Bella my smallest is 85 lbs and Meridell and Sampson both weigh 135 lbs and Rocko is in between at 110


• I probably just laugh a lot more when my dogs are with me.