I have to come back to the training, because that's exactly my point. You don't have to test trustworthiness when your dog is properly trained. Sorry if this sounds harsh, but I've seen too many owners who don't understand that concept. Give your dog the right set of rules and he will love your little pack. It does not mean to teach them submissiveness!
Btw, how old is he?
I once paid thousands of euros for a vet clinic with the most sophisticated equipment...to get the wrong diagnosis. Animals are so hard to read and sometimes they just...have a bad day.
Marketing these days: make the most horrible ad for cheap money, let every single outlet report about it.
That is peak journalism!
So, the whole autism-tylenol-theater was to beat down the price of the company? Because that's what it smells like.
From the grainy pic I can only guess some sort of healthy terrier-mix. If there's some dachshund in him you can tell by the stubornness ;) We had two of those, with a gay poodle as companion. That was a funny pack.
That is a nice NAS, when I got my Terramaster F4-420 I immediately upgraded RAM, put a SSD in the hidden 5th slot and installed TrueNAS. Almost overkill since I only need it for some NFS shares now, but in the beginning I was experimenting with iSCSI partitions and that was real fun. Also the firmware back then allowed for full virtualization, so I was running a homelab for testing and education.
Maybe it's not the chain but just a bad tummy. Brownie will be fine, looks like he's in the bestest hands.
Are you doing some training? Because it sounds like there might be more problems underneath which can be fixed with a good trainer, for a better quality of life for Brownie. Try to find a respected (!) trainer, don't watch tiktok or youtube. They can work wonders and you two will have a better understanding of each other and your relation.
But first, lose the chain. You have to respect this for now. He just needs to feel safe with you, maybe you can redirect his attention later with some play or a walk. If you really want to keep the chain you have to do training, but without knowing the dogs character I can only speculate how long this will take.
From a distance it looks like the American people don't realize what's happening and accept it because "it will be over in 4 years". Keeping them frightened of losing their breadcrumbs also works very well.
And both parties are scared. That is even more revealing.
In early October, several Trump administration officials had a friendly pool going of how long the shutdown would last.
They are betting on the misery of their own voters. And 50% of your voters still think all of this is super ok? Can someone ELI5 how that is possible without a mob forming because I really can't follow anymore.
Wasn't that already news back in 2020 or something? With soldiers in Irak and Afghanistan giving away details? Why are we warming this up, it is known since data brokers exist.