Bleh. Know, know so very very much you don't really have grounds to blame a dog for having shit owners. But it's getting increasingly difficult to remember that when dealing with this neurotic little bastard of a dog. I'd be tempted to strangle said owners, but most of the fault lies with its previous one and I think they're actually dead.
Am getting more tempted to start pushing for getting the thing through actual professional obedience training, though. Dog needs better behavior to keep from killing itself (or injuring its current owners -- it's a fairly small dog, but part of its lack of training involves being very insistent on pulling a leash if it's being walked, and it's enough to provide that extra little bit that can take an older person from standing to falling), and I'm becoming increasingly incapable of managing the will or the base physical effort to work it towards that. Also the only one involved with the capability to even try. Rest of the folks dealing with the damn thing are too old to do anything but make what efforts I'm managing less effective. Which means both not getting help and being actively (albeit unintentionally) undermined.
Getting to be a bit depressing. Other than the psych disorders and the complete lack of training, it doesn't really seem to be that bad of an animal as such things go, but those are enough this is starting to get rather intensely draining and the consequences of failure are good bit unpleasant. If absolutely nothing else, I'm pretty sure burying a dog right now would actually put me in need of a hospital. Limb or two's been giving me some trouble and there's even odds the effort would take it from "some trouble" to "get treatment or suffer permanent injury"