i mean i think most people view it as if their dog refused to listen as their own dogs did refuse to listen during the training process and think "wtf she just gave up"
she had taken him hunting though, which signified he had already undergone immense training
if you were to were buy a hunting dog breed and instead of training him yourself dropped him off at a kennel which specializes in those things, the program is typically 3 months long and cost thousands of dollars to be done
so this isn't your dog which you spend maybe 15-45 minutes a day for a few weeks training to sit and lay down and roll over as a puppy but rather a dog with a PhD education at a finishing school
this is a dog that had been trained for hundreds of hours and still wouldn't listen to basic commands
also i kind of left it without fully explaining but the reason for showing the wolf+huskie image was that to show that wolf sized breeds are extremely rare specifically because putting down troublesome dogs is the norm
not even accounting for modern breeds where we have a specific shape/size/color in mind but I'm talking cave man days
the larger and fiercer dogs were put down at a much higher clip
so much so that ancient domestic breeds which have since gone wild again never regained their old wolf size
the dingo's fossil remains go only as far back as 3,500 years, they can't be found before that time, it's because some humans who went to Australia brought their dogs with them, already by that time, we'd already shriveled it down significantly in size just through killing off the bigger and more dangerous ones
and they're still fierce enough to eat your baby
had she written that book 100 years ago nobody would have batted an eye, had she written that 1,000 years ago people would have criticized her for not putting it down sooner