Alecta
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Sometimes, that is not enough.
I always take these dismissal stories with dose of salt, if only because they tend to be told by the resentfully dismissed. Those who do not resent their dismissal tend to say little about it. Sometimes, it is not enough that you want to serve and give your all, that you think you've put your heart and soul into service and devoted yourself to them and lived by their rules, if you have not done it to your Owner's needs. I knew a slave who "devoted" himself to his Domme... above and beyond what she wanted of him. He stalked her. Broke into her home to clean numerous times -- and yet, funny enough, this same slave was also in the infuriating bad habit of leaving a great mess of a kitchen behind after making meals for her lol -- He showed up everywhere following her like a lost sheepdog, called her up for every little decision he had to make, tried to do everything for her... bearing in mind that this was not what she wanted of him, and tried for 6 months to correct him, to no avail. We, her friends, intervened and made her kick him to the curb after he expressed an intention to quit his job to attend to her at all times. At some point, sometimes, you just have to kick them to the curb and lock the door behind them. The way he tells it, however, is exactly what you wrote... devoted everything to her and got kicked out after being told the relationship is not good for either of them.
I recently dismissed a sub who felt he devoted his all and everything to serving me. I didn't tell him the relationship was not mutually beneficial, I told him exactly why I was letting him go, that what he thought was his best was not good enough. I tried for 3 months to school him up to par on the basics (standard of cleanliness, The Rules, appropriate behaviour) and left it when he didn't show any improvement and I got tired of repeating myself, and especially because I knew he could do better.
I object to your analogy of the pound puppy since that implies the slave has no skills whatsoever and knows no life or world outside its slavery. However, the analogy of puppy may be quite apt. Sometimes, a puppy does things you had not thought you needed rules for, like chew on your shoes or peeing everywhere. Sometimes, no matter how much work you put into correcting the behaviour, you cannot get there. Sometimes, its when problems start when you realise you didn't actually want to own a puppy at all. There is nothing else for it except release, finding the slave/puppy a new life for it to thrive in.
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