Do You Like Carrying Your Dogs?

My oldest dog, who was a coonhound mix, did not like to be picked up at all. In fact, for some reason, I was the only person she would allow to pick her up. I was also the person who rescued her from the pound, so that may have something to do with it. But from the day I got her, any time anyone picked her up she would cry as a puppy, and as an adult she would become pretty aggressive. The hardest point was when I she had to get surgery on one of her legs, and I had to carry her outside and hold her while she squatted to go, because she couldn't squat on her own.