and so it goes

[walkawayslowly]

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[quiet000001]

Awww. I hate it when that happens. (I know people make the decision to put healthy dogs down for some very good reasons, but sometimes I really do feel like some people take it as an option because giving the dog to someone else who might be more successful with it would mean that they'd 'failed' - whereas if they put the dog down they can tell everyone it was a bad dog, you know?)

I'm so sorry for your loss, he looks like a sweetheart. I'm sure you would've done whatever you could for him - you didn't fail him, they didn't give you the option to help.

(I don't know if you remember, but right after we got Pirate I was completely freaked out that we were going to have to put him down because he bit Foxy. Or that if we took him back, the rescue would put him down. This reminds me I have to thank my parents yet again for being the kind of people who really understand the responsibility we had to him because we took him in, and so let me keep him while we saw how things settled.)

[walkawayslowly]

He was a really precious, funny, loving dog. I know he had issues, my brother would NOT have put him down for no reason at all, but they were workable, you know? If there wasn't the baby and the other dog, and the cats, and my brother's work schedule, etc.

Blah. It just makes me so angry and sad all at once, you know?

And sorry to say that I don't remember that about Pirate, but I'm glad it worked out for you.

[quiet000001]

Yeah. When the thing with Pirate happened it really reminded me how fragile the situation can be for a pet - or when our previous dog developed epilepsy and needed expensive treatment and then daily medication until he grew out of it. There's so many people who just don't see them as worth the time/money/effort, and there's only so much that the people who DO see them as worth it can actually manage. (My aunt fosters rescue dogs, and that's been a big thing for her - being realistic about the type of issues she can deal with, because they may not be able to find another foster home

[walkawayslowly]

There's a trainer near where my brother lives that my mother has used for her German Shepherd, who BEGGED my brother to bring Koda to her before he made the decision to put him down. My brother didn't. I really don't know everything he did that led him to his decision, because I didn't hear about all of the outrageous problems until after.

It makes me outrageously angry, the way dogs get treated by people who think they're good people. My roommate was telling me about a woman who got a dog for her boys, a BORDER COLLIE, and kept it CRATED for about 16 hours a day, didn't train it, and gave it to the pound because it was wild and uncontrollable.

If you don't give your pets the tools to survive in a house with you, it's no one's fault but your own. UGH. PETS ARE NOT DISPOSABLE, PEOPLE.

[misskittye]

Wow, your sister in law is a real tough person to like.

That's a real shame about the dog. Did they ask around to see if anyone wanted a dog or did they think he was just too dangerous to give away?

[walkawayslowly]

RIGHT!? Do you SEE my issues? I'd like to like her, really I would, but she just makes it IMPOSSIBLE sometimes.

I think they deemed him too dangerous to give away. Which isn't necessarily true. My mom has a trainer that helped her with Greta that begged my brother to wait and let her assess the situation, but he didn't. I don't know what he did at all.

[destina]

*hugs you a lot*

[walkawayslowly]

thanks, honey.

[fryttu]

Ow, this is sad. *hugs*

[walkawayslowly]

yeah, seriously. thanks, hon.