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Owners selling their family dogs for poor reasons!

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  • #52
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    I'm a self-confessed cynic but when I read "moving to new house" or "landlord no longer allows" or "moving abroad" - what I hear is "we have a new baby and we don't want a dirty dog around it"/ "we bought the dog for our kids because they really wanted it but now they are bored and we don't want to keep it anymore" / "we bought a cute puppy and we were really surprised when he grew and we don't like him now because he is not small and fluffy anymore" / "we got a dog and expected him to come trained so we didn't spend any time socialising/training him and now he is eating the furniture and barking at other dogs and humping the mother in laws leg".

    But.... I always figure at least the dog has a chance of a better life if it gets away from these owners and is re-homed by someone who knows that a dog is for life. :)


  • #53
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    Dogs have feelings and so many people forget that. The most heartbreaking thing I ever saw was a dog running after a van as the owners strayed it. How could anybody do that? I don't want to understand them, because by not understanding them it means I am not like them, and that's good because I would hate to be like them. And for anyone who thinks dogs don't pine and have feelings:

    On a cold winter night last year, a little dog wandered into our garden. He was scared, hungry and alone. I eventually managed to gain his trust and brought him inside. I knew straight away that he was someone else's rubbish because when I went to put a lead and harness on him, he got excited - walkies :( He gave the paw - someone had clearly spent enough time and had enough interest to do at least that much with him, and he wasn't cowed - he didn't look like he had been abused. Anyway, when no owner showed we did the usual Facebook plea for someone to foster him while we found a forever home. We were already full to the brim. A friend took him on "for a week" while I tried to find a home. Nada.

    In the interim, said friend fell in love with him and couldn't bear to part with him. He too fell in love with her and her partner and they are inseparable now.

    She took him to the vet for vaccs and he was scanned. He'd been chipped. He belonged to someone living hundreds of miles north. He'd been brought to the shelter numerous times when the owners tired of him. Eventually, he was brought to a shelter in Waterford. Why? Because he kept breaking out of the first shelter and returning "home". They figured if they brought him hundreds of miles away, he would never find his way home. He escaped again. And he did find his way home. Only this time, it was to his forever home, with people who will, for the rest of his valuable life, give him the love that he deserves.


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