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10 Month old Dalmation, Female, Spayed, all shots up to date. Free to good family. Call xxx-xxx-xxxx

Dalmations can be rather high strung. You should have researched this before deciding on that really cute puppy. Now that you can't deal with it you want to just give her away. POS

Molly wrote:10 Month old Dalmation, Female, Spayed, all shots up to date. Free to good family. Call xxx-xxx-xxxx

Dalmations can be rather high strung. You should have researched this before deciding on that really cute puppy. Now that you can't deal with it you want to just give her away. POS

Are you helping to find her a home? When you try to build empathy with potential adopters by telling the pet's story, they always immediately question what's "wrong" with the pet that made their owner want to give it up, so you've got that stigma also.

We get requests at Tenth Life all the time for owner surrenders and we don't take them unless there are extreme circumstances. I have good friends with great intentions ask me too for their friends who want to give up their pets for any number of reasons. It sucks.

Good rant.

The human should be spayed/neutered.

That reminds me. I was watching a nature show the other night that was talking about invasive species. It was saying that Japan is overrun with raccoons and they aren't a native species. Apparently it was, and still is, the cute pet to own a baby raccoon. What happens when a baby wild animal grows up? That's right, it becomes aggressive and distructive so they take the animals into the rural area and turn them loose. The animals are now breeding like crazy and literally eating 1,000 year old temples.

I honestly don't understand the rant. Someone has a dog that for whatever reason isn't working out for them, and they want to find a good home. As long as they are honest about the issues with the dog, I don't understand what the current owners are doing wrong.

As far as researching before you get a dog, I was guilty of not doing this once in my life but I hardly consider myself a criminal. I never imagined Cocker Spaniels would be so flaky, especially ones from a "backyard breeder". We went to get the dog, the Mom about bit me but I figured she was nervous with the pups, and didn't think anything of it. Fast forward a year and we have a real problem on our hands. We tried everything - group training sessions, even leaving the dog with the trainer over the weekend for some one on one. Picked the dog up on Sunday and the trainer just said "Give up. It's a bad dog".

The choice was A) Keep the dog and have it continue biting kids including my own and B) getting rid of the dog, I had no problem making that choice. Took the dog to the vet and consulted with them who agreed with the trainers assessment. We put the dog down and it was the right choice.

there is a difference between someone who gets rid of a dog that requires too much attention, and getting rid of a violent dog.

It wasn't violent, it was nippy. It was fine with me and most adults. But it drew blood - twice.

We also got rid of a dog that we got at a shelter. We had it almost a year, and we just couldn't handle the destruction it caused. It was a cute dog, a really sweetheart, but unfortunately had obviously been badly abused before we got it. First day we got her home she ran away into a corn field after a construction truck down the street made a loud bang. The noise terrified her, and off she went. It was summer too, and I thought we would never find her and worried for her safety in the heat. She was not house broke, and it took 6 months because you simply couldn't discipline here. If you raised your voice to her, point a finger at her, let alone anything else - she would pee a little and then take off cowering somewhere. It was sad. But finally we got her reasonably house broke, until 6 months later when our schedules changed a little bit and she was left alone in the house for the morning. She was so upset apparently about being put in a crate for a couple of hours that she reverted, and even seemed to intentionally start up ruining the house again.

I hated to giver her back to the shelter, but a dog is a dog. This is why we went out and paid $500 13 years ago for our lab who is sleeping and snoring right next to me as I type. She has been far from perfect - but never an issue with biting or kids and outside of some puppy stuff that you expect no intentional destruction of property. Oh she ran through a screen door after a rabbit once, but I can't blame her for that. The rabbit was there, it looked like a clear path, and she seized the moment.

I'm with Jim on this one. Making one mistake by not doing the research is still much better than compounding it by keeping the dog and making both it and yourself miserable.

I guess I think if a pet draws blood it is too violent for me.

Atleast they are trying to find it a good home. We get cats dumped at the farm all the time. We feed and water them and usually they get petted if they are friendly enough to come around. I think we have 8 now, including one that has taken up residence in the shop for the last four years.