Last week, I posted that my neighbors had gotten a dog for the family. Marley, the black lab, went back yesterday:(
The good news is, he went back into foster care, not into a kill shelter, but unfortunately, this was his 4th or 5th home.
I don't understand why they even got him. They have 2 cats, and the dad doesn't even like dogs. I think a puppy or a smaller breed may have been a better idea, or nothing at all.
Apparently he nipped one of the kids, and bit the older daughter (she's 15), while she was trying to put the leash on him.
Poor guy, he was so sweet. I loved him to death. If he got loose from their house, he would run and sit at our front door--we only met him a couple times, so I don't really know why he did it, but it was sweet.
They had adopted him through PAWS, who told them that he would be a great family dog. He is a year and a half old labrador, and they never mentioned that he is still a pup. These people wanted an adult dog, and a lab at 18 months is not. He had lived with one man before, a guy getting his masters, and unfortunately, when he gratuated, he couldn't take Marley. His girlfriend took him, but she couldn't keep him either, so he went to live at a frat house, before they gave him to PAWS. The man fostering him owns a kennel, and fosters their dogs a lot. He said Marley was definitely a one man dog , and he was surprised it took them this long to bring him back--he shouldn't have been adopted out as a "perfect family dog" without some training.:mad:
The whole situation makes me very sad--I didn't think they should have gotten a dog in the first place, since the dad doesn't like dogs, but they did, and poor Marley thought he had a home for a week:(
And, I'm sure some of you may be wondering, they were prohibited from giving Marley to anyone else, under the contract they signed, that's why I don't have a fourth:)
