He's gone..

This is so sad. I can't even begin to relate since I have never been in this situation. Each time I have adopted an animal he/she was mine until the day they left for the Rainbow Bridge. My hope is that Ozzy's next home will be his forever home so that he doesn't ever have to go through this again. My wish for Cayter is that she might be able to get past this. I know if I ever had to do such a thing I would wonder each day for the rest of my life how my dog was doing. I suspect there will be some gut-wrenching and soul searching days ahead for Cayter. :(

I'd like to say a few other things...

*TO ME* it did not seem like she was doing this for Ozzy, she seemed as if she wanted to do "other things", because she told us a little while ago she was going to wait until after summer to see how it goes, and *to me* it seemed like she had more important things to do when school was out...

I also think that her age doesn't matter, I got my RB black lab when I was just 7 or so, and I still knew he was mine for life, and that when friends would ask me to come places, birthday parties..etc, if Shadow hadn't been played with much that day or anything like that, I would give up things, even at that age.

And Im still, what you all call, a child(17) and I would glady give up anything for my pups, people my age usually like new clothes and stuff, I haven't had new clothes since Christmas, and I also wanted my hair cut and highlighted for months, but Jasper comes first.

And IMO if Ozzy is not her first priority now, maybe he never was? How do we know that he ever came first?

Just my opinions, I dont think its fair to hold back on what we think just because of her age, shes probably not much younger than I am...

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Originally posted by GoldenRetrLuver
I'm not sure if it's a good idea to bring this up or not, but..

I've recentely read some posts where people had to rehome their birds, because they felt they couldn't do their best to take care of them, didn't get along with their other pets, or have enough time for them, etc. and yet they were supported by EVERYONE. Why than is Cayter treated 'differently' when she posts that she had to rehome Ozzy? Like I, and some others have said, it was in his best interest (just like the birds), and she was not being selfish.

This is not meant to target anyone, I just felt the need to bring it up.

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Completely agreed.

If someone can give me a perfectly liable, understandable response to this, then I'll drop my issue with this ... but until then, I'm still pretty disheartened by the responses to this thread.

I'm not sure which birds or animals you're speaking of, or if you're even talking about me, but the thing that got me most upset is the fact that she put her activities before her dog. One or two of those activities could have easily, in my opinion only, been dropped before getting rid of a beloved pet.

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I'm not sure which birds or animals you're speaking of, or if you're even talking about me, but the thing that got me most upset is the fact that she put her activities before her dog. One or two of those activities could have easily, in my opinion only, been dropped before getting rid of a beloved pet.

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exactly
and I have no clue what happened that their were birds rehomed, so I can't comment on that at all.

*Edited out.*

I really don't appreciate my situation with Dusk being brought into this thread. It was a VERY different situation, and it is something that continuously breaks my heart, even though I hear him when I talk to my grandmother and hear him singing to her.

You stated you didn't wish to single people out, then linked their threads, singling them out.

Edit: I think I reacted a bit strongly, it is just an extremely painful situation for me, and definitely not something I am "over" and I wonder at times if I ever will be.

I think those bird situations were totally different and don't really need to be brought up into this thread.

I missed her post, but if indeed Jessica's bird post was brought up it was completely different than this, again, IMHO.

Excuse me, but how is it different? All of these situations involved rehoming a pet to provide a better life for it. Am I missing something? If so, please let me know ... but I think I'm being pretty complete here.

There is no difference between a dog, a cat, a bird, a horse, a mouse -- whatever the pet may be. So please, don't get all touchy about this simply because it involves a dog. It seems as if it is at that point, and it really does not need to be. It's not fair to start pointing fingers and deciding that you know the reason behind all of this. Why? Because you don't. Unless someone can stand up and tell me they can read Cayter's mind, then lay off it and offer some compassion and sympathy to her. This is a hard time for her ... she's given something up that she adores and considers a part of her family.

She made the decision she felt was right -- whether you agree with it or not is not the issue here. At this point, the issue is that feelings are being hurt and unneccessary words and comments are being posted. The last thing Cayter needs right now is to be made to feel three times smaller by rude, thoughtless comments that would be better left unsaid.

I know I've already said this ... but as this thread drags on and is made into something more than it needs to be, I just continued to get more and more appalled. :(

It has nothing to do with what kind of animal it is. :rolleyes:

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but the thing that got me most upset is the fact that she put her activities before her dog.

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Excuse me, but how is it different? All of these situations involved rehoming a pet to provide a better life for it. Am I missing something? If so, please let me know ... but I think I'm being pretty complete here.

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You are missing plenty if you are referring to me. I should NOT have to explain my situation here. I stated earlier how I felt with regards to Oz. Every situation is different, and though it is hard for me to understand or relate to Cayter and Ozzy's situation, and I believe mistakes were made, I would not take it so far as to judge Cayter as a person.

That said, though I believe Dusk is in an overall better situation since his bonded mate died, the deciding factor was that my grandma had just lost her husband, and she needed my Dusk. I would rather this be dropped now, and am apalled and deeply upset that this has been brought here.

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it's hard to believe so many of you are adults here.

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It's very ironic you say such a thing. Brooke, you're the one who's dragging it farther and farther... and changing it into a completey different topic.


I do believe that some were harsh here, I don't think Jessica or myself were... so please do not take it out on us, or bring something that is completely irrelavant (Jessica's situation), in my opinion, into it.


and Please save the crying about smilies for somewhere else.