My sister and dogs *rant*

[sabies]

Oh gosh, all these terrible stories, Amy you are not alone!

I have a sister who is capable of giving up her dog (with an excuse of course) and then buy another. That's buy not rescue, and she doesn't even have money for that! I thought I was going to help her look at shelters, I sent her petfinder links, . . . next thing I know they have a dog.

As has been mentioned, there is nothing you can do more than state your mind (unless it's something illegal). It is frustrating but just be proud of yourself for not being that way and keep in mind that there are many people out there respectful of animals. I hope your example will help your nieces/nephews to not follow in their parents' footsteps.

[*LabLoverKEB*]

That just pissed me off to no end... I'm so sorry to hear this, Amy.

[sabies]

One thing I keep reading in these stories is that people are selling their dogs when they give them up!! It's not bad enough that they are giving up on what is their responsibility and what should be considered part of the family but they expect to get some money out of it?!

[RobiLee]

We've talked about this before so I know how much your sister upsets you. You know I have family like this too. My brother-in-law and his ex-wife use to drive me crazy! He is not much of a animal lover and she was always getting pets and never taking care of them and getting rid of them. I can't even tell you how many died. The one case that sticks out in my head was when they had two dogs that they kept chained waaaaaay out back in the corner. It was a hot day and we were outside playing ball with the kids and Brandon told me to look at thier food and water bowls. There was nothing in them. The bowls looked like they had just been laying there forever and were completely covered with dust. There couldn't have been any water in the water bowl for quite sometime. We made sure the dogs got some fresh water that day. Right after their divorce she got a mastiff and of course he was soon chained up outside and the last time I ran into her she told me they had just got a bassett hound. Who knows where those dogs are now.

My cousin use to have 5 chis and I just found out that she now has 4 large dogs. I asked my aunt what happened to the little ones and I got a "Oh, she got rid of them" reply. Uhhhh, WHY...was what came out of my mouth. It happened during a difficult time for her. Her husband had just died from a nasty and difficult battle with cancer and she went a bit crazy after that and did some strange things. I have to try and let that go because I know how hard it was for her. Its still kind of hard to understand though, but I won't judge her because I can't even imagine what she went through.

[sanford8916]

My mom is that way. I can't even count the number of animals that she has had since I have been married for 12 years, of course she doesn't have any of them, and most of them I am not sure what really happened to them. After she got the last puppy and kept it for a month or two, I decided the if she gets another animal, I will call animal control on her. We took one dog and one cat away from her but I can't keep taking in animals everytime she changes her mind. I do have to say, there are alot of people who don't think twice about getting rid of an animal when it gets to hard. I have to neighbors, one just got rid of her cat and another is looking for a new home for her dog, just becasue she doesn't want to pay $25 more a month for rent!

[sumbirdy]

My brother and sister-in-law had a chocolate lab puppy. They told me that they forgot to feed her often but "it was okay because when they did feed her they fed her a lot" I can't even imagine that. I have to feed my dogs everyday. Sometimes i have to go home early to feed them and i tell the people that i have to go because my dogs are expecting me, they're hungry. They also had a baby recently and told mom they didn't want the dog so she asked what they were going to do with her and they said they were just going to drop her off. Mom started crying and my brother said "oh mom, its just a dog" Luckily mom convinced them to give her to a friend. They live with us now and i recently caught my sister-in-law kicking my dog because he wouldn't get out of her way. Tiny's lazy and everyone's learned to step over him because he just lays there but that didn't give her any right to kick him! I was furious! She is no longer allowed to even touch any of my dogs and i'm still not speaking to her. (She kicked him pretty hard) Tiny has become very whiney since then. People like them should never be allowed to keep animals. I could go on and on about them but i'm running out of time.

[Zippy]

It is so sad so many of us have family members that are alike in there care or noncare of animals

[slleipnir]

My sister is the same way *Sigh* She got a GSD puppy a while ago...It had some health problem and got really sick so she gave it back to the humane society. Then she got a kitten. Whenever it was old enough and in heat, she gave it away. She said it pee'd everywhere. (it didn't, she just couldn't afford to get it fixed and didn't like hearing it be in heat) Then she got a JRT....it eventually got really aggressive and she had to give it away. It was put to sleep because it was just too aggressive. Probably because it wasn't walked enough for such a hyper dog. I TOLD her not to get that dog, but nooo. When I asked how he was doing she said "Oh, he's dead." like it was nothing.

Now she has a lab mix named Jade. She is probably a year or 2 now, and I'm suprised she kept her this long. I thought for sure she would be gone by now, especially since she's not a pup anymore. But she actually seems to love this dog and not want to give it up....She even takes it jogging with her (appearintly) I really think she thinks more of this dog than any others she's had.