My sister and dogs *rant*

[*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!