I've made the very painful decision to rehome my dog. Someone from a rescue is coming to pick him up tomorrow. I've been crying non stop since yesterday. Thing is, his old owners hadn't socialised him at all (he's a german shepherd) and had cruelly split him from his sister and he hasn't been able to adjust to being the only dog. He was a "much beloved" dog and his old owner wanted to keep intouch but the minute she got home she effed us off. All we knew was that he was boisterious and the minute we got him we knew he'd been abused, not toilet trained and didnt know any commands. The past 6 months we've had him we have worked tirelessly with him and he's responded great. However because he misses his sister badly he goes berserk at other dogs on the lead and has nearly gotten us run over. I'm completely breaking down every five minutes because I don't want to rehome him but he's miserable with us and keeping him out of love is the wrong thing to do. I'll never forget you Kye. You've done nothing wrong or let us down. I'll love you forever
Awww, big hugs to you, babe. It's can be hard having an unruly canine friend. Here's wishing you peace and acceptance through this all.
Dogs are mutant wolves and make shit pets. However on the pet loss sympathy front I feel your pain, I cryed for hours when my house rabbit died.
I didnt find that funny. I'm serious because I love him. I have never felt pain like this in my life. But thanks to Mammamojo and ozzydreads for their extremely kind words. I hope he never forgets us. he'll be in my heart forever. pypes I know how you feel. But my dog... He used to cower every time we stroked him. Here I go, Breaking into tears again
most dogs that go berserk at other dogs do it because they feel threatened (and/or scared) from prior abuse. they easily feel threatened.
He'll be going to a rescue in an hour 40 mins... I feel like I've failed him. But I've done well with him. Trained him from nothing but we've not been able to get him used to being the only dog. I'm happy that he'll find someone who can give him what he needs.... I just wish it could've been me. Feeling mixed at the moment. Relief, happiness, stress and extremely sad.
awww...I know how you feel. I had theee most wonderful dog...Karma. She was a lab/pitt mix and crrraaaaazzzzaaaayyyy! She was feisty around dogs [in a playful way] and extremely feisty around people [in a not so playful way]. She was great with me because she knew I was mamma....but was an overall handfull. When I had my daughter I had to make the very painful decision of giving Karma away because I was afraid she'd try to eat my daughter or something! I felt horrible for months and months....I felt like I had completely failed her. But with time...the heart does heal....and you move on. It'll get better!
He was rehomed yesterday to a German Shepherd trainer with 38 years experience. Surprisingly Kye absolutely loved the guy. It wasn't as hard as I thought. We had a final game of fetch before he went. I hope he understands it's the best thing for him. I miss him terribly.
wow, reading that actually made me happy. I'm glad it worked out well, hope you get to see him again one day.
