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Thank you for taking her in and giving her a good home, she definatly deserves it!!!
We have a dog who’s first owner treated him like a toy and then ‘threw him away’ when he was no longer a puppy and was wild cause he didn’t spend any time with him (not to mention the neglect and possible abuse he suffered) Now he is such a sweetie and is Dads best buddy and lets us know how happy he is everyday and that he loves us alot!!!I’m not a dog person. I don’t have the time to pour the discipline and patience that you need to give a puppy or younger dog.
Cats, on the other hand, I dearly love. My mum let me get my first cat for my 14th birthday. I was adopted by a year-old ginger beastie. She had been abused, and was terrified of bottles for a year or so. And she was the sweetest, most loving, demanding, loud, cantakerous affectionate little rascal after she’d been with us six months.
She never grew properly, presumably due to the abuse. Our vet suspected malnourishment as a kitten or growing cat, as her legs were always a bit shorter than they should have been.
Sadly, she had an accident (a slight tendency to run up to cars to say hello will do that) and I lost her, but I know she had five gloriously happy years with me.
I’ll only adopt adult cats, from rescues. Kittens are easy to home, adult cats, not as much.
My last four dogs have all been adoptees. Usually older. My last was 13 years when I got him. Sadly, I had to put him to sleep last November. Still, temporarily, dogless.
4 of the 5 kitties I live with are rescues. Our last one, a beutiful black oriental boy was actually put out by people in our apartment complex because they were moving and didn’t want him anymore. They did even take him to a shelter or anything, just let him go! Thankfully, he followed roomate home, and when I came home from lunch, he was sitting by our door, sweet as pie. He’s now my husband’s best little buddy. If I could rescue them all I would…no animal deserves to be unloved..and anyone who can just give their pets away makes me sick and angry. A pet is like a child…for life!!! 🙁
Keeper of the Fledgings
I’m right up here with y’all on the dispose-A-pet thing. Grrrrr! 👿
We’ve had a couple critters that were rescues. Our Turkish Angora kitty was a throw away; her owner either died or was put in a nursing home, and the family didn’t want her, and tossed her out with the trash. Literally. A neighbor finally caught her and took her to the shelter. We got the call because we were looking for another long haired cat. For the first year, every time we put on coats or picked up our car keys, this poor cat would RUN to the food bowl, and frantically stuff her face full of kibble. When we started packing to move to where we are now, I thought this cat was going to have a nervous breakdown. She would crouch in the middle of the room with her eyes all dilated and just shake. When we moved down here, and started upacking the boxes, she went through a kind of epiphany, like she realized we weren’t going to throw her out again. She has been the sweetest cat; she greets everybody that comes in, will sit on a strangers lap and purr, and for the life of me, I will NEVER understand how someone could just toss out a pet. We also had adopted an Aussie who’s family just couldn’t handle her anymore. The dog was smarter than the people were. But that’s a rant for another day.
Kudos to you for opening your heart AND your home to take in those poor unfortunates!tasgrs, I bet every time you saw that poor kitty shaking, you wanted to go after the previous owners. Somebody dumped my Domino in our neighborhood and he ended up in our backyard. For the first month he basically hid under the bed and would only sneak out to eat and use the litter box. We’ve had him going on 3 years now, but certain things still shake him up…he hates plastic bags and belts to this day. I can only imagine what he went through, poor thing. 😡 He’s turned into a big sweetheart, though. 😀
So sad to hear about how a lot of you got your pets, but also I’m SO glad that their lives are so much better now that they are loved. I have two cats-I first was Sneezer-he was two when I got him. His previous owner decided to move to the next town over and just didn’t want to take Sneezer with him-so just chucked him out the door and left. Poor Sneezer was running around outside for two weeks before I got him. Thankfully the neighbor saw him and had been putting food out for him. I’ve had him for 7 years now.
My second cat Callie was found as a kitten in a cardboard box by the side of the road with her brother and sister. Thankfully a friend of a friend found them and took them in. All 3 got homes, but Callie is a very shy and terrified of anyone but me. She’s wonderful with me, very loving and has such a tiny dainty voice, but anyone else so much as knocks on the door and she hides till they are gone. I’ve had Caddy for 6 years.
So, are you guys going to hate me for rehoming my two big dogs because they are a physical danger to my older dog Jewel? I love Sierra and Isabeau, but they literally try to kill Jewel if I let them out with her. And run over the kids in their eagerness to tear Jewel to bits. I am not completely sure why they hate her so much, but they do.
They get along fine with Ein our other little dog, the cats, the kids, (when Jewel isn’t in view), and the other two dogs we have. But Jewel has been in our family for 7 years, and the other two are young, only 2 years old. I think they will make great dogs for families in which they would be the only dog.
At the moment I may have a home for Isabeau, and she’ll get to live in a Alaska, she’s a husky/malmute cross, so would do well, and be the only dog and spoiled rotten.
Sierra is a red border collie, and I imagine she will find a home pretty fast once we offer her to a new home. But getting rid of Jewel isn’t an option, and leaving these two to live their lives in the indoor/outdoor kennel isn’t fair to them. If they wouldn’t attempt to kill Jewel, we’d just keep them, but losing Jewel isn’t worth it. She’s my baby dog.
Kyrin
Why would we hate you…unless you threw the dogs out onto the street, of course. 😉 That’s sad that they don’t get along and you can’t keep them, but sometimes these things happen. I had to give up two of my cats due to behavioral problems (with other cats), but I paid good money for a no-kill shelter to take them. When we checked back, they had been adopted very quickly. I don’t think it’s the re-homing itself that’s the problem…just the method some people use to do it.
Oh no not at all Kyrin! In your situation rehoming is the best option, you can’t risk one animal getting killed because the other two go after her. My problem is people doing ‘trade ins’-Their pet starts to get older, isn’t as adorable as it was when it was a baby and maybe has some health problems, so they dump it in a shelter. I believe the person in this thread was getting rid of her 8 year old because she wanted to keep some of her other dogs puppies. Puppies would have a LOT better chance at finding a home than an 8 year old. I had a friend who had to rehome one of her cats because he just didn’t do well with the other cats-it’s was sad for everyone, but he got to have a better life as the only cat in a home-I certainly never thought badly of my friend for rehoming Rambler.
lamortefille wrote:Pretty babies, Eleu! You’re right at least they all have great homes now. 😀
Thank you so much! I love them and they are totally spoiled :* Callie likes to sit on my art desk while I do PYOs, and she steals my paintbrushes 😉
lamortefille wrote:Why would we hate you…unless you threw the dogs out onto the street, of course. 😉 That’s sad that they don’t get along and you can’t keep them, but sometimes these things happen. I had to give up two of my cats due to behavioral problems (with other cats), but I paid good money for a no-kill shelter to take them. When we checked back, they had been adopted very quickly. I don’t think it’s the re-homing itself that’s the problem…just the method some people use to do it.
Okay, got it. Yeah, they have all their shots, and I am planning on getting them spayed this summer, so they will be all set vet-wise for their new homes. Sierra is really a sweetheart, if she wasn’t so horrid to Jewel, we’d really be trying to keep her. But she actively hunts her and won’t let her rest or move without her permission if I let Sierra out. If Jewel dares to sass to get her to leave her alone, Sierra jumps her, last time I had to superglue 9 wounds closed on Jewel once I got Sierra off her. That was the final straw.
Isabeau doesn’t even give Jewel that much freedom, it is a straight charge to kill her, no hesitation, no chances, just full out attack. And she ignores all humans in her way, and won’t stop, even when you have hold of her and are pulling with all you’ve got.
Last time I tried to see if they could get along I was pregnant with Karli and she knocked me down and was dragging me in her attempt to get Jewel, meanwhile my husband was desperately trying to get Jewel out from under us, while she cowered and yiped…it was really bad. We’ve kept them isolated from the other dogs since, they get out to run, but only when everyone else is safely parked inside the house.
They don’t hurt people, even when trying to kill Jewel, they just run over the top of them, and ignore us, though Sierra will stop when told as long as she is still just hunting, but once she decides to attack Jewel to put her in her place, she won’t listen.
Anyway, we are planning on leaving out the attempts to kill Jewel, just going to say they don’t get along with our other dogs, and would be happier in a one dog home.
Our other 4 dogs get along great together, play and everything, and Jessie and Dawn are much bigger than Jewel and Ein, but to see them play, you’d think it was the other way around.
Kyrin
Kyrin, you are getting rid of two dogs that are problematic to a dog you have had for years. You have tried your best to correct the problem, and for whatever reason, the dogs aren’t responding. You’ve done all you can. No one should resent you for “giving it the ol’ college try” and finally coming to the conclusion you did.
My Rott mix actually tried to kill my lab mix, as I’ve posted in other threads. He was completely unsocialized and we had tried all we could for five years to socialize him before he tried to kill her. We just didn’t realize how far it had gotten until we found her with the left side of her face open 😯 😥 . It is good you are getting rid of them before they do serious damage to Jewel. My lab mix is happy, by the way, being the only dog and spoiled rotten and she will be seven this year (he tore her up when she was five).
Sometimes despite all our best efforts, some pets go astray. You’ve done all you can. Don’t feel bad.
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