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Another Jerk
gunnut505
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Dog.
I rescued a critter last week at the City shelter, while dropping off the 4th stray cat I caught in my garden trap.
I was told that if I wanted to give back any more cats; I would have to help make room for them by taking a critter home.
They told me that I could do a trial run for a week, and if it didn't work; I could swap for another critter.
I picked Stan, a recidivist Heeler/Beagle/Something cross, because they said he wouldn't survive another incarceration.
Stan was all happy to go with me, and was licking my arm all the way home.
I gave him some water at the house, took a stroll through a nearby park with him, and it looked like he would work very well.
We spent the next 4 days playing in the yard, cruising in the truck, reinforcing the good & overlooking the not so good.
Yesterday, he turned into a Jerk.
He had fetch down, sat on command, watched intently while I showed him HIS toys, and only ate what I put in his bowl.
Overnight, he ate a hole in the screen door to the backyard, dug up 95% of my garden, crapped on what was left, killed 3 birds, jumped my 5' wall and chased some kids at the school bus stop, growled at my neighbors, and chewed through another neighbor's Range Rover soft convertible top. Then he brought everyone back to my place.
Animal Control showed up & demanded his papers, wrote me a ticket for a Dangerous Animal on the loose, told me to invest in a chain, and left.
Well, I can't chain him to anything, because that would violate the progliblefty animal Care ordinance, and I can't muzzle him for the same reason.
I had to pay a bundle for the new soft top, and when I took him back to the shelter, they wanted me to pay for euthanization, too.
Just can't win with this situation.
I rescued a critter last week at the City shelter, while dropping off the 4th stray cat I caught in my garden trap.
I was told that if I wanted to give back any more cats; I would have to help make room for them by taking a critter home.
They told me that I could do a trial run for a week, and if it didn't work; I could swap for another critter.
I picked Stan, a recidivist Heeler/Beagle/Something cross, because they said he wouldn't survive another incarceration.
Stan was all happy to go with me, and was licking my arm all the way home.
I gave him some water at the house, took a stroll through a nearby park with him, and it looked like he would work very well.
We spent the next 4 days playing in the yard, cruising in the truck, reinforcing the good & overlooking the not so good.
Yesterday, he turned into a Jerk.
He had fetch down, sat on command, watched intently while I showed him HIS toys, and only ate what I put in his bowl.
Overnight, he ate a hole in the screen door to the backyard, dug up 95% of my garden, crapped on what was left, killed 3 birds, jumped my 5' wall and chased some kids at the school bus stop, growled at my neighbors, and chewed through another neighbor's Range Rover soft convertible top. Then he brought everyone back to my place.
Animal Control showed up & demanded his papers, wrote me a ticket for a Dangerous Animal on the loose, told me to invest in a chain, and left.
Well, I can't chain him to anything, because that would violate the progliblefty animal Care ordinance, and I can't muzzle him for the same reason.
I had to pay a bundle for the new soft top, and when I took him back to the shelter, they wanted me to pay for euthanization, too.
Just can't win with this situation.
Comments
Ever.
You are a good Man to give him a chance.
I've still got White Trash, Duct tape furniture repairs to remind me of my good deed.
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Find another pound to deliver to.
In my opinion your good deed was noble in thought but misguided; put the crazy head-busted dog down before it really does sink its teeth into some unsuspecting kid.
Go to the shelter and take the money you will save in tickets and paying for destruction of property and give it to them to spay and neuter more critters. Then adopt a shelter animal based upon the dogs potential for being a good pet and companion.
Flame on.
Next time you catch a "critter" drop it off with a box of .22LR or a jug of the "good" Prestone.
Then he went apespit.
The "new" replacement (in lieu of paying to kill Stan) is probably 8 or 10 years old, and the most accurate description would be "flaccid".
They called him Zipper at the shelter; must be one of those ironic things, so I named him Red. He responds quickly to it, but that's his only English I guess. I've tried a few words in other languages, but I guess he's either deaf & an empath, or has a hole in his vocabulary box.
Hope I don't wind up dragging him around in the garden cart, I've only seen him perambulate about 100 yards so far.
If you lead a sedimentary life, you need to get a sedimentary dog. Because people like you do an injustice to dogs that have a lot of energy like a healer.
Take emto court
He started dating this liberal animal-lover cuckoo who recently convinced him to rescue a pit bull. The dog was a brood-* that was used as bait for other fighting dogs that the * former "owner" had. My buddy spent a bundle paying for the dogs' medical rehab, adoption fees, etc. while it was in the rescue place. After a couple of weeks of visits and payments he then brought this ticking time bomb home.
They brought that insane POS on our camping trip last weekend. He insisted that everyone else has to leash their dogs at all times, despite the fact that in 6 years no dog we bring has ever had an issue. His leashed mutt then proceeds to charge my dog, which was laying under my chair in the sand. I was not happy and let him know it.
The next day the POS bit his cousins daschund, chewed through her rope and attacked my pointer with my wife standing next to her ( I was anchoring the boat at the time) and it repeatedly growled/barked at one of my 8 year old girls. Needless to say I told them in no uncertain or safe-for-work terms that if that mutt wasnt chained in the bed of his truck for the last day I was going to shoot it and toss it in the desert, and if it ever appears at a camping trip again they will be camping alone from now on.
Why anyone thought they could deprogram a trained killer like that beast is beyond me. I am still pissed, and wont go to his house for bbqs if it is still there. F-that!
Good luck with your quest for a dog...hopefully you will find a friend
At least you tried.
My last three dogs were all strays. One wandered up to my house.
The other two I found on the side of the road, I live way out in the country.
All three were young, maybe one year old. All three turned out to be just wonderful pets I loved them all.
Sounds like you're not spending enough time walking with him. Dogs only chew on things when they're teething and when they're bored and still have excess energy. Healers are extremely high energy dogs and need a lot of exercise mine is a blue healer/bluetick hound mix and I take him out for a 5 mile run every day. Because let's face it, they're bred to herd cattle all day long, running back-and-forth, and chasing Down strays takes a lot energy, but if they don't burn that energy Off they are bored stiff.. There also one of the most loyal dogs you'll ever see.I don't think it's your dog, I think it's you judging by the way you talked about him for the first 4 days He was perfect.
If you lead a sedimentary life, you need to get a sedimentary dog. Because people like you do an injustice to dogs that have a lot of energy like a healer.
You obviously have a reading comprehension disability, or something like "Ann Landers Syndrome".
6 of 7 days doesn't add up to 4.
Walking is what I do when the Sun's up. The critter was with me the whole 6 of 7 days, walking.
I've had Dalmatians, which are hyper like Greyhounds; I've had Danes, St. Bernards, Chows, Shepherds, a Vizla, an Akita, a breeding pair of Huskies, and 2 jerk dogs.
Pretty sure it's not me. My Basenji would have told you that.
I think Red's narcoleptic, he seems startled every time he wakes up.