SteveB wrote:
"Mary Healey" wrote in message
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"SteveB" wrote:
I left a $50 donation in addition of the adoption costs for the dog I
got to replace the Corgi.
Thereby embodying the phrase "more money than sense."

Is blood money supposed to impress us?

I'm sorry you weren't following the conversation, either that, or don't
have the synapses to grasp what was said. Some railing bitch asked why I
didn't volunteer time at an animal shelter. I said I made a donation
instead. Shelters would fail if they only had volunteers.

Did you get it that time, Sparky?

No?

And for the rest of you, or those who don't know what is going on, I put
down a Corgi who had bitten six people, myself four or five times, the last
taking two months to heal and very nearly breaking a finger. He sent one
person to the emergency room. He was unable to be trusted around my
grandchildren.

All the above means is that you lied through
your teeth when folks were asking about your
dog's behavior many months ago.

So, you lie, you refuse help, and then when
you kill your dog, its everyone else's fault.

Aren't you special?


He would not play with children, and had to be isolated
whenever any came over, sometimes up to eight children. His answer to most
situations was aggression and vicious hard biting. I wrote in and asked for
some help, and got lectured on a previous issue, but very little help with
what to do with the dog.


The help you got would have actually gone a
LONG way towards dealing with this very issue.

But you thought that paying too much
attention to your dogs habits was only for
control freaks.

So your dog got dead instead.

Your fault.


A Corgi rescue center in my state refused to take
him. A shelter would have euthanized him because of his history of biting,
and I wasn't going to lie so that someone would find out the hard way he was
a biter.

Why not? You lied here when folks were trying
to find out about his behavior in order to
help you.

But you were too busy (ironically) biting the
hand that was trying to feed you to actually
take any advice.

So, rather than being bitten again, I put him down. Hard to do
after nearly seven years, but I was thinking of it yesterday, and at least
now, the kids can play with the new dog and I don't have to worry. And I
don't have to put up with his snarling and biting when I just want him to
get out of the bathroom so I can mop, which was typical of our
confrontations. He pissed everywhere, and now it's nice not to have the
carpets cleaned every month and smelling skanky mall dog **** while I'm
eating. He had a dog door, and was let out, or the door was open, as we
live on a ranch.


He was bullying your large dog, biting and
snapping at your grandchildren, and pissing
all over your house. Wow.

And yet when asked, YOU said he was perfectly
well behaved. Just a few months ago you said
this. Many folks were asking why he was
getting away with bullying your bigger dog,
and you laughed it off and said he was "fine"
in all other ways and you simply wanted to
build a trough so your big dog wouldn't get
attacked over dinner.

My my, how the story changes.

I got a small tan terrier mix dog about a year old at the pound. She is a
doll, and seems to come every day and get in my lap and say, "Oh, thank you
thank you thank you for getting me out of that terrible place." She follows
orders pretty well, and hasn't growled or snapped yet. She likes to come
and watch TV with me, but falls asleep before the commercials. Very
different from a dog that I was afraid of and everyone else just tolerated.


Well, your capacity for ignoring budding
problems had YEARS to create a bad situation
with the corgi.

There's still plenty of time for you to ruin,
and then kill, this sweet little dog too.

I guess I could have let him bite one of the kids.

Or you could have just managed and trained him.

I'd assume that never occurred to you, except
that many of us repeatedly made that very
suggestion....so I know it was brought to
your attention as an option.

Then either my LEO
daughter or SIL would have taken him out and put an end to him. But rather
than put the kids through that trauma and scarring, I just did it myself.
There are some lovely sunflowers over his grave, and the simple marker he
earned.

What he earned was a better owner than you.

So, some of the keep a dog at any price people here have taken offense at
me.


I'm not now, nor have I EVER been a "keep a
dog at any price".

But what a handy way to absolve yourself of
responsibility!

You did nothing but lie about your dog and
attack anyone that made suggestions to you
about how to manage an intense little dog.
Take responsibility for yourself already.

I did what I did, and I didn't like it. I would have liked less to
take one of the kids to the ER, or to have to go there myself. I take
coumadin, and getting bitten by a dog is a bloody mess in my house for me.

That would be fine....if those had always
been the only two choices.

You made sure none of the workable choices
that involved NOT killing your dog ever got made.

I like it that each person gets to choose what they want to do with THEIR
pet.

Including kill it because they're too lazy to
train it. Yup, you have that right.

And I have the right to call you a moron, an
asshole and a pretty bad person.

It will soon be time to put the Lab down because of lymph node infection and
immune system issues. Or should I just keep giving her pain pills and let
her suffer so that I can "enjoy" her company no matter what the cost or the
pain involved for her?


Total red herring.

Your corgi died because you never took
action. And when people tried to suggest that
action was needed, you launched major attacks
on those that made suggestions.

And now your dog is dead.

I know my answer, but I don't care about yours. I
saw Marley and Me, a sad dog story, and I got from that the dog will let me
know when it is time. So far, she's on prednisone, and not 100%, but still
functioning and having a decent quality of life.

HTH, but I doubt it, for those who would put up with a dangerous dog with a
bad history and have it around very small children.



Actually, the only help you provide with
every post is as an example of what NEVER to do.