Irresponsible Dog Owners.
Quote: He should require the daughter to mockwalk a dog for 45 minutes every morning and 45 minutes every evening. Down to the park, around the block, in all weather, no excuses, no misses. For a month. Just for fun, require her to find and pick up after someone elses dog and bring it home. I also had suggested to him that the dog would likely outlive his daughter's residence at the house -- was she going to take the dog to college with her and not go out with the gang after class to come back and care for the dog and so forth? He assured me she'd get off-campus housing just for the dog. Excuse me one moment. Ahahahahahahahaha ahahahahahahaha hahahahahaha ahahahaha ahahahahaha hahah heh sigh. OK, I'm back. He didn't accept any of the advice and of course within 2 weeks his wife and he became the primary k9 caregivers. He whines to me on occasion about having to walk the dog but strangely his anger is focused on his wife, not his daughter. Who knows, maybe his wife "co-signed" the obligation with his daughter. I don't know. His daughter is now in her second year away at college. She doesn't even walk the dog when she's home for a visit. The dog is a toy breed and will likely live another 10 years. Give or take. The dog isn't particularly well cared for; every time that we visit Joan and I are grooming the dog, taking gobs of dried out eye gunk out of the fur, cutting mats, checking for ticks. Although I must say my brother likes having the dog on his lap as he watches TV. No, they never pick up after their dog, and they don't understand why we do --and laughs at us for doing it. He does love carrying the dog into stores and restaurants and airports and generally sticking a finger into the eye of society, but that's the kind of guy he is. Do you have anyone you would love to tell off -- but can't? |
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My sister. She is always acquiring dogs from the local humane society, which sounds nice except: every single dog she's ever had has become grossly overweight (as is my sister) because she constantly feeds the poor things treats, her own treats, plus it's (usually low quality because it's cheap which begs the question of If you would only stop buying your dog crappy treats you could afford decent dog food and if you can't afford decent dog food maybe you should have fewer or zero dogs)own food. She lives alone, works long hours meaning the dogs are alone for a long time 5 days a week or more, if she decides to visit or do errands on weekends. To my knowledge, not one of her dogs has ever actually been on a walk. The are given full run of her small house and in/out of the back door into the fenced yard at will. Unfortunately, I don't think the yard is ever picked up (  ) and her dogs are.....imperfectly house trained, to say the least. And sometimes bring dead animals inside the house. She sleeps with the dogs (however many there are) who wake all night long and constantly want to go in/out of the house. They won't come in when called unless (you guessed it) she has a treat in her hand, and even then it can be an iffy proposition, meaning that each mid-night potty break is accompanied by multiple dogs barking and my sister yelling for the dog to quit barking, then outside, then pleading turning into yelling for the dog(s) to come back into the house. Yikes. I stopped staying at her home when I visited the area years ago, largely but not completely for this reason. This has been going on for... more than 20 years. She's intelligent and well educated but clueless about how to live a decent life. No she won't change, and no , she should not have dogs and yes, in separate issues: she should have a good psychiatric evaluation, counseling and probably medication. I am not saying this to be mean, just this is how it really is at her house. I wish that she would get the help she needs but in the case of our family, her own inability to self evaluate or look at anything she does with the tiniest bit of objectivity is completely missing. I am a terrible, terrible, terrible person to suggest in any way shape or form that she is not a saint and perfect in every way. Just ask anyone in my family. Does she love her dogs? Yes, very much. Does she have a tiny idea about how to raise and care for a dog? Nope, despite the volumes of books about dogs and dog behavior and the subscription to Dog Fancy, etc. For her and one of my other sisters (who does better with her dogs but almost the same as the first sister mentioned with her child), love = indulging any want/whim of the pet/child under their care. Then exploding at misbehavior and blaming bad outcomes on others, in the case of my sister with a child: her ex who is a lousy absentee father, yes but is not the whole problem. My youngest sister and I are what I would consider normal. We expect our kids and our pets to be well behaved and to have some sort of schedule/routine, etc. I am not sure why there is such a dramatic difference in our approaches to our lives but there it is. |
| Oh heck, give her Cesar Milan's DVD.....I'm not sure she'll learn anything but she might enjoy watching dogs with the same bad habits as her's. If the sister hasn't read the material given to her, maybe a DVD is more her speed. No discussion on Cesar's techniques, please. That's not the issue here. Or you can just keep your distance from her..............works for me. |
| No, no: you don't get it. She HAS read all of the books and probably watches Cesar Milan, too. Sadly. And yes, I bless every single one of the 564 miles between her house and mine. |
Unfortunatley, anyone I want to tell off, I just do  |
I also know a couple of different families who should not have dogs. One family gives so many table scraps that the dog is three times the size it should be. The dog is so overweight that she can no longer do stairs, and sometimes, when she gets up, she cries out in pain.  It's horrible. But the owner claims she LOVES her dog! I tell her taht she is loving her dog to death.Laurie and Oscar |
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