On Feb 3, 2008 9:38 AM, Crow T. Robot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I gotta agree with gel here - your solution is the most fucked up thing i
> have heard. unless there is something you're not telling us, there has to
> be some other reason besides death??? besides, what kind of vet would just
> put a perfectly healthy dog down because he can't get along with your new
> baby?
He isn't perfectly healthy, which I briefly mentioned earlier.
He has no hips, either due to malnutrition or breeding. Basically
really really bad hip dysplasia. Makes it so he can't walk too far
(it's pure muscle holding his ass end together). He gets sore. He'll
tag you if he's hurting and you fuck with him-- he's so stoic it's
hard to tell when he's hurting. Adds a bit of unpredictability.
He also sometimes reacts bad if he feels cornered, and sometimes his
definition of cornered is a bit loose. Unpredictable. Nothing an
adult, or older kid can't handle, but a baby? He's fucking strong.
One bite could maim or kill.
He's got a bum knee. He's missing a good bit of his intestines, and
until recently, was puking 3 to 4 times a day. Ironically I finally
found a good routine to reduce that to nearly none just recently.
Yeah, part of the fucked-up-ed-ness is that he's actually doing
pretty good lately.
But we had a pact, the wife and I: If he showed one sign of aggression
towards the baby, he was outties.
A few days ago he snapped at the baby, and she's too new to know to
fear a growling dog. She would've gone back for more.
I pulled the "there wouldn't be a line in that song from the Sound of
Music about 'when the dog bites' if dogs didn't bite people" and "the
kids got to learn not to mess with dogs" arguments out when last we
discussed it-- but the wife is now fearful, and I can't have that.
He is too much of a family member to try to separate from the baby,
we're a tight family, together a lot.
If he was more predictable it would be different. Or if the baby was older.
Nothing too bad has happened, and the idea is to keep it that way.
We'd *all* feel bad if something more serious happened, ya know?
Right now it's still all good.
If you read me, you'd know how difficult this is for me. There would
/have/ to be more details I wasn't saying. My god!
We spent a week sleeping on the floor with the dude after a stomach
surgery, that the vet said they didn't think he was coming back from--
twice!
We love him to death, this is just the most horrible decision we've
had to come to.
I've got a slim hope of some type of "good home", but I also have to
be a man, you know?
It's hard to explain, but it's got something to do with being responsible.
Dropping him off at a shelter would destroy him, even if it would be
easier for us (at some level maybe).
A shitty situation.
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