Once again, I for one am fairly sure that you loved your dog and that the op is an ass. But. As far as the off-hand thought about getting another dog, FGE, do you really think that your family has the resources to take on that responsibility, including the possibility of this sort of crisis situation again, but even just normal costs and responsibilities, right now or in any foreseeable future? Please. Don’t even think about it.
And you’re being an idiot. An idiot who obviously does not have kids or understand what it means to take care of them.
He didn’t even have carseats for his kids. If he had made the decision to put the kids in the car without carseats after lugging a gigantic seizing dog out into the car and gotten into a car accident, those kids could have been seriously injured or even killed. Then we’d all be here taking him to task for not caring about his kids more than the dog.
I don’t have friends that would be able to come over here on a moments notice to help me transport a dog and provide childcare, and there are no ‘van taxis’ with carseats where I live. And I can tell you that I don’t care what’s happening to my Shih-Tzu, I would not risk my kids’ lives by transporting them unsafely. And I love that dog to the point where I chose to retrain and gate her off rather than give her away when she was behaving aggressively towards my child. I was also taken to task for that on this board. :rolleyes:
Fine, very well. But then, he and his wife obviously do NOT have the means to take care of a dog. So why are they all, “oh, let’s get another dog!”
No, I don’t think so.
OOOOOOOoooooorrrrRRRRRRRR they could learn from this debacle and prepare better for the next dog.
No one is always perfect, and no logical person could actually deduce that he didn’t care or didn’t try. They just didn’t foresee every emergency. That’s sad, but it doesn’t make him an asshole.
He let a sick dog outside without a leash or fence, unattended. That’s not sad, that’s retarded.
He’s acknowledged that it was a miscalculation on his part. I can see myself making a miscalculation along those lines after days on constantly dealing with the mental aftereffects of the seizures, as well as the constant poop and pee and constant worry about what’s going to be necessary next. Especially if I had been led to believe that the animal was mostly back to it’s normal self.
Again, you’ve never made a mistake while under stress? Glad to hear you’re perfect.
And WHEN said dog was caught up in the invisible fence*, instead of physically going and pushing the dog out of the way, he went inside to turn it off. :rolleyes:
*I’m assuming the dog’s seizures would have prevented him from moving away from the current?
Oh, you know exactly the layout of his yard and house then? So you know for a fact that it would have been faster to run to the other side of the yard and push him rather than go inside and turn it off?
Really?
I’ve never made a mistake that could possibly end my dog’s life while under stress.
Why do you keep saying this as if one happened right after the other? The seizures were on Monday, he didn’t even go outside for the first time afterwards until Thursday afternoon.
We’d already spent hundreds of dollars on this dog, and we ran into some recent financial difficulty that was unexpected. We would have had to wait until a Friday payday to euthanize the dog, if it had come to that and IF the vet demanded payment right away. She didn’t and we didn’t.
As for the “getting another dog” thing, it was the animal control people that mentioned it to me first, essentially telling me that “if you do end up having to put this poor guy down, and you like Boxers, for some reason we have a lot of them at the shelter right now if you wanted another one”.
So I mentioned it in passing more than “OK, fuck this dog, who wants another one?” like Riley was worthless chattel or something.
And that doesn’t exactly scream “responsible person” to me, if you see what I mean. If you’re at home alone in an isolated area with two little kids with nobody to help you in the case of an emergency–make sure you have a way to get the little fellers to the doctor/hospital if something happens. There are a bajillion things that can happen to kids that age that aren’t ambulance-worthy, but really don’t need to wait all bleeding day to get dealt with either. I got no sympathy.
I only hope that poor Riley had the kind of seizures my mom has, where she’s totally unaware of anything that’s happening, and not the kind I used to have where I was totally aware of what my body was doing and unable to do anything about it.
Leaving the ENTIRE issue of the dog aside, FGIE, I suggest that you never allow yourself to be in the position of having physical custody of your kids while NOT having the vehicle with the child seats in it. I am not a parent, but I think that’s a really bad idea for a variety of reasons. I’m sorry about Riley, and hope he makes it home, or to someone who can help him.
On any other day, my wife wouldn’t have taken the van for that very reason. The only reason she took it on that particular day was because my wife’s company’s local delivery van had broken down two days prior and wasn’t fixed yet and they had asked her if she could bring it so she could make a local delivery.
For my sons, if there was a genuine medical emergency, I can always call an ambulance. Can’t do that for a dog. And I don’t exactly live in an isolated area, but it isn’t big city-ish either.
She forgot to leave me the car seats, but even if she had, and I could have safely transported them in my little car, there was still the issue of getting the dog into the car, as well as the fact that there isn’t enough room for him in my car if the kids are in the back seats because there is no trunk!
Here’s a picture of the trunk of a car like mine. No way Riley would have fit in there.
LO friggin L!
Hey, it was just another miscalculation, guys! And did I mention the unexpected expenses? We sure do plan on doing better soon as payday comes and we can spring for a replacement pup. And if we happen to lose that one, we’ll keep going until we get it right!
Fucking idiot.
Nobody ever said that, asshole. It was mentioned in passing, but we’re in no hurry to run out and get another dog. Read the thread first.
Thanks for piling on like the d-bag I know I can count on you to be!
Compassionless!
Read the whole thread. Sounds like nothing bad has ever happened in your life that you don’t have a ready excuse for.
I have no compassion for morons. Their spawn and their pets, however . . .
I have openly said time and again that I made a couple bad judgement calls. It happens to us because we are humans and inherently imperfect.
You don’t think I feel terrible about what has happened? You don’t think that I don’t bear a huge burden of guilt for this? Guilt that I’ll probably carry around for the rest of my life?
I loved that dog, you motherfucker, how dare you come in here all a’frothy and ready to pile on me and pass your internet judgement upon me like I’m somehow worthless or beneath you because I made a mistake!
Fuck off, seriously.
Riley was what, a year old boxer? So weighed like, 60-70 lbs? I don’t see why that dog wouldn’t fit in that trunk, honestly.
Then again, I’ve seen someone transporting his great dane in an early 90s Escort.
I’ve taken our dane in a BMW Z3 across town. Sure, it wasn’t ideal, but he had to go to the vet in a hurry.