I’m sorry for your dilemma and sorry that some dopers could not resist the opportunity to lecture you. I know this is not how you wanted things to turn out. I do think that you might try some of the other suggestions here but if you really can’t find a home for your pup, take saje’s advice and then forgive yourself. And I hope things get better for you soon.
True that it might be difficult to find a reputable veterinarian who will euthanise an otherwise healthy dog. They’re another place to call, Ashtura. How aggressive is your dog, and how old? Has the dog ever actually bitten anyone or does it just jump up too much? House training probably won’t be a big problem because that can be taught. If the dog has previously bitten someone then yeah, it won’t get placed.
Is your dog neutered? How long do you have to try to work this out? If the dog isn’t neutered, that could make a difference to its behaviour, and neutering is usually cheap or sometimes free. If you have a month or so’s grace, you could get the dog neutered, at least.
But, DPRK, you’re wrong to judge Ashtura this harshly when they’re trying to find other ways of keeping the dog alive and safe. You don’t know their circumstances, and there are many that can lead to a pet owner needing to give up their dog. Often when people give their pets up they don’t really have a choice about giving the pet up at all but they might be able to choose when and where the pet goes to.
I appreciate that dogs are a lifetime responsibility, but part of that responsibility can be finding them a home that is suitable for them, if you’re no longer able to provide a suitable home.
And unlike kids, the state isn’t obliged to take care of dogs if you can’t take care of them yourself. It’s not the same situation.
Quote the post that appeared above the one of mine you quoted that advocated abandoning or shooting an unwanted dog. I’ll wait. Beck’s post was asking the OP NOT abandon in the country because an abandoned dog might be shot–which is reasonable as an abandoned dog in a country area will likely be a hazard to livestock.
Well you could have the dog put to sleep, or you could open the gate or door or whatever to your house the day you move.
First to say we’re very sentimental about dogs. We anthropomorphize them big time. My wife and I walked one of our ‘grand dogs’ today as we often do when our son can’t come home early enough from work for a comfortable wee-wee time for the dog; were at our daughter’s house at dawn, 3 hrs away, a couple of weeks ago to start searching the woods for another grand dog who was missing overnight (soon found safe at a nearby farm); our last dog died in our arms at the vet with us crying, etc.
But, without more background on OP’s real human life and constraints, I think some people may be going overboard a bit, like saying you can’t move if you took in a human aggressive non house-trained dog (how much effort was put into fixing this? but water under bridge now) and nobody else will take it. We haven’t gotten into size and type (aka ‘breed’) but for bigger dogs of some kinds the odds aren’t good even if the dog is human friendly (our late super dog was extremely human friendly but scheduled for the needle by the time we took her, just too scary looking to be chosen up to then in a shelter full of other ‘pit bulls’). If worse comes to worst you have to be sure the dog is euthanized properly, but some shelters can be trusted to do that, and I’m not sure I buy the idea a dog knows any more what’s happening in that case than at the vet. Ideally you’d do it at vet and be with the animal to the end, but again don’t know OP’s financial and other constraints.
Obviously it’s unacceptable to abandon a dog, in the countryside or anywhere else, but OP didn’t offer that as a plan nor anyone else that I read.
You local area likely has Facebook pet groups, join them, tell the tale.
Good Lord! More horrible advice. Have you not been reading the other responses in this thread? Letting the dog run loose to bite someone or kill someone else’s pet is the worst thing anyone could do. I hope you were not being serious. Life happens. You can’t always take your dog with you when you move. I have to reluctantly agree with those who believe the only possible thing you can do is have the dog put to sleep if he can’t be rehomed.
I’ll have you know I’ll be ‘experiencing’ my 20th anniversary very soon. So it could happen.
you also have time to house train the dog and get him less aggressive.
I just went through the process of trying to re-home a friend’s pet after she could no longer take care of him. He’s a senior dog (about 11 or 12) who, reportedly, had behavioral issues. The APL almost took him but when we said “behavioral issues” they said no way. We tried many shelters, many foster groups, no go. Several foster groups only took dogs directly from shelters. All the others were full up.
One woman I talked to, who has been working with fosters and shelters for over 20 years, straight up told me we’d probably be best off putting him down, since he is older and has behavioral issues. She said that people have the idea that shelters are full of money, volunteers and empty cages but that couldn’t be further from the truth. This isn’t a cold woman or a dog hater - she just knows the reality of shelters and dog surrender.
There’s a happy ending to the story, as the dog went to my aunt and he’s doing REALLY well there. He doesn’t even have the same behavioral issues as he showed at my friend’s house. It was really a one-in-a-million chance that I stumbled on this match.
I have a lot of empathy for you Ashtura. Three of us trying to place my friend’s dog was stressful and nearly fruitless. I can’t imagine trying to place your own pup.
I say post your story on Craigslist or Facebook. If you’re on FB and post, make it public. People will share. My post got a lot of traction and I actually had more people interested in the dog than just my aunt! You never know who is out there just looking for that perfect pet project.
Since the OP is looking for advice, let’s move this to IMHO.
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Maybe there is a misunderstanding here, if so I must apologize. Obviously, no one (well, almost no one) mentioned abandoning a pet as anything but a supreme delinquency that gives me nightmares just thinking about it. Yet, those dogs she found came from somewhere (unless every single one just happened to wander off by itself), so obviously some gutless villain did it. Next, shooting an abandoned dog on sight is pretty cold, but I can imagine for example some farmer doing that without necessarily being depraved. Well, almost imagine it; a strange dog attacking livestock is one thing, but if it’s a lost, friendly pet it would first occur to me that a scan for an identity microchip is in order.
That much was clear from her post, but if it also went without saying that no one would shoot their own dog (as opposed to some random dog 
) then I am relieved to hear it, as it reinforces the esteem I have for rural folk, and in that case it was my wild imagination which introduced the notion into this conversation, for which I again apologise.
Okay, I see the disconnect–we good.
This.
Please tell me this was a joke.
Another vote for euthanize. I’m so sorry, but it really is the kindest thing.
I feel for you, Ashtura. I have a dog that would be difficult to rehome as well. I’m hoping you will get a miracle, or barring that, euthanize with love.
If the OP does this, I say to be very careful about who you hand the dog over to. Dog fighting rings frequently take unwanted pets off CL and FB and that’s a fate much, much worse than euthanasia in your loving arms.