Because all it takes is a phone call, and that dog’s all up in your shit!
Should your parents have the right to do this?
They can bring over all the drug sniffing dogs they want, because I don’t have a stash. I wouldn’t want a dog in my room, though, it would scare my cat.
What he said, minus the cat
I’m a girl. But you know, I don’t have a clue what gender you are, so it’s ok.
Double consonants preceeding double vowels but no cat as a companion? Gotta be male.
Well, your parents don’t have the right to bring a dog over to your house without your consent, drug-sniffing or otherwise. I’d recommend simply not opening the front door to admit them into your house.
Of course, parents have every right in the world to bring such a dog into their own home.
I’d be pretty open to them searching me, since I would have no choice, but pretty pissed they wouldn’t trust me, respect me, or be treating me like an adult.
Even though I give my parents no reason not to trust me - I treat them as adults, respect them, and don’t lie - they do regardless. They will assume first and maybe ask questions later, if feeling the need to be humored. Although deplorable to me, I understand that as my legal guardian I have no choice but to accept it. Plus, they are commendable parents in other regards, seeing as to how I have not starved to death or been ruthlessly tortured, but that is neither here nor there.
I am living in their house, signed over in their name - my parents have every right in the world to keep their house clean of illegal substances, whether you believe the drug of choice should be legalized or not. The point is, I would be putting them at an albiet low risk: I shouldn’t be keeping anything in their house that may jeopradize their lifes in anyway.
They should respect me, of course, but not trusting a teenager is much more understandable then putting someone at risk, especially if you put them at risk then complain about it.
I don’t do anything.
I would be angry that my mother didn’t trust me, even going to far as to bring dogs to sniff for illicit drugs.
I’m not a girl. and i don’t have a cat. or drugs… so there!
Their house and their money.
I don’t think they would trust a dog on “residue” alone. There would have to be concrete evidence, unless my parents were unusually paranoid at the time.
But if this company does find illegal drugs, don’t they have to report it to the police or else it’s aiding a felony? In that case, wouldn’t it be more cost effective to have the police bring over a dog for free?
Besides, I bet that dog couldn't find my stash once it's in a condom in my colon.
Parents using a sniffer dog to get at their kid’s stash is taking Bogarting to a new level. They should find their own source.
I wouldn’t go back to live with my parents if you paid me, but when I did…it depends.
I didn’t do anything illegal in HS (still don’t, come ot think of it), and I was always pretty honest and clean with them on everything. So yes, I would’ve been upset if they had brought in a dog to sniff over my room.
However, if I’d been all suspicious and weird and would never talk to them (OK, moreso than simply “being a teenager” warrants :rolleyes: ) about stuff like that, I guess I’d have been asking for it.
I would have been upset in any case, but reasonable parents will only do it if something majorly sets off their bullshit radar and they really need to straighten out their kids. I’m not a parent, but I don’t think I’d hire dogs unless I was pretty sure they’d find something.
Their house, their rules. If I wanted to smoke weed, I wouldn’t disrespect my parents by doing it in their house.
Never an issue for me, nor for other reasons for my brother (who was into everything this side of crack). Hell, my parents “cleaned his room” regularly. He just learned to deal when he was living in their house, and soon enough wasn’t anymore.
I think the best use, if a parent were to consider it, would be to police their child after there has already been hard evidence of unacceptable drug use. To bring them in short of that could irrepairably damage their relationship with their child.
If you have a stash, and your parents find it via a drug-sniffing dog, then you have no legitimate complaint. You may think they have no reason to trust you, but the fact that you have a stash in your room means they DO have a reason.
If you don’t have a stash, but have given your parents other reasons not to trust, then you have little legitimate complaint.
If you have a history of honesty, and have never taken illicit substances or given your parents any reason not to trust you, then the parents are at fault. Trade them in.
Okay, I’ve got some special concerns. As I’ve mentioned a few times on the board, I have some mental health issues - I suffer from depression and have tried to isolate in the past. Considering that my parents do help me out financially, while I wouldn’t enjoy such a visit, I can’t say that it’s unwarranted, if they think I’m going off the deep end.
That is a special case, of course, but it is still my answer.
I think he really said it all there. I’ve really got no choice if they search my room, it’s really their room. I don’t do drugs anyway. I would be pretty pissed that they didn’t trust me and they had to resort to having a dog sniff the house and my clothes though.
Huh, guess I’m in the minority here… That would seriously be the end of my relationship with my parents until they were able to have a normal adult relationship with me. Not going to get into specifics about my own personal life, but something somewhat simliar happened to me (not related to drugs). Eventually, after some work on both sides, things worked out.
I would understand if it was heroin or meth or something like that, so IMHO the measuring tape shrinks and grows with the pair of pants.
The OP asked for the debate to stay away from legalization of specific drugs, so I will, but really, you, random doper, lurker, or bored and lost internet junkie, raise your hand if you’ve ever smoked pot (a drug I used to do somewhat heavily but now only do occasionally due to an increasing boredom with it [and dispite what my many run on sentences may imply ;), I have not and will not move on to stronger drugs]). Now, of those that did raise their hands, are you still here to post today? Honestly, do you think it’d be really benificial to bring in Rex? Or would it scar the relationship between the adolecent and parents? I don’t care whether or not its legal, just asking your opinion on whether marijuana is really harmful enough to elicit such an invasive and psychologically shocking search?