Oh my god she was beautiful. So sorry for your loss, OP. It always kills me to hear of a pet passing.here's a picture of when she was a young one https://i.imgur.com/Xo1Kkze.jpg
Oh my god she was beautiful. So sorry for your loss, OP. It always kills me to hear of a pet passing.here's a picture of when she was a young one https://i.imgur.com/Xo1Kkze.jpg
She was attacked by an unleashed dog (this was the second time this happened) during a walk a while back. It was bad for my dog, at the same time, the owner of the other dog was hitting my dog trying to protect his. Ever since then, she trusted no other person or animal. Essentially became aggressive and a liability. Especially to children.
She's was such a cutie. Sorry, dude :(here's a picture of when she was a young one https://i.imgur.com/Xo1Kkze.jpg
Yes. Her breed was a Boerboel. Look it up if you need to.
But this was the main reason I made the decision to put her down. She turned on family members she grew up with.
Did you explore other options or not? The organization I volunteer for explicitly expects this of any potential owner.
that's a shitty situation to go through. I'm sorry for you and your dog for other people's carelessness.She was attacked by an unleashed dog (this was the second time this happened) during a walk a while back. It was bad for my dog, at the same time, the owner of the other dog was hitting my dog trying to protect his. Ever since then, she trusted no other person or animal. Essentially became aggressive and a liability. Especially to children.
Did you explore other options or not? The organization I volunteer for explicitly expects this of any potential owner.
She was attacked by an unleashed dog (this was the second time this happened) during a walk a while back. It was bad for my dog, at the same time, the owner of the other dog was hitting my dog trying to protect his. Ever since then, she trusted no other person or animal. Essentially became aggressive and a liability. Especially to children.
You should shut up nowDid you explore other options or not? The organization I volunteer for explicitly expects this of any potential owner.
Couldn't have said it better myself. Honestly, I'm a "tough guy" and I couldn't believe that I cried while I saw her get put down. Holy smokes it's freaking difficult.Sorry about that and it's an awfil
That particular breed is one of the strongest and most powerful breeds in the world and extremely challenging to house and train even without the specific behavioral issues the poster described and is potentially not even rehabilitation-viable. It's territorial and bred to guard property against large African predators. It's not just an abused shelter dog or badly trained pit bull but a really significant legal and safety liability. It's a gigantic breed that could easily kill a child or adult if it were spooked or felt threatened or challenged.
I doubt there are many organizations willing to take her on. And the poster already sounds responsible and engaged in the dog's welfare and of those around it. If it's turning on family members then it may well be beyond help. It's possible a dedicated individual could do it but even the breeding organization has strict rules on how to train and categorize them.
This is uncalled for. Things happen in life and none of us were there it's an unfortunate incident but not deserving of this kind of vitriol.I'm so fucking sorry. I hope the guy who ruined your friend's trust lives out the rest of his days in pain and loneliness. What a fucking scumbag.
Or, show compassion to someone who just lost their best friend?
She was attacked by an unleashed dog (this was the second time this happened) during a walk a while back. It was bad for my dog, at the same time, the owner of the other dog was hitting my dog trying to protect his. Ever since then, she trusted no other person or animal. Essentially became aggressive and a liability. Especially to children.
No, there are plenty of rescues that would have taken the dog and either rehabilitated it for a new home or fostered it forever. Places like Best Friends in Utah, who famously took all the Michael Vick dogs and rehabilitated them.
OP made the wrong decision, period.
No, there are plenty of rescues that would have taken the dog and either rehabilitated it for a new home or fostered it forever. Places like Best Friends in Utah, who famously took all the Michael Vick dogs and rehabilitated them. It's understandable that OP was unable to be the one to rehabilitate the dog or live with its issues, but there are plenty of others who would have been happy to.
OP made the wrong decision, period.
Considering you have zero, and I mean absolutely zero clue what avenues OP explored before making the final decision you have no standing to make a claim that a wrong decision was made.
OP knew his dog better than someone hopping in a thread chilling in front of a screen casting judgement based on no facts.
No, the OP made the right decision for this enormous, territorial breed of dog and it broke his heart. This isn't a celebrity dog intervention reality show.
Pwnz replies are just as baffling as the guy who made the Microsoft joke, but it's not my business.
No, there are plenty of rescues that would have taken the dog and either rehabilitated it for a new home or fostered it forever. Places like Best Friends in Utah, who famously took all the Michael Vick dogs and rehabilitated them. It's understandable that OP was unable to be the one to rehabilitate the dog or live with its issues, but there are plenty of others who would have been happy to.
OP made the wrong decision, period.
Well it sounds super harsh, but he didn't "lose" his best friend, he chose to kill his best friend.
Unless he contacted every rescue and no one would take him, something he has not mentioned trying, I feel comfortable in my judgement based on the facts that OP has presented.
Places like Best Friends and similar are for everyone, not for celebrities. They take abused and mistrustful/aggressive dogs ALL. THE. TIME.
Well it sounds super harsh, but he didn't "lose" his best friend, he chose to kill his best friend.
No, there are plenty of rescues that would have taken the dog and either rehabilitated it for a new home or fostered it forever. Places like Best Friends in Utah, who famously took all the Michael Vick dogs and rehabilitated them. It's understandable that OP was unable to be the one to rehabilitate the dog or live with its issues, but there are plenty of others who would have been happy to.
OP made the wrong decision, period.
Well it sounds super harsh, but he didn't "lose" his best friend, he chose to kill his best friend.
Unless he contacted every rescue and no one would take him, something he has not mentioned trying, I feel comfortable in my judgement based on the facts that OP has presented.
No, the OP made the right decision for this enormous, territorial breed of dog and it broke his heart. This isn't a celebrity dog intervention reality show.
What is your problem? This was not a decision taken lightly, and putting a dog to sleep is not murder.
Maybe there are some cases where it's not justified, I'm not an expert. But this certainly doesn't sound like one of them.
I said the same but apparently a dogs life isn't worth asking more questions aboutUnless he contacted every rescue and no one would take him, something he has not mentioned trying, I feel comfortable in my judgement based on the facts that OP has presented.
Places like Best Friends and similar are for everyone, not for celebrities. They take abused and mistrustful/aggressive dogs ALL. THE. TIME.
Asking if all avenues to preserve the dogs life were taken shouldn't be viewed as showing their assSomebody always has to come in these kintd of threads and show their ass
Putting a healthy dog to sleep is murder, wtf. He wasn't saving it from a painful terminal disease. He himself said it became a "liability", that's not how I would refer to a "best friend" whose personality changed after trauma.
Whatever. I feel sorry his dog was traumatized, and then killed by his owner, that's where my compassion goes in this story. See ya.
She was attacked by an unleashed dog (this was the second time this happened) during a walk a while back. It was bad for my dog, at the same time, the owner of the other dog was hitting my dog trying to protect his. Ever since then, she trusted no other person or animal. Essentially became aggressive and a liability. Especially to children.
I said the same but apparently a dogs life isn't worth asking more questions about
Putting a healthy dog to sleep is murder, wtf. He wasn't saving it from a painful terminal disease. He himself said it became a "liability", that's not how I would refer to a "best friend" whose personality changed after trauma.
It's showing one's ass when they make blanket statements and put down the OPwithout asking one question.Asking if all avenues to preserve the dogs life were taken shouldn't be viewed as showing their ass
On a forum that views animals like this one I certainly won't. The frustration with me and the other user is that we have seen so many dogs killed without recourse. I'll try and hope that the OP looked into those options but it's just so common for people not to.
Putting a healthy dog to sleep is murder, wtf. He wasn't saving it from a painful terminal disease. He himself said it became a "liability", that's not how I would refer to a "best friend" whose personality changed after trauma.
Whatever. I feel sorry his dog was traumatized, and then killed by his owner, that's where my compassion goes in this story. See ya.
On a forum that views animals like this one I certainly won't. The frustration with me and the other user is that we have seen so many dogs killed without recourse. I'll try and hope that the OP looked into those options but it's just so common for people not to.
I don't know if you're a dog owner yourself. Or maybe you put a dog's life over a humans. It may sound a little harsh to my dog by me saying that, but you wanna talk about pitbulls being dangerous, then you certainly don't know about my dog. Her breed is a Boerboel. She was well on her way to becoming bigger than a lot of humans. Especially anyone you can call a child/children. After she got attacked, she never came back from it and developed behavioral issues. We are talking about a dog that can do a lot more damage than any pitbull. Anyway, I know for a fact I made the right decision.Putting a healthy dog to sleep is murder, wtf. He wasn't saving it from a painful terminal disease. He himself said it became a "liability", that's not how I would refer to a "best friend" whose personality changed after trauma.
Whatever. I feel sorry his dog was traumatized, and then killed by his owner, that's where my compassion goes in this story. See ya.
. You should probably just bow out of the thread and take some time to cool off.