how many makes me the crazy dog lady

i had an email from a woman today, shes a friend of a friend, she has a 10 week old male crested and cant keep him, she just found out shes terminal with cancer, has about 3 months left and is VERY sick...she has no family...i feel TERRIBLE for her, simply put...

anywho, 10 almost 11 week old hairy hairless crested boy she got before diagnosis (2 weeks ago, i mean wow how quick!) she got him to show after her show pp died last year...

anywho...shes not realy Close, but close enough i would leave one morning and should be home the next evening...

shes asked me to take him, knwoing i know the breed...

but i have 2 chis, and my crestie, and while i want another crestie...i still live with 2 other dogs too...6 dogs in the house? time wise i can handle it...he like ruby would come to daycare once all shots are complete...but my parents would kill me (my apts still not finnished) my bf would hate me (he doesnt realy like dogs, let alone 4 of lol) and well...yeah...

but hes sooo cute.
i keep telling myself, i can foster him and find him a good home...
but i dont think id be able to give him away after that...

HELP, what do i do?!

do i fight my want for the sane "i have enough and everyone would kill me"
or do i just give in and tell everyone "its only temporary" and try to find him a new home...

or do i simply say that and keep him anyway?!

GAH!

this sooo wouldnt be a question if i had my own house!
anyone want to sell me a cheap little house in ct?! fixeruppers fine as long as theres 2 beds and a garden!

where is the puppy located?

Wouldn't his breeder be able to take him back? If he is a show prospect, methinks there would be that stipulation in the contract somewhere.

On the other hand, he is a Crestie, how much room can he take up?

3 is more dogs then i want...sighs. If mary wasn't as old as she is i wouldn't be doing this at all. THe bed is not comfortable, and riding around with 3 truly makes me feel touched in the head.

How about finding him a new home? It could be temporary and he would be helped and no one would get too upset with you.

Easier said, than done.. this I know. Good luck.

You're only as crazy as you wanna be! LOL--could a rescue group help? I'm sure you could foster/ find him a good home.

Im thinking that first off she should check with her breeder because for a show dog, there's bound to be something stating in the contract that she must return him if she cant keep him.

If there isn't and you're able to take him then I'd recommend fostering him until you can find him a home. I'd foster through a breed rescue if possible. But hey, who knows... he may end up making a permanent little snuggle spot on your heart and you wont be able to part with him.

she said when she picked the little guy up the breeder said she was "getting out of the buisness" and he was one of the last to go...
she said she didnt get a great feeling off this woman but fell in love with him and she was selling him for a whipping $300 with full akc, alarm bells rung but after checking out the papers, he is akc from some AWSOME crestie lines, both mother and father ofa ecelents ect and his father even has ALL his teeth at 4 yrs old (retention is a big issue with cresties and most satrt loosing teeth around 2 yrs old, something that is NOT faulted in the ring...
his mother champed, his grandfather and grandmother too, his father got close but the breeder stopped showing for whatever reason...

(not that id be breeding him but if i took him it might be fun to wiz around the ring a few times )

since being diagnosed shes tried calling the breeder a few times daily, dropped emails, but the most reacent email bounced and the last time she called the number was disconected...
so shes started looking for anothr softie...

and cresties can be hard, there one of those love em hate em kinda breeds...

oh, shes in michigan, the breeder WAS also located in michigan, it would be a LONG trip to get to me, (i dont think i could afford to have him flown at this point without some serious fundraising)...

there is crestcare, but cresties can be tough...
im seriously thinking about fostering him temporarily while looking for a good home for him...
my BIG worry is im such a softie that im not sure i could just hand him over...

my other thing is Mum is threatening to keep vixie and dodger when i move out, meaning poor ruby would be alone...but she is always saying that one minute than talking about how quiet itll be without them the next...and its still 6 dogs in one house up untill i move out...

but at the same time, all 3 of my dogs currently = 18lbs...whats another 3lbs?! gah!

you guys are SUPPOSED to tell me how crazy i am and to not do it

ur on a dog board what do you tink your going to get .

I say foster then keep him LOL.

I say keep him lol.

Or, you know, I could take him

hmmm well I have 7 dogs, and while I am crazy.. I was crazy back when we only had 1, so it has nothing to do with the dogs.

It sounds like you want him. I agree that if your family agrees its temporary while you look for a home. If everyone falls in love with him, while he is there...well then its all good right?

At this moment in time, I have, living with me, roughly 235-250 pounds of dogs living with me. A Fila, a GSD/wolf and a Pittie.

And you think adding one more 3 lb Crestie is going to make you the crazy dog lady?

I say take him in saying to everyone temp. And if you happen to keep him, the people in your life will have been used to him by then and might get over it haha. If not then i'm sure you could find him a wonderful home. Just do whatever your heart and gut are telling you to do.

i emailed her telling her its a possibility, i HAVE to talk it over with the family first, she wants to keep him another 2 weeks (so he can have his rabies and final set of shots before being moved) so i have 2 weeks to convince everyone and get the apt finnished...

shes going to look into transportation options for me as im not sure i can drive that far...its either goign to be flight or ground, grounds looking more expnsive than flight...but itll cost me about as much in gas as the flight so...we'll have to see what happens...

and im sure when my parents kick me out, and my bf dumps me for getting yet another pet, im sure someone on the board will offer me and my 4 little dogs a couch untill i find a place of my own...right?!

good news...kinda.

her neighbor (a wonderfull middle aged gay man whos HIGHLY allergic to dogs but always loved them) has offered to take him.

she didnt think he would due to the fact he is terribly allergic to dogs and because of which has never had one before, but over the past few days shes been realy sick and hes been comming over (out of pure nicness) and taking little Jak out for walks, hes been doing the runs to the petstore for her for food for him, and been helping her with bathing, hes also been playing with him out in the yard hes even watched him overnight a few times
hes had no problem with having jak because cresties are TRULY hypoalergenic (think people skin lol)

well today he ASKED her...with tears in his eyes if...when the time came...he could have Jak, she called me and i said OF COURSE let him take the pup!

so over the next 2 weeks shes going to teach him the ins and outs of skin and teeth care for Jak, and then once she knows that they will be fine shes going to sign him over

in one way im kinda dissapointed cause i REALY want a hairless, but the timing is just not right

on the other hand, im SOOOO happy for the pair...the human whos grown fond of Jak finally gets to have a dog of his own...and Jak gets to live with someone he already knows and will spoil him rotten!
(and he gets to be an only child )

Thats great Kudos to the neighbor!

So happy he is going to a home with someone who knows him already and will love him.

A side note here...if your BF doesn't like dogs...maybe you should consider getting one who does? I mean, that kind of outlook rarely changes and if the dogs are an important part of your life and your not willing to place them to make him happy...why go any further???
If your responsible for the dogs, your able to give them the care that they need, your keeping up with the work involved in having them...I personally don't understand why it would be any concern to the BF if you get another one...but hey...that's just mho

Yay for Jak having a home he already knows!