This is an easy rehome. Not.

[Sweet72947]

In need of a good home

I have a 2 1/2 year old pitbull,I have not had him since birth. He came to me with severe separation anxiety. He really is a sweet dog. He loves to play, run, wrestle and cuddle. However, he is not good with other animals or kids. He is great with adults who know how to assert themselves. He does share his home with one dog, it is the only dog that I have seen him get along with until recently. He is extremely jealous when he sees someone other than himself getting attention. He needs a home where it is a mature atmosphere without kids. He needs space to run where he cannot come across any other animals. He also HATES being alone. He does not even like if I turn a corner and am out of site. He runs around frantically until he finds me. Also, he hates dog crates, he will cause himself bodily harm to escape. Despite all of these complications, he is a sweet dog and extremely loyal. He frequently does "perimeter checks" of our home and attempts to intimidate anything out of place, whether it be a piece of furniture out of place or a Santa Claus statue. LOL. He sleeps through the night beside my bed. He is house trained, however, he has accidents every now and then. I really do love this dog, I hope someone out there is willing to take him in and love him as much as I do. It would be best if he would stay in the Damascus area because I would like to visit him and play with him! Please get back to me if you are interested, I'm sure you have a lot of questions!!

I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry. Its hard enough finding homes for normal pit bulls with no issues. Just wow.

 

[corgipower]

:wall:

 

[Amanda885]

aw, yikes..that's tough

 

[Dogs6]

CP said it best :wall:

 

[Romy]

wow....so they want someone else to responsibility for their disaster, so they can still go play with him? :wall:

 

[Thracian]

Oh boy. That will be a tough one to rehome.

 

[JPuckett1989]

wow....so they want someone else to responsibility for their disaster, so they can still go play with him? :wall:

Thats exactly what I got.

"hey we got this pitbull,we don't know how to train him so do you want him? I'll just come by and play with him,mkay?"

 

[BostonBanker]

That poor dog sounds like he lives in a state of constant anxiety. It makes me very sad for him.

 

[Criosphynx]

I'll take him...bet hes normal within six months.

I hate hate hate the "i want to visit him" crap I see in these ads...sorry, Iam doing YOU a favor and taking the problem YOU created off your hands. Go away and don't get any more dogs. Please.

 

[KenyiGirl]

I would never adopt a dog from someone who wanted to see them all the time, get regular updates, or come by my house to play with them. If I adopt a dog, its going to be MY dog, not your dog anymore.

 

[Lolas Dad]

When I adopted Lola I volunteered that if the previous owner wanted to see her I would bring her their occasionally. This was done on my part to show the previous owner that Lola is in good hands and so that she could groom Lola since she is a groomer and did really nice work. However if someone made the requirement that they would want to stop by and play with her then I probably would not have allowed that.

Taking Lola to her previous groomer is one thing. Playing with her would have been something else. The person in this case that wants to be able to play with the dog can undo all the training that a good owner would put into this dog.

 

[Juicy]

When I rehomed a dog my sister got from a kill-shelter, I asked the owner to keep me up-to-date with the dog, to make sure the dog was in good hands...I don't see whats wrong with wanting to see how your dog is doing and not in a poor condition?

 

[tessa_s212]

I'm getting regular updates from Dana about Cocoa. I hope and expect Fudge's new mommy to give us photos and updates. And when I had Marq, I gave his breeder regular updates. And while his breeder certainly doesn't owe me any updates or photos, she's been sending me simple updates, I think because she knows how torn up I was to lose him, but still did the right thing. There is absolutely nothing wrong about hoping for occasional updates. I know if I ever adopted a dog from someone that was really, really heartbroken to let their dog go, but knew it was best, I would give them updates. I also knew that if Fudge could have been rehomed to someone locally, we would have offered to groom him for free just so we could see him often.

That said, the way this person goes about requesting play dates is... odd. Who knows, this person could have tried to save the dog when it ALREADY had the pre-existing problems, and realized it was over their head. Not everyone is a doggy genius and can fix neurotic dogs. It might be a far shot, but should she not even try and just put the dog to sleep? I know I'd at least give the dog a chance for someone to rescue him. Yes, a very, very, very hard rehome, but sometimes miracles do happen. Sometimes when there is no hope, a really incredible, intelligent, experienced, compassionate person just shows up to save the day. If after searching and there was no home, then would I do the only responsible thing left to do - humanely euthanize the dog in my own arms.

 

[Romy]

Honestly, if it was my dog I'd have the vet make a house call and let him go in my arms. If he's really as screwed up as the ad makes him out to be, just living in human society constantly has him on the brink of insanity at any given moment. The only way he'd be able have a normal life, as described, would be to heavily sedate him for life or insulate him from all outside contact with a home bound person. Neither are very good lifestyles.

Not to mention the danger of him accidentally being put in a situation where he's over threshold and seriously injuring/maiming a child or someone. With the reputation his breed is struggling with, that's not something I'd want to risk so that he could live a subpar lifestyle.

I think as far as visiting or wanting updates, whatever that's fine. The ad just had this tone of "gee, this is a really big problem so I wanna pawn it off on someone else but still be able to reap the benefits of having this dog around, without the hard parts." That's what bothered me anyway.

 

[KenyiGirl]

There's nothing wrong with hoping for updates. I've updated Molly's previous owners about how she's doing, and sent them pictures, even though they never asked for them. But I think its kinda mean for a previous owner to want to come play with the dog, and then the dog gets all excited, and then the previous owner just leaves. I don't know, it just seems like it would be confusing for the dog

 

[Mjjean]

I don't see anything wrong with requesting updates, but I am also a private person. Unless I really liked and felt comfortable around a dog I adopteds previous owner, I would limit the updates to emails and photo's. An occasional email and picture to let the previous owner know the dog is in good hands is one thing, invading my home and life is another.

As to this dog, I have to agree with Romy. This is a mentally unstable dog who seems to be miserable dealing with everyday life. It also sounds like this dog is the kind that is an attack waiting to happen because of his high level of fear and anxiety. There are too many people who think the dog will magically be ok with them in their family and they find out the hard way this is not the case. Rehoming a potentially dangeroud dog is a pretty dicy thing unless one is lucky enough to find space in a rehab rescue/sanctuary.

Personally, I think there are too many stable dogs out there looking for homes to keep an unstable dog, expecially of a powerful breed, alive and in a constant state of fear and anxiety. What kind of life is that?