Vent!

[Ladymom]

I am so upset!

It is in the 70's today in North Carolina so I decided to take Lady for a long walk in the neighborhood. An older lady was getting groceries out of her car and started talking to me. She told me she'd had Yorkies for 40 years so I started telling her how much I love Yorkies and that I'd planned to get one as my empty nest dog until Lady came into my life as a rescue.

I told her how old Lady was and how special she was to me. She then told me that her last Yorkies were littermates and lived to be twelve before she had to put them to sleep. She then explained to me that when she decided to move to the neighborhood to be close to her daughter, she had them both euthanized because she couldn't handle walking them on a leash! (We are in the city limits so it is a local ordinance).

I was speechless. I cherish every birthday my Lady has. I was in a terrible car accident a few years ago and had to spend months in the hospital, then months in a wheelchair so I wasn't able to walk Lady for a long time. It never occurred to me to have her put to sleep. I spent $1200 a month to have her and my two cats boarded, then taught her to use pee pads when I came home. I have also given Lady two insulin shots a day for going on eight years to keep her alive.

It gets even worse. This lady then tells me that she went into a pet store with her daughter a few months after she moved in and they had a "designer dog", a Yorkie and Chihuahua mix and she bought it! So now she's leash walking anyway and her two senior babies are dead.

[yorkieaddict]

Uggh! That is horrible. She is heartless and what vet would euthanize for that reason?

Some people do not deserve a dog. Sorry you and Lady had to go through that on your walk.

[Ladymom]

Her two Yorkies were in perfect health. She said her vet was upset with her. She said her Yorkies had never been leash walked before and it would be too difficult to train them at their age.

It wasn't a question about her being physically able to walk them. She was probably 50-60 and had no trouble unloading groceries from her car. She just could be bothered trying to train them to a leash.

[AshasMom]

What a heartless woman! My furbabies are just that, MY BABIES, and I would never consider doing something like that! I am so sorry that you had to run into that monster, and I admire you for all that you have been through.

[Kaley]

That is so rediculous. She couldn't have loved her first dogs too much if she would put them to sleep that easily...and for such a STUPID reason.

[MollysMum54]

that woman is a disgrace...and must have a vety cold heart if she could do that without even trying to rehome her babies first.

[chachi]

That is terrible The only way I would put one of mine down was if they had an illness and they were suffering

[jencar98]

I don't understand some people and their attitudes about their pets. It is really sad.

We had surrendered to OKYR two senior girls (13 & 14) one was on daily meds for seizures and had been since she was one year old. The excuse for rehoming them - "the kids had grown up, moved away and they had been their dogs", also, her parents were elderly, living in Chicago and she was having to travel to stay with them. Her husband worked all day and she didn't think it was fair to the yorkies. If we had not taken them, they would have been PTS.

Both girls were adopted together, unfortunately the older girl with seizures didn't live very long after she was rehomed......it broke my heart Why couldn't they just keep them? After that many years of loyally loving their owners, only to be given up like that....it still makes me cry.

As much as I didn't agree with their decision, I was and remain grateful they called us. It is so sad, your lady with the groceries didn't give her yorkies the same consideration.

[Ladymom]

I guess she couldn't be bothered to try to rehome them or surrender them to rescue.

She actually said that since they were still so active and spunky, she didn't think they'd "be happy" having to start walking on a leash. Like they'd be happier dead?

That's another reason why I hate pet shops. They cater to impulse buyers and don't ask any questions. Any reputable breeder or rescue group would have asked her about dogs she'd had in the past and refused to let her adopt a puppy.

[NewYorkieLover]

What a sad, horrible story.

Putting a dog down is such a difficult decision, even though it is (usually) made only when absolutely necessary, and even then, it's still difficult and painful. (I had my husband bring my Shih tzu to the vet when I just knew that would be the result...) To have two dogs put down because it's an incovenience....Grrrrr!!!!! And why couldn't she pee pad train them?

Now she has another dog and is walking her anyway...just awful.

[megansmomma]

Originally Posted by Ladymom

I am so upset!

It is in the 70's today in North Carolina so I decided to take Lady for a long walk in the neighborhood. An older lady was getting groceries out of her car and started talking to me. She told me she'd had Yorkies for 40 years so I started telling her how much I love Yorkies and that I'd planned to get one as my empty nest dog until Lady came into my life as a rescue.

I told her how old Lady was and how special she was to me. She then told me that her last Yorkies were littermates and lived to be twelve before she had to put them to sleep. She then explained to me that when she decided to move to the neighborhood to be close to her daughter, she had them both euthanized because she couldn't handle walking them on a leash! (We are in the city limits so it is a local ordinance).

I was speechless. I cherish every birthday my Lady has. I was in a terrible car accident a few years ago and had to spend months in the hospital, then months in a wheelchair so I wasn't able to walk Lady for a long time. It never occurred to me to have her put to sleep. I spent $1200 a month to have her and my two cats boarded, then taught her to use pee pads when I came home. I have also given Lady two insulin shots a day for going on eight years to keep her alive.

It gets even worse. This lady then tells me that she went into a pet store with her daughter a few months after she moved in and they had a "designer dog", a Yorkie and Chihuahua mix and she bought it! So now she's leash walking anyway and her two senior babies are dead.

There are so many stories just like this it makes me SICK! Love your baby and just know you are doing the very best for her. You are a perfect example of what a true pet owner should be.

[LilMissy]

This infuriates me! What did you even say in response to that? Geesh!

[megansmomma]

Originally Posted by Ladymom

Her two Yorkies were in perfect health. She said her vet was upset with her. She said her Yorkies had never been leash walked before and it would be too difficult to train them at their age.

It wasn't a question about her being physically able to walk them. She was probably 50-60 and had no trouble unloading groceries from her car. She just could be bothered trying to train them to a leash.

The really sick thing about this is that she TOLD YOU her sick story!

[bjh]

OMG, what a heartless woman. My Dixie is 12 years old and I cannot imagine doing something like that to her. Some people just don't deserve dogs.

[Ladymom]

Originally Posted by megansmomma

The really sick thing about this is that she TOLD YOU her sick story!

I know. I can't figure that out myself. I told her I had planned on getting a Yorkie, but then Lady came into my life at age four when her first owner abandoned her. This woman actually said, "How could anyone do that?"

Why she would tell me how she'd had her dogs PTS and think I'd understand is beyond me.