[JeanieK]

Originally Posted by DaniMarie

I have a "friend" who I've known for about a year.

When we first met, I was sure she loved animals, as she had two dogs. A chihuahua and a Pomeranian. Well, mysteriously for some reason or another, about a month later, there was only the Pom and suddenly she had another Pom.

Okay...whatever...


So then she had yet ANOTHER new Pom, meanning she got rid of a THIRD dog for whatever reason. It was always an excuse of "the dog doesn't like my husband", "the dog won't house train", "the dog doesn't get along with my other dog".

There's three dogs that I know of that she's gone through in the past nine months.

She always stuck to her original dog, the Pom she claimed was the love of her life. Well upon her very first heat at seven months, her Pom girl got pregnant and a couple of months ago delivered a litter of four puppies. This girl decided to keep two of them.

I won't even get into how irresponsible I think it was to allow her dog to breed, but just yesterday she wrote a status update on facebook about how her husband is making her get rid of her Pom (the original one who had the puppies) because the dog bit her.

The dog just had a litter of puppies, her hormones aren't back to normal, she clearly hasn't been cared for the way she should have been, and who here can honestly say your dog hasn't at one point bit you? It happens, and I think that dog probably had every reason to.

So I feel like she made an immature dog have puppies just so she could keep the puppies and now she's shipping off the dog.

The kicker of all of this, is she's been trying to get pregnant with a child for almost a year. I made a comment something to the effect of "What are you going to do when you have a child that acts up? Ship them off too?" I also urged her to get the dog medical attention since she had just been through so much.

Was I out of line? I've wanted so many times in the past to comment on her behavior with her pets, but this was too much, she's had this dog since she was 7 weeks old and now is shipping her off because of one little incident. This girl is clearly not fit to be a parent to anything. She specifically made a snarky comment back about how a child wouldn't bite her and she can't afford to handle all of the problems the dog may be having....yet she's keeping TWO puppies?!?!

This situation has infuriated me...and I really don't feel like I have anyone I can talk to about it. It may not affect me personally, but watching animal after animal pass through her home, and now her getting rid of her "main" dog...........

My cats all have issues. One has an anxiety issue which causes her to mark in inappropriate places, yet I deal with it and get her the right treatments, even though it may inconvenience me. My puppy has torn up our carpets and chewed our walls. I deal with it because it is my responsibility to and I love them DEARLY. Part of having animals (and children) is to teach them the right way to behave, not ship them out when they do something wrong.

She got very snippy with me after I made that comment and everyone else we mutually know seems to be coddling her and thinking she's making the right decision. Am I the only one that thinks that is INSANE?! My husband urges me to just let it go, it's not worth getting upset over, but for some reason, this just really gets to me.

Boy does she have a big surprise ahead of her.

Kids do bite and they pee and poop in inappropriate places and they tear up things and break things and spill things and they get sick........... and the list goes on.

heaven help her chilcren.