[Britster]

I also wanted to add, I'm not saying that people who give up or rehome their dogs are bad people because I understand that situations DO arise that people don't have control over, of course. But in something like this-- where you DO have the ability to work around it and keep your dog... it just doesn't make sense to me. But I'm not judging anyone. It's just not something I would feel comfortable doing. If I were to leave Jackson at my dads house for 2yrs and come back and just take him to living with just me & him, yes, he would surely be excited to see me and I'm sure he would get used to our new schedule, but I would feel terrible taking him away from the home had grown to love and be happy at over the past few years I had been away.