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Originally Posted by friesianlady   Here is the rest of my story. Yes we are being SUED. We tried everything trying to rehome Brodie, my children all had dogs and young babies in their homes. Tried D.R.U.its a Doberman Resue, we could not bring him to them because he was micro chipped by the ASPCA and they require that the dog be returned to them. Had my husband not been so weak from his COPD illness we would have kept Brodie. We spent well over the $4800.00 on him, had blood transfusions, spleen removed and all the medication, so as you can see we cared enough about him to go into debt. After many months of soul searching we decided to return him. They promised to make sure a good home was found for him. He was adopted again by a young woman, and Brodie after several months in her home, did bite her boyfriend and two weeks later bit her, and did cause some damage. They are sueing us for damages saying that we were not honest about his behavior and the ASPCA is sueing us saying we were not truthful when we brought him back..This dog never showed signs of aggessiveness nor did he bit anyone in our house. Had to hire a lawyer, we have a court date in October. Also we were the 2nd. owners of Brodie....So you see rescue is not for me... Anyone have any legal advice ?? |
That is really awful. Did you do any training with a professional who could vouch for his disposition? It's possible that the new boyfriend reminded him of someone who abused him and it's also possible that the new people did something where he felt he had to defend himself. (Not that you don't have enough going on in your life, but if you can read "The Other End of the Leash" by Patricia McConnell.) You don't know that what these new people did to make this dog bite.
He could very well have had a trigger that was never set off in the environment of your loving home. If you can, I would contact someone who has studied animal behavior and could explain how this sort of thing happens. Perhaps they could prepare a statement or testify for you as an "expert".