Thanks everyone...your replies touched my heart. I have tried everything to get them to leave her with me,even offering to buy them a new dog,but they said no. I will get to see her alot which is good as my son does intend to use me as her "babysitter" since she cant tolerate being alone. They live in an apartment so cant let her bark, which is what she would do if left alone. They will only be living about a mile away. I just think that will be confusing for her also though. I do kind of have hope that they will find out she is too much work and maybe bring her back to me, in which case, I would say this is it, she is mine. They did have her for about 6 months of her life when they were at school and got her the first set of shots and had her spayed so I cant say they have never done anything for her. His gf also has a cat, birds and fish so she is an animal lover. I know my son (who is pretty cold emotionally to many people) adores this dog so its not like they are evil people or will mistreat her. Its just that as you all have said, I am her mom. She loves all the people in our house, but it is me she follows everywhere. Plus her routine will be completely disrupted. I work a regular schedule and dh is home during the day many times as he has a flexible schedule, plus we have two other dogs who she loves, none of that will be the same with them. They stay up late and sleep late and I know they wont take her out when she needs to go. She has never been great with potty training and has to go out every 3 hrs or so or she has accidents. Like they are going to get up after partying Friday night and take her out at 6 am like I do. Oh well, there is not much I can do at this point. When they did this to me the first time and took her back, I cried for weeks(I know its silly), but eventually got used to it, but this time as I said she has been here so long, it will be harder. Thanks again for your kind words.
Laura |