Thanks for educating me...but now every dog owner pisses me off!

[lovespandp]

Originally Posted by RachelandSadie

gosh i miss having little kitties around. they were and still are one of my most favorite animals. i LOVE LOVE tigers and wanted for years to grow up and own two cubs and raise them up in my "mansion" lol always the dreamer here. anyways, yea i hate the litter and i hate hair and i hate scratching up my stuff. not a house cat person here. i love em to death but i would rather keep them out in the barn!!

as for my yorkie, she slept in mama's bed all night last night no potty troubles and she was perfect cept daddy tried to kiss mommy this morning and just about squished hers

Yeah a barn cat would be great!! LoL I love the Bangels too!! OHHHH So pretty! My Mom has a siamese (sweetheart) and a black and white mix( evil brat)..

Aww that's good I am glad to see her doing well!! I watch her water bottle vid!! So cute Peanut does the same thing infact if he sees you drinking out of a water bottle he will bark at you until you drink it all and give him the bottle!! I honestly have no clue where he learned that trick!!
Aww I wish my peanut would snuggle with me! He is Mr Independet and sleeps in his bed at night... but come 6:00 in the morning who is barking at me scratching at my bed!! Ahh my peanut!! I love the mornings!!

[RachelandSadie]

Originally Posted by lovespandp

Yeah a barn cat would be great!! LoL I love the Bangels too!! OHHHH So pretty! My Mom has a siamese (sweetheart) and a black and white mix( evil brat)..

Aww that's good I am glad to see her doing well!! I watch her water bottle vid!! So cute Peanut does the same thing infact if he sees you drinking out of a water bottle he will bark at you until you drink it all and give him the bottle!! I honestly have no clue where he learned that trick!!
Aww I wish my peanut would snuggle with me! He is Mr Independet and sleeps in his bed at night... but come 6:00 in the morning who is barking at me scratching at my bed!! Ahh my peanut!! I love the mornings!!

gotta love our babies, i wonder sometimes Sadie likes to go by our feet under the covers and sleep, that's not going to suffocate her is it?

[lovespandp]

Originally Posted by RachelandSadie

gotta love our babies, i wonder sometimes Sadie likes to go by our feet under the covers and sleep, that's not going to suffocate her is it?

Oh No...Don't worry about her. The only thing I would worry about is kicking her...

Peanut sleeps under the blanket WHEN he graces me with his presence!!

[RachelandSadie]

Originally Posted by lovespandp

Oh No...Don't worry about her. The only thing I would worry about is kicking her...

Peanut sleeps under the blanket WHEN he graces me with his presence!!

awwwssss...i do worry about squishing her. she was laying right up against my hubbie early this morning and he rolled a little bit onto her to kiss me and i was like SADIE'S THERE AHHHH and she just kinda looked at me like darn it dad but never yelped so i don't think he hurt her

[livingdustmops]

Originally Posted by RachelandSadie

oh i know, i love you to pieces and i'm glad to know that it hurts them. i didn't realize it.
i've had cats that were barnyard cats that come and go for years growing up, but never a house cat. i may get one when we have our own house as long as i can litter train and get a really short haired one. i'm huge on the whole shedding thing. hence the Yorkie!!

anyways yea it's sad about my SIL. it's my hubbie's sister, she's the oldest and her story is long and awful so get your popcorn out:

she got with this dude when she was in high school, she got pregnant young and married him. he was abusive, on steriods, and a total a hole. he's now a well known tattoo artist in Chicago. anyways, they broke up once during her younger years i think before she has her first son, and she moved to MO where her mom, dad, and brothers moved. she lived with her mom's cousin for awhile and this guy comes to MO and lures her back to Chicago with him. this upset everyone in her family and broke their hearts. she was at that point hopeless and a total disappointment to her family. so then she has her first child and then they finally divorce. after the divorce she gets pregnant again from him and has her second son. finally she really does leave him for good and goes off to marry his BROTHER. they both turn their lives around and get saved and want to live a Christian life (they are both tattooed up from their past lives and her new hubbie looks hard) anyways, hubbie #2 has three children from a previous marriage. his ex wife is on drugs really really bad and kids children often slept in one room filled with dog poop and all of this woman's new babies from other men. i think she has like 6 kids now and is in and out of jail a lot. so hubbie #2 has a 15 year old girl, a 12 yr old son and a 11 yr old girl

after SIL and new hubbie married, they had a little baby girl too. so there's 6 children together now. they got into a nasty custody battle over SIL's two boys with her first hubbie. they lost....sad and sucked...so rather than stay in Chicago where her job is and fight it again...they move to MO which they claim was God's will. i don't deny that God does have a plan...but all of us were not sure that was His plan for them because now she is driving/flying to chicago once or twice a month for work, the rest of the time works at home, they are in MAJOR debt from the court stuff and moving and its a mess. but finally another year goes by, they lived with my husbands mom and dad awhile and put my husband out of his own room during Christmas break from college...but they finally get their own place and get back on their feet again. they only have the little girl with them at first, they had gotten the 15 yr old girl to live with SIL's parents my inlaws for awhile to get her away from her mother. that went ok and then they took her with them when they got their new house...then the also got the 10 yr old daughter and then eventually this summer got the boys back from dad 1. so they have 5 kiddos now. but while the custody battle thing happend 15 yr old daughter had some issues with sexual promiscuity and running around and she ran away overnight at a boy's house. they placed her into a teen challenge program for 15 months and she's loosing her entire JR. year of high school from this now. but she is getting help and doing better. i dont' know if she needed this extreme of a measure or just better parenting because her father (hubbie 2) doesn't seem to know how to be a man and step up in his house and discipline the kids and lets them run all over the neighborhood and crap like that.

so now there's the daughter 10 yr old issue i mentioned before and it's going to end up just exactly like 15 yr old girl because they won't do anything to discipline and FORCE their authority over her, they just let her get away with sassing and being a brat. she needs serious mental help from the living situation with her drugged out mom and she needs my SIL to be that Mother to her that she never really had. but instead they just fight each other and SIL isn't much of a mom to her, because she's too focused on the cute little baby girl now 4 and her own sons.

and then throw in her two son's sports and the oldest's football skills and this little girl gets ignored most of the time.

and throw in the dog and cat that were both adopted from shelters and needed training and attention too and it's a huge MESS

and and did i mention my MIL is a psycho!? she's seriously mentally ill most likely from all the stress her daughter caused her and will not admit she's the problem and everyone else is always to blame for her issues. she's 100% negative all the time and she's mean and horrible and it's really really hard to keep my mouth shut and respect her as my MIL because she's an evil, manipulative and literally CRAZY woman.

anyways that's the whole story of my wonderful in laws.

there is an older brother and his wife who moved back to Chicago, he's a police man there just like FIL used to be and they just had my beautiful nephew in August and are wonderful, stable people

and younger BIL who is going to be in college forever and never move out i think and he's 21 now. and he hates his mom's attitude but has no money to move out and leave her

and then there's my hubbie, the most stable, wonderful, hardworking man in the world that i love dearly and we have a nice home and good jobs and do everything we can to not cause anymore stress on his mom and I try to stay far away from her and not talk to her as much as possible.

that's my story...hope you enjoyed the saga!!

Do you understand that everything you write can be read on the internet by millions of people? Not just people on YT. Many times when people do a goggle search comments on YT come up in the search.

[RachelandSadie]

Originally Posted by livingdustmops

Do you understand that everything you write can be read on the internet by millions of people? Not just people on YT. Many times when people do a goggle search comments on YT come up in the search.

yes i am aware hence the season i did not use names on here.

[lovespandp]

Originally Posted by RachelandSadie

awwwssss...i do worry about squishing her. she was laying right up against my hubbie early this morning and he rolled a little bit onto her to kiss me and i was like SADIE'S THERE AHHHH and she just kinda looked at me like darn it dad but never yelped so i don't think he hurt her

hmm I wouldn't worry to much about the whole "squishing" her thing, I had Peanut in bed with me when he was like 2 lbs and nothing ever happened.. He slept snuggled up right to my belly...I am a hard sleeper too!! I think when you move a little they will move to get in a better spot..As long as you are aware of her in your bed..she should be safe!

[inabowbina]

Originally Posted by Nancy1999

There's an old saying ignorance is bliss, and you have learned first hand this is true. Being ignorant is not the same as being stupid, ignorance is just not knowing enough about a certain situation, and we are all ignorant in different areas. It actually hurts to know about certain things, and I believe that is why many people turn a blind eye to things. I'm glad you are becoming more aware, and the next step to learn is to separate the evil from the evildoer. For example, I hate puppy mills, but I don't believe that evil people are running them; many are good people trying to earn a living and provide for their families, and think of dogs like they do any livestock, and don't realize that the domestication of dogs means that they have special needs. On the other hand, I have a hard time with puppy brokers, who know the dogs should be kept in better conditions, yet continue to buy from millers and auctions and then resale these dogs through online sites. Once you know better, it's important to do better.

very well said.

[tammy8833]

i remeber when gidget and little girl had their terrible fight and gidget lost the use of her eye...the night i took her to the er they wanted to remove her eye $1000 i had no clue how to deal with it financially because all the money was tied up in purchasing a home..so i was distraught and told her that i didnt know how to handle it..and the vets first comment was that she refused to put her to sleep..i was appalled that she made the comment...but i guess alot of ignorant people make that choice and the vet felt she needed to make her stand

thank fully i have a loving mother who offered to cover the whole thing until the house stuff cleared...but the next day we took gidget to our regular dr who stated she didnt need surgery at all (but if she did it was only $200) she did lose site in that eye though

[RachelandSadie]

Originally Posted by tammy8833

i remeber when gidget and little girl had their terrible fight and gidget lost the use of her eye...the night i took her to the er they wanted to remove her eye $1000 i had no clue how to deal with it financially because all the money was tied up in purchasing a home..so i was distraught and told her that i didnt know how to handle it..and the vets first comment was that she refused to put her to sleep..i was appalled that she made the comment...but i guess alot of ignorant people make that choice and the vet felt she needed to make her stand

thank fully i have a loving mother who offered to cover the whole thing until the house stuff cleared...but the next day we took gidget to our regular dr who stated she didnt need surgery at all (but if she did it was only $200) she did lose site in that eye though

i wish more vets would stand up for their beliefs and not just PTS anything that the pet parents wants to. i'm glad you got your situation worked out and i hope that your pet lives a very long and happy life.

[tammy8833]

thank you
me too
gidget is my love bug, my friend, my protector...and im the same for her

[starstella92]

Originally Posted by RachelandSadie

i don't think i could work at a vet's i'd be adopting all the dogs that people brought in to PTS. i hate that when people don't want to deal with a dog they just kill it like it's nothing. you would do that to your child if they had behavioral problems??? you see a shrink or something and learn to help them work through the issues. i hate that dogs aren't cared about enough that people take more time to take care of them. my SIL wants to get rid of their cat because it scratches stuff. well get the thing declawed and fixed duhhh...

i hate that he might get rehomed again because her family doesn't have the ability to take care of him, why did they get pets to begin with, they have 6 kids total and now a dog and a cat because they think all kids deserve a family pet to care for, but the kids don't care for the pets and the parents fight over how to care for them so it's madness and they have out of control pets. just makes me angry.

I know this is an older thread, but I wanted to comment on the whole "get the cat declawed duhhhh" part. Declawing is extremely inhumane; it's cutting their fingers off pretty much. This not only takes away one of very few means of defense, but can drastically change a cat's personality. Some declawed cats have serious behavioral problems ie: they stop using the litter box, they bite, some even just withdraw from humans altogether. Just thought I'd let you know. You should never declaw a cat, there are other ways to deter a cat from scratching your furniture and such.

[DerbyLayne]

So, I read that you weren't ok with a dog being put down because it attacked ?

I nearly had my entire hand taken off by a dog. It had my entire hand in its mouth and was using it like a chew toy. I remember it like it was yesterday. It was gnawing at it, and eating at it. I had to pull at it so hard to get it out. I remember running home with my hand dangling and blood running down.

I was in the hospital for weeks, broke bones in my hand, and it got infected. I have the scars on my hand for life to prove it.

The owners put the dog down. I guess for fear we'd sue them for not having it on a leash? because it attacked an innocent child? I'm not too sure. I was 5 years old.

So, just asking.

Do you think this was right or wrong of the owners?

Should we have sued?

Keep in mind, we're in Canada and this was 1985. (but it could be relevant today)

[starstella92]

Originally Posted by DerbyLayne

So, I read that you weren't ok with a dog being put down because it attacked ?

I nearly had my entire hand taken off by a dog. It had my entire hand in its mouth and was using it like a chew toy. I remember it like it was yesterday. It was gnawing at it, and eating at it. I had to pull at it so hard to get it out. I remember running home with my hand dangling and blood running down.

I was in the hospital for weeks, broke bones in my hand, and it got infected. I have the scars on my hand for life to prove it.

The owners put the dog down. I guess for fear we'd sue them for not having it on a leash? because it attacked an innocent child? I'm not too sure. I was 5 years old.

So, just asking.

Do you think this was right or wrong of the owners?

Should we have sued?

Keep in mind, we're in Canada and this was 1985. (but it could be relevant today)

From what I understood in her previous post, the dog attacked another dog not a human being. The woman injured herself when she stepped in, and that's going to happen if anyone gets in the middle of a dog fight- guaranteed. I think a dog attacking another dog is one thing (especially if they are both your own pets), but if a dog attacks a human it's a big NO. I think it was right to PTS a dog that viciously attacks anyone, as it will likely happen again. It's still a sad situation (I don't like the idea of any dog being PTS), but it's what's best for everyone in the long run.