Especially my dad. I intend on setting my terrier on him. And having people pay to watch. Like a dog fight.
He lost his Lurcher tonight. Again. And then drove off and left him. Again. 
We made him go back. I reported him missing on the dog warden's site because I could get no answer on the OOH number.
Of course the second it's posted the dog turns up.
Then this conversation happened;
DM: Your Dad can't handle this anymore (true). You'll have to put the dog on internet. We can't keep him.
Me: Don't be so fucking stupid. Just give the dog to me.
DF: No. Your DH won't like it. I'm not causing arguments with you both.
Me: Since when has he had a choice in what pets we have?
DF: You can't him.
Me: Stop letting him off his fucking lead then, until he's trained, you muppet.
DF: He is trained.
Me: Yeah. I can see how well he's trained.
DM: He's ill, D0oin, he can't handle this anymore.
Me: Do you want me to start walking him?
DF: What makes you think he'll come back for you?
Me: I'll train him and keep in an enclosed area, on a recall leash till he gets it. He's adolescent. This is what they do. He also needs neutering. Do need me to lend you the money to get him done?
DM: No. We can't afford to give you it back.
Me: I'll give you the money.
DF: It'll cause an argument. I'm putting him on FB.
Me: Just give me the fucking dog. Do you know what happens to dog advertised via FB?
DF: We don't care.
And it went on and on. I offered again to nueter him. To keep him. To rehome him via rescue. To train him. To walk him. To take him out for a run with the bike daily, so my Dad does not have to deal with him.
He's still going on FB apparently
I swear to god if that dog goes anywhere near FB I'm breaking into their house and stealing him, along with the other two. Yes, my Dad is ill. No he can't manage to actually walk with a dog, but fgs, I gave him enough options to help did I not?
[needs wine]
If you're worried about your pet's health, please speak to a vet or qualified professional.
The doghouse
Grr. My parents are so fucking infuriating.
D0oinMeCleanin · 08/04/2012 21:05
I've offered him my Whippet to help on walks several million times over. She has superb recall and his Lurcher loves nothing more in the world than to chase her because she's the only dog he's ever met he cannot catch, thus he follows her back.
I've offered recall training tips. I've offered to go with him when he walks them to show him what to do.
I'm going to wait until everyone has calmed down and phone them and try and reason with them again. The conversation got a little bit more sweary towards the end and now no-one is speaking to anyone 
I know he would never deliberately hurt the dog. He believes he can find him a good home my arse he can. Hopefully he is just at the end of his tether and will calm down and accept some help from me.
Why don't you suggest having the dog for a few weeks to give them some respite.
You can then refuse to give it back and train him in the meantime 
I've got stealth ninja gear if you need help in stealing him.
I've already ordered my parents to give me their SBT if they ever decide on rehoming him.
We all know what happens to most SBTs given up.
and Have some more 
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Hopefully once they have calmed down they will listen to you and break and enter won't be necessary.
Could you twist your DHs arm so that he says 'oh I heard you were thinking of re-homing the dog please can I have him?'. seeing as how that was one of the reasons they gave for you not having him.
Yikes Dooin, no wonder you are 
and
It sounds like they are too proud to accept help from you? Wait till they calm down and see what they say to your DH's offer...
And if it is your sister's dog - could she take it off them and give it to you?
Either way, keeping everything crossed for you x
That's exactly what it is BLNN. My Dad is far too proud to admit that I might be able to handle the dog better than him. My terrier trained himself, according to my Dad, to not be fear aggressive of us/the children anymore and to not eat the cat 
. He also trained his own recall, which is not perfect, but a with an active terrier x with a high prey drive, what do you expect? If he spots something to chase, he can niether see nor hear me, all he can see is the rabbit/squirel etc. It's managble. He can be let of in wide open spaces where there is nothing to chase and he's run a few times a week with the bike lead.
I actually helped them get this dog. I thought they would look after him. I paid for the rehoming fee. It's just occured to me that they never actually repaid me. Technically he is still my dog.
I feel so awful. They've never done anything like this before and have owned dogs all their lives. Although they've never had any dog as challenging and my Dad's never been this ill.
He is very ill so I do have some sympathy for him. He only got the dogs on the understanding that I would step in and take over their exercise if/when my Dad became too ill to cope. Well, that was the agreement for the first dog (the one that runs away) and the second one under duress. The third one was not discussed with me .
I've spoken to them. My mum wants to keep the dog and wants me to either walk him and retrain him for a few weeks and then hand the responsibility back to my dad or just walk him with my own permanantly.
My Dad still thinks there is no hope and wants to rehome him but will talk to me tomorrow about once he is feeling better. Apparently he is stressed and has to take his agina meds and now has migraine meds, too, which is new.
The dog in question is a bull terrier type (possibly AmBull) crossed with a Greyhound. Can you imagine what sort of muppets he would attract via FB or Gumtree? They might aswell just hand him over to dog fighters/hunters and be done with it. If they need rid permanty I will find him a home via the Greyhound rescue. It shouldn't be hard, he's cat friendly, great with children and other dogs and has no issues bar an easily fixable recall issue. He'll recall from a hunt if he spots something to chase. The only problem is when he spots his lead and knows it's home time.
So frustrating when it should be so easily fixed.
Offer to take him for a walk and just not talk him back for as long as it takes
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