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I just don't want their dog here

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WinkyWinkola · 17/07/2011 11:18

Pil are coming to visit this weekend. They stay in a hotel as our house is too small to accommodate them.

Mil has this ancient dog that is blind and well, imo, ready to be put down. She wants to bring it with them. It will have to stay with us whilst they are in the hotel.

I don't want the dog here, especially not a disabled one that will probably poo and wee every where. We don't have a garden as it's currently a building site.

If I wanted a dog, I'd get one. I don't so I won't. I've got 3 dcs and that's really enough for me. Plus all the cooking and hospitality for pil this weekend - which of course I don't mind but I think bringing the dog is an imposition.

Aibu?

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intelligenceitself · 17/07/2011 19:35

And DBF isn't horrid at all. If it wasn't for people like her many more dogs would be abandoned, kicked to death, hit with sticks and left to burn in house fires

intelligenceitself · 17/07/2011 19:36

Cheers Andrew

Claw3 · 17/07/2011 19:36

For the best really DBF, working with children, especially those who had just falling through ice, probably wouldnt suit you!

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WinkyWinkola · 17/07/2011 19:37

I'm sure mil will be persuaded to have dog put down. Dh on phone again to her now. He called her back and is persuading her. She said the vet let her take the dog away to say good bye. Tbh, she did this with her last two dogs according to dh. She can't let go. Too sad, she says.

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GeraldineAubergine · 17/07/2011 19:37

Can't believe anyone would admit they would save a dog over a child, even if the child isn't your own, surely people come before dogs? Sometimes on these threads I feel sorry for dog lovers getting a bashing but when I read mad things like this I can kind of see why it happens.

LineRunner · 17/07/2011 19:37

DBF, doesn't working with dogs mean you see a lot getting euthanised? I saw the Battersea Dogs Home documentary a while back and saw healthy dogs being put down just because of the sheer numbers being abandoned.

Hence my interminable pleas for responsible dog ownership. Don't get one if you can't be arsed to put in the time, the effort and the money.

DogsBestFriend · 17/07/2011 19:38

Oddly, no, I can't say it would, Claw.

It'd be a really cuntish job AFAIAC

Okay, okay, enough of the cunt quims quips.

Blush - thank you intelligence. :)

intelligenceitself · 17/07/2011 19:38

Why are people who rescue children heroes and people who rescue dogs stupid? I thought humanity had developed beyond that

MsPlaced · 17/07/2011 19:39

anyone who would save a dog over a child is more than a bit of a cunt, and probably shouldn't be in a caring profession if those being cared for are human. Better off sticking to the animals.

intelligenceitself · 17/07/2011 19:39

Dragger. Of. Knuckles.

DogsBestFriend · 17/07/2011 19:41

LineRunner, not on my watch it doesn't. Battersea Dogs Pound (for that is what it is) are cunts, that's for sure.

I work alongside no-kill rescue and as an ardent animal rights advocate/supporter/extremist/activist, call it what you will, my own mantra is "No kill, no excuses, no limits, no fear".

intelligenceitself · 17/07/2011 19:42

LOL at all the people who would save someones elses family before their own

DogsBestFriend · 17/07/2011 19:42

Keeping fingers crossed that DH is successful in persuading MIL.

Claw3 · 17/07/2011 19:46

No one is saying that people who rescue dogs are stupid, just those who would rescue a dog and leave a child to die, people are having difficulty understanding this, including me.

DooinMeCleanin · 17/07/2011 19:47

Could DH or yourself drive up and take the dog? My mum couldn't bear to take her lab in the end. She knew it was the right thing and she knew she had to, but she just couldn't. I made all the arrangements and I took her in the end.

My mum is not cruel, she didn't want the dog to suffer any longer than she had to, she just couldn't do it herself.

I can understand that. I don't think I'd be able to take one of my own.

DogsBestFriend · 17/07/2011 19:48

It's the simplicity of the human who can only see as far as saving their own species because he's their own species which I find so fascinating.

Erm a dilemma... save Max, whom you saved from death once before 8 years ago, who has been your completely loyal and constant companion ever since and , to whom you owe so much or save someone you don't know and with whom you have no attachment whatsoever just because it's the same species as you.

No contest.

intelligenceitself · 17/07/2011 19:49

But people who consider the dog as family would naturally save their own family first. I wouldn't reward years of love and loyalty by watching my pets die especiallyifthechildwasabrat

DogsBestFriend · 17/07/2011 19:49

Bloody good ides Dooin.

HopeForTheBest · 17/07/2011 19:49

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DogsBestFriend · 17/07/2011 19:52

Pah! beware the ides! It's a bloody good idea, Dooin!

Claw3 · 17/07/2011 19:53

Admittedly, intelligenceitself if it was a really ugly child, i might have to think twice.

Malcontentinthemiddle · 17/07/2011 19:54

I wouldn't save her children before mine - just before any dogs!

LineRunner · 17/07/2011 19:55

DBF, we have no-kill rescue where I live, so how come the London councils don't do it?

I have to admit to being shocked at seeing vets putting down healthy dogs at Battersea.

intelligenceitself · 17/07/2011 19:55

Or if it was a child who corrected adults grammar

lachesis · 17/07/2011 19:55

I'd yell at the kid to step on the dog to boost themselves up in the water.

Where is SGB when you need her? She's a real animal lover, of the, 'I love dogs, I just don't think I could eat a whole one' variety :o.