We have to rehome Duke for his own safety. I was worrying so much about the girls but I cannot stop crying

[TrinIsASadSpottyFatRhino]

I've failed him

I'm sorry, I know I'm being selfish wanting someone to talk to me

I feel awful
I'm sorry

I dont want him to go

thanks lady

When I was a little girl, we had a pet budgie, just a baby. He had to go back to the breeder because he was so unhappy away from the aviary that he was plucking his own feathers out. I sobbed myself to sleep the night before he left, but it took about five minutes for me to fall in love with the replacement; your dc will be fine.

You've arranged for Duke to go to a no-kill rescue, from where he'll find a new, loving family. And when the time is right, you and the girls can choose a new rescue dog to love.

Everyone wins.

But I know how hard I would find it to part with my dog, so I understand your feelings, especially as Duke was Neil's dog.

he is such the sweetest dog in the house

when we got him he was only 7 months old and gecko was only just passed two

he loved them all completely

gecko used to hold him to walk and invite him into small boxes with her and he would ccram himself into cardboard boxes with her and be stroked for ages

he sleeps on the end of al the girls beds in turn
you cculd predit whos bed he was going to sleep in next week

he iss lovely and kind and gentle and loves his balls

I just feel awful, I wish we could have done better by him

I meant loves balls as in fetching balls not his own..

will my girls get over it

dd2 is still pullingher hair out from her dads death

I just feel like I shoud be protecting them from more hurt

they have had such a big hurt in their lives that I couldn't protect them fom

but duke may end ujp killed for antyisocail behaviour or killed by chasing cars

I need to do the best from for duke becasue i love him too

LOL! Dogs and their balls...

the only dog he couln'td beat to a ball in the park was a retired greyhound

he is so intent on chasing birds tht he keeps going even whe they have taken off lol
he's lovely, he really is

I dreamed that I took him back

it was awful

I'm his mummy

Then I'm sure he'll soon find another loving family. Your girls will get over him, although they will miss him in the short term; could you maybe get them a smaller pet, maybe a rabbit? (My other childhood pet.)

I got a springer spaniel from the pound who i had for a year. My eldest dd loved the very bones of him.

He was untrained, a nightmare with other dogs, i couldnt walk him on or off the lead. He mauled a womans dog. I didnt have the experience at the time to train him.

She howled for a week and still has a photo of him on her cabnet. She was 3 when i gave him back to the pound. She is 9 now and still asks about him.

I wouldnt take the kids with you when you take Duke back. I was a wreck when i handed my dog back. I told dd he had gone with santa to be his helper.

To this day i still worry about what happened to him.

we had a gorgeous rabbit when dd1 was about 4 but we live in the country and he nanaged to get out of his pen and came back with myxi

I had to have her put down, it was horrid

oh fifi, I'm so sorry

That happened with my rabbit too, the New Year's Eve I was 15. :(

Duke is.not going to.be.put down. he is getting the help he needs to address his behavioural issues and find a new family who can help him. you have all had a difficult 2years but duke needs some thing more to help him. you have donewell by him and.loved him. no one can deny that.

I feel sorry for the dog more than me. I just hope he got rehomed. I always hoped he ended up on a big farm somewhere with ooodles of space, realsitically he probably didnt.

Yours will be fine if you are taking him to a rehomiing centre. I just handed mine straight back to the pound which looking back was a bad move.

need to leave soon to get his injections

all the kids are coming

Hope you have a special evening with him. x

Take care Trin.

xx

Oh Trin

Take care love xxxx

{hugs}}

thaqnks guys, hes had his jabs and we've bought him some new things to take with him that the kids chose

Sometimes you are just not at the right point in your life to do things. You are doing the best thing for your dog and for you. Must be very hard though, big hugs.
I am sure in time you will have space and time in your heart/home for another dog.

Well done. You and your kids are doing this as well as you possibly can - which will help you all deal with it.

he's gone back and already I can feel calm in the house

I cant stop crying and the girls are very sad but it was very stressful worrying about him all the time