Bon Voyage Snowball!
How is this for a great big humbug?! We have found a new home for our peeing- and -pooping- on -everything -that -doesn’t- move -and -some -things -that- do- for -the- past -4 -years dog and now have to do the final farewell as he heads to a new home with another small dog where he will get pampered in the way he was bred to be pampered. Great thing for us. Greater thing for Snowball. Not so good for my kiddies. They are aware we were looking for a home for him and would NEVER send him to the pound, but I know they don’t grasp the reality of the full picture.
I swore I would never be this kind of pet owner or parent. As a kid myself, my mother was habitual in her practice of getting us a pet and, before the year was up, getting rid of it in whatever way she deemed necessary. There were dogs left with other families,cats that just never came home, dogs taken to the pound and dogs that went to “live on a farm in the country”. Each time was a heart wrenching experience for us kids and I SWORE I would never do this to an animal or my children.
So here I am in a position to explain to my children that Snowball, the peeing Bichon Frise, is off to a better home and I am reliving all the dogs of my past. As a grown up I have been a responsible pet owner and had our last two dogs for 13 and 10 years (so far) each. This is a different situation and I know he would be better off in a home where someone will take the one on one time with him and not treat him like an outside dog because of his inability to be house trained or maybe our inability to do it correctly. Now that I have explained and rationalized this to myself and to you, how do I tell my kids?! I hate the long goodbyes, but know they need to be given that opportunity. I am just a big fat chicken and don’t want to do it! I keep thinking this will become one of my children’s Holiday memories and they will remember this yearly. I would rather they remember J’s Make a Wish Cruise rather than the good bye to Snowball event this will surely become!
The clincher?! My husband has promised them a new dog after the holidays. Oh Lord help me!
Peace,
K
Maybe the promise of a new dog will lessen the blow of losing Snowball. We have a bull terrier that I would LOVE to get rid of b/c he is too big, too loud, too rambunctious, too everything! But, my husband loves that dog to death, so he always says no when I beg to find a new home for him. I’m gonna keep asking, though!
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Oh I feel for you. I happen to be the polar opposite of your mom…I am the biggest sucker for pets. I can’t say no.
Right now we have a 13 yr old lab that pees everywhere. Its gross.
At least you found your pup a good home. It will give you just enough time to get ready for the new one.
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Oh, wow….we just had to give our dog up this summer. At first I was ready to do it (we had to for landlord reasons), but when it came time to do it, I think I had a harder time with it than my kids. So, I can understand. At least he does have a good home and will have someone to love him….that’s a great thing. Following from MBC.:)
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Following from MBC
One time we had to give up a dog which was so sad for me and not for my husband. We were getting a smaller yard and she was a big dog…. so sad. But the people we gave her too had a farm and kids She had room to roam…..
I understand that sometimes it has to be done.
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