October 2012 Weddings
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WTF Wednesday
Re: WTF Wednesday
This might be gross but: WTF is this a second head growing out of my neck or the world's largest zit?! It needs to F off.
@ystaalenburgI'm so sorry you're going through all of this!
Ok, this might get long. If you make it to the end, you deserve an award.
I haven't brought this issue up here yet because it is really emotional for me. Probably exacerbated by my hormones...
When we were traveling over the holidays, we were at my parents house in MI. On Christmas day, my sister and her kids (ages 8 and 6) came to their house. We brought the dog with us. My niece and nephew have a dog at their house and know how to respect animals. So, after dinner and after all the presents were opened, my nephew sat down to pet our dog. This was the first real exposure to kids Scout has had since we adopted her. We do have neighbors with young kids, but she only ever sees these kids when we are out on a walk and she is leashed. So, my nephew was sitting next to her on the couch calmly petting her, and she barked and snapped at my nephew. She didn't bite hard or break the skin, but it was enough to freak out H and I and startle my nephew. Later on in the afternoon, as I was sitting by her and my nephew walked in the room, she tensed up and barked at him. We were concerned that there might be a back story/pattern of abuse with young boys in her past.
After a lot of talk with my family members, H and I decided to contact the rescue we adopted her from and talk about re-homing her. We felt like we couldn't risk her harming other young children and especially our new baby. So, we contact the president of the rescue and brought up the idea of re-homing her. The president was immediately defensive to us about the incident and was acting like it was our fault that this happened. She made me feel even worse about the decision to give her up. Through the course of several emails we agreed to meet with a trainer to see if they thought it was an isolated incident and she was trainable or if we needed to surrender her back to the rescue. We had the trainer out last week and it was decided from the trainer through an initial test, that she is not suited for a home with small children. I sent that information back to the rescue president and got another aggressive email from her. It's like she is trying to make us feel guilty for giving her up. Like this decision isn't hard enough on us, her having this attitude is making it so much harder.
So, WTF lady, get your crap together and lets work together to make sure Scout has a loving forever home.
@WillyH19 I am so sorry that your dog won't be a good match for children. With the reaction of the rescue director, I wonder if this has happened before with your dog. I know they try to encourage you to work it out and keep the dog, but the fact that she's getting nasty makes things sound suspicious. My dog was a pound return at leas twice. He SILs grandmother got him and loved him until she passed away. Then my parents inherited him because my brother and SIL lived in an apartment that was not dog friendly. Hopefully, Scout will end up in a situation where he will go with an older couple without children who will love him and spoil him.
WTF real estate in my area. H and I discussed the house that we liked from Sunday and decided to move forward. I asked my realtor if we could go see it this afternoon so I could take my dad. She told me we could go see the house, but it already has an accepted offer on it. I drive past the house on my way to/from work and there was a home inspector in the driveway. The house has been on the market since last Monday! What do we have to do, see a house the day it's listed and have my realtor put an offer in for us as we're standing there? I want to think about it for a day or 2 since I'm spending a few hundred thousand dollars, all of the money I've saved since I started working and committing to pay for it for the next 30 years. We're deflated and frustrated and we want a home to bring our baby to in August, not my parents' basement.
Yup, my dad watched one too many "Flip that house" shows and was convinced that I would be able to get an awesome house for less than $100,000. He just got it in his head that all foreclosures would be super cheap, this was not the case...
Also did anyone else have people come over to your new house and point out it's every flaw? This drove me insane! I remember saying, "I'm aware I paid for a 23 page inspection that told me everything wrong with this house. Shut your cake hole." I think the most frustrating part of buying a house is your family. lol!