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Help!
Hypothetically, let's say you adopted another dog today from the Humane Society with the intent of seeing how your other pets dealt with the new addition for a week, with plans to return the new dog if things didn't work out.Now let's say you suddenly had to go out of town on Monday- What would you do?A) Go ahead and return the new dog- The other pets don't seem too crazy about her after 1 day and it doesn't seem like they will warm up quickly to the new dog.Spend $150 boarding the new dog so you can bring her back home when you get back home, even though you aren't sure at all whether you'll keep her or not.
...H and I broke down and brought home another dog today. We took Milo with us, they met, things were kind of neutral- Milo didn't love her, but he didn't hate her. So we psyched ourselves up and convinced ourselves to bring her home for a week trial, and then we would decide.Turns out H's grandmother passed away today (after a looong illness), and the wake is on Monday, funeral on Tuesday. We will have to fly from Colorado to Alabama for it. We will need to stay in Alabama for about a week- So now we're are 1,000% torn on the new dog. I don't want to spend $150 boarding her if we aren't going to keep her. But she is SO sweet and adorable, I don't know if I want to take her back after only 1 day of Milo giving her the evil eye.Help, ladies!!! H is of no use (his grandmother's passing has hit him pretty hard, and he's also buried at work so super stressed already), and I'm just not sure what to do about this at all
Re: Help!
Keep the dog! Spend the $150, if your current dog was neutral, he will DEFINITELY warm up to the new dog eventually. If you guys are ok with two dogs, I say keep the new one!
I know when I got my cat, the humane society insisted on keeping her for a few days until she healed from her spay procedure and up to date on her shots. You could ask the humane society to take care of that stuff and keep her there til you get back?
Did you try asking a neighbor to watch the dog? I know I am not super close to my neighbors but if someone explained the situation, I would be willing to help.
If anything I would continue to call around to different vets and explain the situation, maybe one will come down on the price more.
Maybe you can call the Humane Society and they could recommend a boarding place for less.
Just a few ideas, I hope I helped.
I agree with this. Did you like, fully fully adopt the dog? Or does the humane society know that you are on a "trial" with the dog at home?
I know that if you've adopted a dog as done deal, they obviously really frown upon taking the dog back. "Like, would you return a baby if you adopted it?" is the mindset a lot of these places have.
My friend was thinking of adopting a corgi, but wasn't able to adopt it quite YET because she hadn't moved out of her no-pet apartment. It had been brought to the shelter originally, adopted a 1st time, and then returned for some silly reason. My friend met the dog after his return from his 1st adoption. Turns out a 2nd person adopted it in the meantime before she was able to - but then apparently the kid in the house was allergic, so they brought it back. At this particular shelter, an animal brought back for the 2nd time has 24 hours to be adopted at that point, or else they euthanize it. The shelter called my friend and pretty much said if she didn't adopt the dog, they'd euthanize it - she freaked out and went and rescued him. She had no place to keep him at that point, but she couldn't let them kill the dog. And he is the sweetest, nicest, cutest corgi! She's had him for 3-4 years now.
Anyways, long story short...the only way I'd return a dog that you fully adopted is if he was mean as hell and attacking people.
This, tell them what happened, and ask them if they can hold onto the dog for another week due to circumstances. If they know that you ARE planning on coming back for it they may be willing to.
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Thanks for all the input.
The HS knew we were only keeping her contingent with how she worked with our other pets- Our branch has a very liberal return policy, and is also a no kill shelter. Unfortunately, the new dog was really aggressive with chasing our cat (not to mention birds & squirrels in the backyard)- Something that didn't come up until after I posted, fwiw.
We took the new dog back this morning, and it about broke both our hearts- We were both sitting in the car crying like idiots after dropping her off. She is a fantastic dog (other than her cat issues) but we couldn't justify keeping her if it was going to hurt our cat's quality of life.
We decided if we get another dog, it'll need to be a puppy- The "cat test" that the HS does with their dogs just isn't accurate, and we both decided we can NEVER go through this kind of situation again