Would You Have Given Up On 15 Year Old Nero?

[ladybirder]

https://www.rescueremediesdogrescue.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=8563&sid=4a6a503814551ca4cac1293154196ce6

[Mamyalynne]

Fabulous news, hope the rehoming goes ahead and he has a lovely retirement.x

[ladybirder]

Great news it is Prudie:-))
Naughty son-in-law Hoppy!

[jno]

Nero's owner asked us to help him as he is becoming withdrawn and mistrustful of fast movements etc.

very hard to force a six-year-old child not to make fast movements.

[woofgang]

Jno, you don't force. Children who are brought up with dogs in a decent household learn to let the dog be in the same way that they learn not to touch the hot cooker.....

[iluvmargie]

I clicked on the link and didn't see anything different?

[Prudie]

It now says reserved when originally it said available iluvmargie. If the child was 2 I might sympathise but it's been around this dog for 6 years and is an age that could understand the way to behave with animals.

[wolf63]

It is good that he now has the prospect of a new home. I adopted a cat that was 13++ years old and he settled in brilliantly. He lived for a further five years.

I would not get rid of an animal in these circumstances but I don't have children. We don't have enough information to allow us to criticise these people. They may have become nervous wrecks trying to keep both the dog and child under control.

[iluvmargie]

Thanks Prudie. I looked again and saw it this time. Good news for the little feller.

[Deskdiary]

I had a 12 year old Labrador put down in 2016 - funnily enough he was called Nero as well, because he was black - at the time he too had become grumpy, he was also becoming incontinent, but the last straw was when unprovoked he took a lump out of my son's leg.

A child is ALWAYS more important than a dog; he may have had a year or two left in him, but I wasn't prepared to take the chance of it happening again.

People like margie need to think a little, if that's possible, before branding these people scum; the owners were doing what they thought was right, the growls may have turned into something more, so they did what they did because they were putting their child first.

I don't blame them.

[iluvmargie]

Do NOT tell me that I need to think a little, who the hell do YOU think you are. In my opinion they are scum and if you don't like me saying that, then tough!! Your opinion matters not a jot to me, so go and bore someone else.

[Deskdiary]

^^^well it clearly does.

[Mamyalynne]

I'd like to say categorically I wouldn't have given him up but we can't walk in another's shoes and I won't label them.

I just hope Nero has the rest of his life with a good caring owner.

[iluvmargie]

Think what you like, couldn't give a stuff.

[iluvmargie]

^^ That was to know it all DD.

[iluvmargie]

Yes mamya and one who doesn't dump him when the going gets tough like his last rotten owners did.

[Mozz71]

Great news that he has a new (hopefully) forever home to spend his twilight years in.

[Prudie]

But DD you did the right thing in the circumstances. This family didn't - they basically dumped him to possibly live out his few years in a cage in a rescue centre wondering what the hell he'd done wrong. That's the difference.

[Hopkirk]

We don't know the full story so we can't judge. I disagree with those here who say they should have had him put to sleep. They didn't, and he potentially now will settle into a new living home.
Good luck Nero.

[Deskdiary]

Yes, fair enough Prudie, it would have been better to have had him put down, but perhaps they did it with the best of intentions so he could live his last year or so with somebody who wouldn’t mind the potential threat.

It certainly doesn’t make them scum though.

[Mozz71]

I agree with Hopkirk here. I can't see how putting an animal down is better than the possibility of getting them rehoused.