Brittney
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Alright. So I was on Facebook the other day, and my stepmother and stepsister are my "friends" on there. From when I last talked to them, which was a while ago, they said they were in the process of moving. This didn't surprise me at all, as my dad is always switching jobs, but a couple of things kind of frustrated me.
1) Whenever they move, they HAVE to build a house. They can't just buy one that is being sold. Well, on my stepmom's facebook, she's complaining that they have to live in a dinky ole apartment until they can find a house. Really? There are plenty of houses out there that you could move into right away. I just don't get that. If you want to build a house, then do it, but don't complain about it.
2) They are always getting dogs when they move into a new house, and giving them away. This really bothers me, and I have spoken to them about it and my stepmom says "they are just animals, they don't know what's going on." Well ever since my dad married my stepmom, they have had about, uhm, 8 dogs in the 12 years they have been together. They will move somewhere, and get a dog, and when they have to move again, they get rid of a dog, and already have another dog lined up to where they are moving. Now, by moving, I don't mean state to state or even across the state for that matter. They keep moving between Chattanooga and Knoxville. Which are 30-45 minutes away from each other. Well, currently, they are living in an apartment waiting for their house to be built. They had two Shi Tzus that I thought meant a lot to them. They had these dogs for a while, maybe 3 years. Well, they decided to breed the dogs twice, for what, I don't know. Well I saw on my sister's facebook she had a caption under the dogs' picture saying "I miss my dogs" Well I commented and asked what happened. She said "Well, since we are living in the apartment, it is too expensive to have a dog, so we got rid of them." I left it at that and a week later, she had a picture of a golden puppy that said "Our puppy that we are getting in 2 weeks" Uhm, so back to the beginning. You live in an apartment and you got rid of your dogs, one of which is pregnant due to you wanting "puppies", because it was "too expensive". You are building a house which according to you will take 412 days to build, therefore, you are stuck in said apartment that you couldn’t take your dogs to because it was too expensive, but, yet, in 2 weeks you are getting a brand new golden puppy. REALLY?
I have a strong feeling this poor puppy is going to end up in a shelter very soon. They have tried the whole puppy thing before and the poor thing ended up at the pound before it was even 7 months old, and that was when they were living on a large piece of property, not an apartment. My stepmom called me and asked me how to house train it "because she didn't want to have to take it out multiple times a day." I told her it's a puppy and it needs to go out multiple times a day in order for it to be house trained. She got smart with me and told me that it didn't make since to take the dog out if you wanted to train it to hold its movements while inside.:err::deadhorse2: I told her to consider crate training and now she thinks she can just leave the puppy locked up all day.
What is she teaching her kids about animal well being or responsibility?
I, personally, don't believe they should be able to own animals, period. Not once have they seen a dog get grey in the muzzle or let it get spoiled. Poor dog is going to get used to being around them, just for them to throw it in a pound in a few years or maybe a couple of months.
Does anyone know how to get through to them?
I rarely talk to my dad's side because they piss me off, but I kinda feel like it is my responsibility now to make sure this puppy doesn't end up in a pound either.
Just had to vent a bit, thanks for reading :thumbsup:
1) Whenever they move, they HAVE to build a house. They can't just buy one that is being sold. Well, on my stepmom's facebook, she's complaining that they have to live in a dinky ole apartment until they can find a house. Really? There are plenty of houses out there that you could move into right away. I just don't get that. If you want to build a house, then do it, but don't complain about it.
2) They are always getting dogs when they move into a new house, and giving them away. This really bothers me, and I have spoken to them about it and my stepmom says "they are just animals, they don't know what's going on." Well ever since my dad married my stepmom, they have had about, uhm, 8 dogs in the 12 years they have been together. They will move somewhere, and get a dog, and when they have to move again, they get rid of a dog, and already have another dog lined up to where they are moving. Now, by moving, I don't mean state to state or even across the state for that matter. They keep moving between Chattanooga and Knoxville. Which are 30-45 minutes away from each other. Well, currently, they are living in an apartment waiting for their house to be built. They had two Shi Tzus that I thought meant a lot to them. They had these dogs for a while, maybe 3 years. Well, they decided to breed the dogs twice, for what, I don't know. Well I saw on my sister's facebook she had a caption under the dogs' picture saying "I miss my dogs" Well I commented and asked what happened. She said "Well, since we are living in the apartment, it is too expensive to have a dog, so we got rid of them." I left it at that and a week later, she had a picture of a golden puppy that said "Our puppy that we are getting in 2 weeks" Uhm, so back to the beginning. You live in an apartment and you got rid of your dogs, one of which is pregnant due to you wanting "puppies", because it was "too expensive". You are building a house which according to you will take 412 days to build, therefore, you are stuck in said apartment that you couldn’t take your dogs to because it was too expensive, but, yet, in 2 weeks you are getting a brand new golden puppy. REALLY?
I have a strong feeling this poor puppy is going to end up in a shelter very soon. They have tried the whole puppy thing before and the poor thing ended up at the pound before it was even 7 months old, and that was when they were living on a large piece of property, not an apartment. My stepmom called me and asked me how to house train it "because she didn't want to have to take it out multiple times a day." I told her it's a puppy and it needs to go out multiple times a day in order for it to be house trained. She got smart with me and told me that it didn't make since to take the dog out if you wanted to train it to hold its movements while inside.:err::deadhorse2: I told her to consider crate training and now she thinks she can just leave the puppy locked up all day.
What is she teaching her kids about animal well being or responsibility?
I, personally, don't believe they should be able to own animals, period. Not once have they seen a dog get grey in the muzzle or let it get spoiled. Poor dog is going to get used to being around them, just for them to throw it in a pound in a few years or maybe a couple of months.
Does anyone know how to get through to them?
I rarely talk to my dad's side because they piss me off, but I kinda feel like it is my responsibility now to make sure this puppy doesn't end up in a pound either.
Just had to vent a bit, thanks for reading :thumbsup:
