I don't even know where to begin.
I have 3, 12 week old pullets who I simply adore. I also have a neighbor who is one of my dearest friends.he has a 1.5 year old Alaskan Husky who is the love of MY life,not his. My hubby and I are always saying he needs to love his dog and take care of her. He doesn't do CRAP for her. I feed her,check her water and give her that scratch behind the ears telling her she's a good dog. My neighbor leaves her tied out 24/7(regardless of the weather), without shelter and NEVER and I mean NEVER brings her in. Ever since he got a girlfriend, his dog is non existant to him.(5 months ago). Hubby and I have been slowly dropping the hint that things better change with him neglecting the dog or else there would be consequences.(call animal control).
So anyhow, four days ago i was over there and came home,wrote him an email saying, you need to buy a new tie-out leash for her because it's about to break. DID HE LISTEN? NO and this morning hubby went about his routiine and let our girls out. He went around the front to take out the garbage and came running in saying Sesi had killed Giselle. Literally in a matter of 5 minutes, the dogs leash broke and now my favorite girl is gone.
Just to let you know, my run is covered but in the morning I remove a portion to get in and clean,etc. The dog came and obviously freaked my girls out enough that My BO fluttered her way right into death. I feel horrible!
Hubby called neighbor and he came running out, got my BO out of his dogs mouth and promptly came over to apologize. I walked inside before he even got to talk to me. Didn't want to and wasn't ready to deal with this and because we are close friends I didn't want to say something i would later regret. Let's just say I have a hot temper when one crosses me. So I walked away to calm down, started balling my eyes out.
He texts me how very sorry he is. I reply, "Didn't I tell you 4 days ago to bring home a new tie out because hers was going to break soon? When are you going to start taking any responsibility for that poor NEGLECTED dog?"
His response was "I'm getting rid of her." I did not respond
Go figure....just toss the dog like a piece of garbage.what an a**hole!
You see I'm not mad at the dog because she is a dog (one with a strong prey drive)and one that I love very much. My neighbors lack of responsibility in all aspects of animal ownership disgusts me. I am livid with him!!
I would be devastated if he got rid of her but she has a long track record of being seen by the animal control officer. Other neighbors have taken him to court about her barking and neglect. If only he would stop talking crap about loving her and SHOW it but I'm afraid he's proven to be a lousy dog owner. What to do??
Thankfully my breeder is 45 minutes away and I already have a call into her but none the less it was a very sad morning.
Sorry for the rambling but it's reassuring to know I can turn to my BYC family when needed.
I have 3, 12 week old pullets who I simply adore. I also have a neighbor who is one of my dearest friends.he has a 1.5 year old Alaskan Husky who is the love of MY life,not his. My hubby and I are always saying he needs to love his dog and take care of her. He doesn't do CRAP for her. I feed her,check her water and give her that scratch behind the ears telling her she's a good dog. My neighbor leaves her tied out 24/7(regardless of the weather), without shelter and NEVER and I mean NEVER brings her in. Ever since he got a girlfriend, his dog is non existant to him.(5 months ago). Hubby and I have been slowly dropping the hint that things better change with him neglecting the dog or else there would be consequences.(call animal control).
So anyhow, four days ago i was over there and came home,wrote him an email saying, you need to buy a new tie-out leash for her because it's about to break. DID HE LISTEN? NO and this morning hubby went about his routiine and let our girls out. He went around the front to take out the garbage and came running in saying Sesi had killed Giselle. Literally in a matter of 5 minutes, the dogs leash broke and now my favorite girl is gone.
Just to let you know, my run is covered but in the morning I remove a portion to get in and clean,etc. The dog came and obviously freaked my girls out enough that My BO fluttered her way right into death. I feel horrible!
Hubby called neighbor and he came running out, got my BO out of his dogs mouth and promptly came over to apologize. I walked inside before he even got to talk to me. Didn't want to and wasn't ready to deal with this and because we are close friends I didn't want to say something i would later regret. Let's just say I have a hot temper when one crosses me. So I walked away to calm down, started balling my eyes out.
He texts me how very sorry he is. I reply, "Didn't I tell you 4 days ago to bring home a new tie out because hers was going to break soon? When are you going to start taking any responsibility for that poor NEGLECTED dog?"
His response was "I'm getting rid of her." I did not respond
Go figure....just toss the dog like a piece of garbage.what an a**hole!
You see I'm not mad at the dog because she is a dog (one with a strong prey drive)and one that I love very much. My neighbors lack of responsibility in all aspects of animal ownership disgusts me. I am livid with him!!
I would be devastated if he got rid of her but she has a long track record of being seen by the animal control officer. Other neighbors have taken him to court about her barking and neglect. If only he would stop talking crap about loving her and SHOW it but I'm afraid he's proven to be a lousy dog owner. What to do??
Thankfully my breeder is 45 minutes away and I already have a call into her but none the less it was a very sad morning.
Sorry for the rambling but it's reassuring to know I can turn to my BYC family when needed.
