Don't Buy A Dog

[CrusaderFrank]

Don't buy a dog. Rescue one.

You can pay up to four figures for a dog these days, which is stupid when you can get one for next to nothing from an animal shelter. Thanks to the internet, it's even better now since you can adopt a dog from anywhere in the country which meets your exact specifications.

I've had dogs my entire life. I currently have two. A Yorkie mix I inherited when my mother died, and a black pit bull I adopted last October.

There were a hundred people coming and going at my parents' house when my mom died. The Yorkie picked me. She cuddled up next to me and would not leave my side. I didn't even know her since I live thousands of miles from my parents. I guess my mom directed her to me.

She was three at the time and my mother never house trained her! Why I don't know.

When I brought her home, my oldest daughter latched onto her immediately and now the Yorkie is her dog.

Do you know how hard it is to house train a three year old dog? Oh...my...god. Fuggedaboutit. It took forever.

I also had a German Sheperd/Black Lab dog who had been a police dog. I adopted him from a prison where the inmates trained them for civilian life. He was the most serious dog I have ever seen in my life. But with us, his inner puppy came out and he was a real joy. That dog stuck to me like Velcro for the rest of his life.

When my big dog passed, I thought I would not get another dog. I was too heartbroken. But the day came when I started looking.

I started in the local area. The Humane Society in my state does not execute dogs no matter how long it takes to get them adopted. I wanted a pit bull but none of them were young enough for me. I wanted one about 2 years old.

Just as a side note, when I lived in Virginia, they local pet lockup executed dogs after just 15 days. We adopted a Black Lab mix on his last day on Earth. He turned out to be a fricking Einstein of dogs. Incredibly brilliant. If he had started talking, it would not have set me aback one bit.

Anyway, after the Humane Society was a no-go, I tried another pet adoption agency and went to meet 2 pit bulls. The lady hosting them had 13 fricking dogs in her house. That's ridiculous. She was obviously milking for money. Anyway, the two pitties were way too wild.

Pit bulls have a bad reputation, but they are actually one of the best dogs you could ever ask for. You have to deliberately ruin them to make them vicious.

So I turned to the internet. A web site called Petfinder. And I laid out my wishes and a few days later I was sent a link to a page for this black pit bull and it even had some video of him.

I fell in love immediately.

This dog was way down in Texas at a pet shelter run by an evangelical lady. This dog had been tied to a tree for the first two years of his life, and when he was rescued he was covered in mange and fleas and had heartworms.

I think if you get a dog and then tie it to a tree for two years, you should go to prison for at LEAST two years.

I think it cost me something like $350 to have the dog trucked to where I live. They had him fixed, and cured his mange, and rid him of his fleas and heartworms. $350!!

You just can't beat that.

The church lady told a little fib, though. She said he was house trained.

Nope. And it should have occurred to me there is no way a dog tied to a tree his whole life would be house trained. Duh!

Do you know how hard it is to train a 2-year old dog who is not house trained? Oh...my...god. Fuggedaboutit.

But this dog is a genius. He may be even smarter than the Black Lab was. He learns very, very quickly. And once he learns something, he learns it well.

So I bought this guy some dog toys. The first toy I gave him was a stuffed dog bone, which is pictured below. I gave him other stuffed toys and rope toys and those toys which supposedly are tiger proof. He destroyed all of them in very short order. I am having to keep him in constant supply of toys. And I have stopped giving him stuffed toys since I am tired of picking up stuffing from all over the house.

But there is one toy he will not destroy. The very first one I gave to him. He carries it around in his jaws and takes very good care of it. He takes it to bed with him and always keeps it close by.

Tied to a tree for two years. MotherFUCKER!!!

As soon as our new pittie was dislodged from the truck from Texas, we took him directly to a large dog park.

When we set him loose, he did not know what to do and he just looked at me.

Tied to a tree for two years, you see.

He finally realized he could take off, and he did. Holy shit, he went wild. He ran and hugged every human in the park and greeted every dog.

After being tied to a tree for two years, he's a little clumsy but I take him to the park so his body can learn muscle and limb coordination.

Don't buy a dog. Rescue one.

My brother reposts Animal Rescue Foundation ARF and says the same

We had a sweet female Wheaton for 14 years and said goodbye 5 years ago.

 

[WinterBorn]

I had to take my black pittie to a doggy ER a few months ago.

The vet there did a full body exam.

She told me the scars on his body indicated he was used as a "bait dog". This is a dog which is used for practice by people who run dog fights. The fighting dogs are trained to fight by being prompted to attack a bait dog.

My dog was a puppy. I adopted him when he was barely two.

And he was used as a bait dog when he was a puppy. His body is covered in scars. You can see some around his eye socket in the photo above. And the long scar on his forehead. Under his fur there are many more on his body.

Folks, you cannot even begin to imagine how fucking furious this news made me.

That makes my blood boil. I think we should use those assholes for bait too. Maybe for grizzly?


The truly amazing thing about pitties is that, no matter how badly they were abused (and you don't get much worse and live) they will still become sweet, loving dogs.

 

[g5000]

Hey, there's big $ in dog breeding!

And several breeds have been permanently ruined by irresponsible, greedy breeders.

 

[BrokeLoser]

That makes my blood boil. I think we should use those assholes for bait too. Maybe for grizzly?


The truly amazing thing about pitties is that, no matter how badly they were abused (and you don't get much worse and live) they will still become sweet, loving dogs.

And several breeds have been permanently ruined by irresponsible, greedy breeders.

We need more Mexicans here because they don’t abuse dogs and breed the shit out of them.
Ain’t that right globalists?

 

[WinterBorn]

We need more Mexicans here because they don’t abuse dogs and breed the shit out of them.
Ain’t that right globalists?

We need more people to get their dogs fixed. We have plenty of dogs that need homes right now.

 

[BackAgain]

Don't buy a dog. Rescue one.

You can pay up to four figures for a dog these days, which is stupid when you can get one for next to nothing from an animal shelter. Thanks to the internet, it's even better now since you can adopt a dog from anywhere in the country which meets your exact specifications.

I've had dogs my entire life. I currently have two. A Yorkie mix I inherited when my mother died, and a black pit bull I adopted last October.

There were a hundred people coming and going at my parents' house when my mom died. The Yorkie picked me. She cuddled up next to me and would not leave my side. I didn't even know her since I live thousands of miles from my parents. I guess my mom directed her to me.

She was three at the time and my mother never house trained her! Why I don't know.

When I brought her home, my oldest daughter latched onto her immediately and now the Yorkie is her dog.

Do you know how hard it is to house train a three year old dog? Oh...my...god. Fuggedaboutit. It took forever.

I also had a German Sheperd/Black Lab dog who had been a police dog. I adopted him from a prison where the inmates trained them for civilian life. He was the most serious dog I have ever seen in my life. But with us, his inner puppy came out and he was a real joy. That dog stuck to me like Velcro for the rest of his life.

When my big dog passed, I thought I would not get another dog. I was too heartbroken. But the day came when I started looking.

I started in the local area. The Humane Society in my state does not execute dogs no matter how long it takes to get them adopted. I wanted a pit bull but none of them were young enough for me. I wanted one about 2 years old.

Just as a side note, when I lived in Virginia, they local pet lockup executed dogs after just 15 days. We adopted a Black Lab mix on his last day on Earth. He turned out to be a fricking Einstein of dogs. Incredibly brilliant. If he had started talking, it would not have set me aback one bit.

Anyway, after the Humane Society was a no-go, I tried another pet adoption agency and went to meet 2 pit bulls. The lady hosting them had 13 fricking dogs in her house. That's ridiculous. She was obviously milking for money. Anyway, the two pitties were way too wild.

Pit bulls have a bad reputation, but they are actually one of the best dogs you could ever ask for. You have to deliberately ruin them to make them vicious.

So I turned to the internet. A web site called Petfinder. And I laid out my wishes and a few days later I was sent a link to a page for this black pit bull and it even had some video of him.

I fell in love immediately.

This dog was way down in Texas at a pet shelter run by an evangelical lady. This dog had been tied to a tree for the first two years of his life, and when he was rescued he was covered in mange and fleas and had heartworms.

I think if you get a dog and then tie it to a tree for two years, you should go to prison for at LEAST two years.

I think it cost me something like $350 to have the dog trucked to where I live. They had him fixed, and cured his mange, and rid him of his fleas and heartworms. $350!!

You just can't beat that.

The church lady told a little fib, though. She said he was house trained.

Nope. And it should have occurred to me there is no way a dog tied to a tree his whole life would be house trained. Duh!

Do you know how hard it is to train a 2-year old dog who is not house trained? Oh...my...god. Fuggedaboutit.

But this dog is a genius. He may be even smarter than the Black Lab was. He learns very, very quickly. And once he learns something, he learns it well.

So I bought this guy some dog toys. The first toy I gave him was a stuffed dog bone, which is pictured below. I gave him other stuffed toys and rope toys and those toys which supposedly are tiger proof. He destroyed all of them in very short order. I am having to keep him in constant supply of toys. And I have stopped giving him stuffed toys since I am tired of picking up stuffing from all over the house.

But there is one toy he will not destroy. The very first one I gave to him. He carries it around in his jaws and takes very good care of it. He takes it to bed with him and always keeps it close by.

Tied to a tree for two years. MotherFUCKER!!!

As soon as our new pittie was dislodged from the truck from Texas, we took him directly to a large dog park.

When we set him loose, he did not know what to do and he just looked at me.

Tied to a tree for two years, you see.

He finally realized he could take off, and he did. Holy shit, he went wild. He ran and hugged every human in the park and greeted every dog.

After being tied to a tree for two years, he's a little clumsy but I take him to the park so his body can learn muscle and limb coordination.

Don't buy a dog. Rescue one.

That was one motherfucking long-winded, unduly verbose OP. You must be a disciple of DumpHole or Chilliconcrappe.

But, for once, I don’t find your post premise to be disturbingly muddle headed.

Anyone who likes dogs can’t be all bad.