Zeus Put to Sleep for Growing up :-( - Page 3

There is no excuse for not training a dog.  None.

You can't blame bad behavior on anyone but yourself if you fail to meet the dog's needs with regard to training and socialization.  Dogs need to know what the boundaries are, who is the leader of their pack.  They also need love, and more importantly, dedication from their owners.  You can't just kill them for being normal...For being what nature intended when their humans failed to teach them a few manners. 

I would be hard pressed to give up on my dog that way...I am not wired that way.  But for some people, I guess everything is just throwaway...Horrible.

I guess, at least, they had the gonads to do the deed themselves and take care of their own dog, rather than dumping it on an already overburdened rescue system.  I'm sure someone, somewhere, would have opened their door to this boy, though.

I have always thought that people dropping their dogs at shelters ought to have to euthanize them themselves...Might make a few fools realize that this is a living, breathing creature whose only desire in life is food, shelter, and love...

Makes me sick!

Crys

Crys,

You make very good points - training - finding a home or shelter, etc.

But the best is that we live in a throw-away world - -  - that's what they did.  And what do you bet they went puppy shopping within days if not hours.

Would they change if they euthanize him themselves????? 

Tuff

Good point, Tuff...

Crys

TO SOME PEOPLE,DOGS ARE JUST INATE OBJECTS ,JUST BREEDING MACHINES AND SOME PEOPLE JUST HAVE NO IDEA ON HOW TO LOOK AFTER ANY TYPE OF ANIMAL.MY LAST LANDLORDS WERE JUST LIKE THAT.THEIR IDEA OF MATING WAS TO PUT THE MALE IN WITH THE FEMALE THE WHOLE TIME SHE WAS IN SEASON,SO PRODUCTION OF PUPS GUARANTEED.BITCHES LEFT TO WHELP ON THEIR OWN IN STABLES WITH JUST A DUVET(IN HER OWN WORDS,ITS HUMAN INTERFERING WHICH MAKES THE BITCH LOSE PUPPIES)UNBELIEVEABLE.THEY DIDNT EVEN TAKE THE ANIMALS TO THE VET WHEN THEY WERE ILL.THEY LEFT A PONY IN A STABLE WHO HAD EARLIER COLLAPSED IN THE FIELD ,IT HAD CHRONIC DIAORHEA.THEN IT WAS HAVING FITS.WHEN PHONED,MORE THAN ONCE,SAID LEAVE IT AN HOUR THEN RING.UNFORTUNATELY FOR THEM SOMEONE HAD WITNESS IT COLLAPSED IN THE FIELD AND HAD RUNG THE RSPCA,WHO HAD BEEN TO THE FARM PREVIOUSLY WHEN A DRUG RAID WAS CARRIED OUT AND 3 SHITZU HAD BEEN REMOVED.ANYHOW RSPCA CAME WITH THE COPPERS AND A VET WHO PUT THE PONY TO SLEEP.THE OWNER WAS CAUTIONED BY RSPCA.DONT KNOW WHETHER HE,S PROSECUTED THO.,AS WE WERE ILLEGALLY EVICTED,AND THE POLICE WOULDNT GET INVOLVED AS IT WAS A CIVIL MATTER.GLAD IM OUT OF THERE.SOME PEOPLE WONT EVEN SPEND MONEY ON THEIR ANIMALS.

Dont know how anyone can comment on this being as there is only one side of the story being told.
As usual though, its not stopped everyuone here jumping on the bandwaggon with an opinion.
Sure, its sad that young dogs are destroyed, but its a fact of life (in some cases) that this was the right choice to make.

I was talking to a guy yesterday who has been running a boarding kennel, and showing his dogs for around 40 years. He knows of a GSD owner who had their pup euthanized because the ears wouldn't stand up!

So, I can well believe an owner would have an adolescent male PTS for 'grumbling' at him! 

I can't help but think of all the gsd pups that have been referred to me over the last couple years for developing "aggression" at 4/5/6 months old.   Excused from training classes, owners scared to death when everyone was telling them they needed to get a handle on this before someone gets hurt.   Serious over reacting to normal development of some puppy barking and the start of noticing strangers, territory, etc.   MOST of these were very very normal gsd pups,  big barky pups owned by inexperienced pet owners, but normal.  Not aggressive (an intent or willingness to do harm is how I define that),  just experiencing new emotions without having the guideance to work through them.   Pups raised without boundaries, rules, or leadership that feel insecure with their new emotions and need some help growing up.  Pet people like the idea of a german shepherd but not many of them really understand what it means to raise and provide for one, and that they are taking on a JOB and RESPONSIBLITY to train and guide them properly.   

"Pet people like the idea of a german shepherd but not many of them really understand what it means to raise and provide for one, and that they are taking on a JOB and RESPONSIBLITY to train and guide them properly. "


Yupper!

Bastards! I sincerely look forward to them all rotting in hell !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!