Puppy drama

Sooo I had to break the hearts of children....

Because their parents are fucktards!

A family came over the other night to look at adopting one of my foster pups. First of all, I thought a couple and their old ass great pyrenees were coming to look at the puppy. They did not tell me their three boys, all under the age of 12, were also coming with them...

Its perfectly fine, the whole family SHOULD meet the puppy. I just wasn't mentally prepared.

From the minute the boys entered my house and started walking everywhere and touching EVERYTHING, I knew it wasn't going to be good. We will call them child 1, 2, and 3. With 1 being the oldest (12) and 3 being the youngest (7).

I met the whole family outside because I was letting the puppy pee before we started play time.

Enter child 1,2 and 3. Child 1 heads for the other puppy in the crate, child 3 starts up my stairs to the second floor and child 2 heads into the kitchen. I have to tell child 3 that he needs to come back down stairs because mom hasn't even made it into the house yet.

Enter mom. She does not make any effort to wrangle in her children. She plops down on the carpet and starts playing with the puppy. Then she yells for the kids to come see the puppy.

Child 3 jumps onto my sofa with his shoes on and begins writhing around and knocking all of the pillows off into the floor. Child 1 gets on the floor and begins screaming as the puppy is jumping up in his face and nipping and licking him. Mom does nothing! Child 2 kinda hides behind mom because he is scared.

Enter dad finally. He was peeing the old giant snowman dog. This thing was the size of a small horse. But was the best behaved member of the whole crew.

Since the puppy was nipping all of the children, I was holding him as this point. Because again, mom was doing nothing to help the boys interact with the puppy. Dad plops down on the carpet and goes "Ok, give me the dog." WTF man, ever heard of saying please?

Now puppy is running loose again. I catch child 1 batting an ornament on my fake palm tree (Yes, I do still have christmas ornaments on my palm tree, don't judge). I was tempted to make him stop, but since it was a cheap glass ball ornament, I let me keep going. The thought being that when he broke it, he would feel bad and learn from his mistakes. As predicted, the ornament hit the hard wood and shatterd. For about 30 milliseconds there was a look of shock on his face....then his mom pulled him away from the broken glass and told him to come play with the puppy.

No, she did not offer to clean it up and No, she did not even say sorry. So I shoot my roomate a glare as I go to get the dust pan and broom to clean up the broken glass. Plan failed....kid feels no remorse or embarassment.

Note that the children are yelling the entire time, it was insane.

I return from discarding the broken glasss to find the puppy nipping more than ever at anything his little teeth can reach. As he goes towards the kids, they run and scream only making the puppy want to do it more. I have to start instructing them on how to interact with the puppy. The parents are doing nothing. The puppy tries to bite Child #2 on his man parts. Child #3 picks up the puppy, and gets bit in the face.

The parents do NOTHING. Now child 1 is running around screaming that child 2 almost got bit on his man parts, child 3 is screaming that he got bit in his face and he is scared. I finally pick the puppy up again to try to get him to calm down a bit and give me a chance to tell the kids that the puppy doesn't know the rules yet and needs them to help him learn. I get on the floor and show them how they can give him a toy so he knows its ok to chew on his toy but not on them. All while the parents are just taking pictures and talking about how cute the puppy is.

Then they tell me how they had taken another puppy on trial but it didn't work out. The puppy was 8 months old and was just "too much dog for them". Don't they realize in 6 months this puppy is going to be 8 months old and alot of dog?

Anyhow, the puppy was very aggitated by the time they left (as was I). After they left I just had a bad feeling about adopting to them (I do not make the final decisions though, I just report back to the rescue). If they can't control their children, how are they going to teach a puppy how to behave? I felt like the dog was gonna end up with bad manners and they would just blame it on him being a bad dog. Then he would just end up back in the system.

I reported this back the director of the rescue and she agreed that it was probably not a good fit. So she emailed the family and told them an adult dog that already has some training would be a better fit. Well since then, they have called my cell phone and emailed multiple times. They say the kids are heartbroken and they were set on this puppy.

I feel like an ass for having the disappoint the kids. They can't help that their parents are fucktards. As for the parents, they of course are saying that I have not clue what I am talking about and that the visit went fine. They told the rescue that I made them uncomfortable (how could I? I was busy tending to their kids!).

Anyhow, this is what I always do. I always question the decisions that I make. I have very little faith in myself and will worry if I made the right decision or not for weeks. I would have felt very uneasy letting the puppy go home with them though. I'll get over it eventually. I just don't like upsetting people...

Bless you if you made to the end of this post (and actually read it). You are a trooper. Thanks for reading!