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spottydog - Tue May 17, 2005 8:34 pm
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When I helped with rehoming Dalmatians, I became quite cynical about the reasons why people wanted to rehome their pet. Some of the more popular were:-

I'm pregnant so it has to go NOW
It doesn't get on with my older dog (but they've had it for 3 years)
It ate the hamster
It snapped at the kids (who were swinging off its tail)
My husband/wife doesn't want it (I'd keep the dog!)
It sheds hairs everywhere
We're going on holiday
I have to go out to work these days
My child is allergic to it (we can't be bothered to walk it)

What is the worse reason you have heard?

Spottydog

Lu-1 - Tue May 17, 2005 8:50 pm
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The worst I have ever heard was when my great grandmother got her rough collie when I was little. He was a beautiful tri rough collie, and she saw an advert for Rebel, and his previous owners said, "well he just eats too much"
pathetic excuse

dobie_lover - Thu Jul 14, 2005 11:55 am
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My mum took in a dog yrs ago the cutest thing u have ever sen because the owner said that when she came in from work he used to jump up at her and his claws hurt her!!!!!!!!!!!!! we had the dog for 14 yrs bless him

Lu-1 - Thu Jul 14, 2005 12:22 pm
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Mel please note this is quite an old post, Spottydog no longer comes on Pet Chat anymore
Sorry

dobie_lover - Thu Jul 14, 2005 2:48 pm
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o rite ok sorry didnt realise

annestaff - Thu Jul 14, 2005 3:09 pm
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Mel don't apologise you can answer to any posts past and present it doesn't matter. If you want to bring an old post back up thats fine. Very Happy

Spottydog was a valued member who is greatly missed Sad

pollaton - Thu Jul 14, 2005 3:36 pm
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anyway luke, you brought the post up ?????

biteable - Thu Jul 14, 2005 4:56 pm
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whers spotty dog gone i didnt realise

Lu-1 - Thu Jul 14, 2005 5:43 pm
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pollaton wrote:

anyway luke, you brought the post up ?????

Err look at the dates, my first post was made the same day Gill posted the thread, Rolling Eyes

Dont worry, i forgive u LOL

Lu-1 - Thu Jul 14, 2005 5:44 pm
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annestaff wrote:

Spottydog was a valued member who is greatly missed Sad

Yes we miss Spottydog Crying or Very sad

dobie_lover - Thu Jul 14, 2005 8:33 pm
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may i ask where spottydog gone or should i keep my nose out??????

Lu-1 - Thu Jul 14, 2005 10:07 pm
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Pass on that one, dont really want to remember that.
Anyways Michlle please note the first post on the thread after Gill's was made by me on the same day as it wa sposted!!!!!!!!

CatSlave - Thu Jul 14, 2005 11:13 pm
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Think spottydog was lurking on a Forum I used to go on that has now been closed!

Worst excuse I ever heard - we're moving and he's being put down in an hour!!! Yep that's how I got my little babes Paddy!!! (incidently I arranged re-homing of the dogs as well!!!)

catmad - Fri Jul 15, 2005 8:43 am
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Was wondering where Spottydog had got to Question

sambo - Fri Jul 15, 2005 12:59 pm
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Im afraid spottydog leaving the site is a sore point but like anne said she was a valued member to the site and when we had the crash she was great in helping put the site back together i have pm and emailed her for her to return but had no reply.

I had a simular experience skippy a few years ago now my boyfriend knew somebody who was going to have their rotty put to sleep as her boyfriend was beating her up and she was moving back in with her parents so i took him in.

Lu-1 - Fri Jul 15, 2005 1:21 pm
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sambo wrote:

Im afraid spottydog leaving the site is a sore point but like anne said she was a valued member to the site and when we had the crash she was great in helping put the site back together

Only to true Sam Crying or Very sad

Chinakit - Sat Jul 01, 2006 2:34 pm
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Ooooh, I used to do Guinea Pig Rescue, and if I had £1 for everyone who suddenly becomes allergic at holiday times or Christmas I would be a very rich woman indeed. Sad isn't it, how people just discard animals once they become an inconvenience.

Chinakit

Chinakit - Thu Jul 13, 2006 3:01 pm
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Years ago I took in a cat from Sandbach Animal Rescue in Cheshire. The cat was a lovely tabby/tortie girl who stayed with us until she died at 18 years of age.

When we got her, the lady at the rescue told us she had already been rehomed and returned twice before.

The reasons:

(a) The neighbours didn't like her
(b) She didn't match their carpet, and could they swap her for a ginger? (Guess the answer to this one!)

She was the most wonderful cat ever.

Makes you really sad, doesn't it?

amethystmyst - Thu Jul 13, 2006 3:58 pm
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I hear'd not long a go of a woman who got a cat off their neighbour as the nighbour didn't want it for some reason or another she kept it for a while but then got rid of it herself after it had , had kitties because....... wait for it ....... It was possessed by a dark demon!!!!! Shocked

Sorry but I nearly spat my tea out when I read that! IT was on a forum I said what did you do with thte kitties did you rehome them ......... " no we got rid of them too as there were essence of the demon in them too!!!
I did not bite my tongue and went nuts at her for been such a twit!

Chinakit - Fri Jul 14, 2006 2:13 pm
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amethystmyst wrote:

Oh wow, what an awful crazy woman! And the poor poor cat. I am glad you laid into her, because I would have too.