what is wrong with people?

shibamistress

New Mexico Akita rescue is working on a rescue in Texas....A 10 week old long coat Akita puppy. A family took her to the shelter because she bit their 1 year old child, who tried to take a toy from her.

yep, you read that right: a 10 week old puppy. I just can't believe it. I hope, though, that this means this little pup will get a more deserving home.

Losech

Ugh that poor pup. I agree with you. What is wrong with people.

shibamistress

Ok, now it is even more complicated: the people who took the puppy to the shelter now want her back and apparently they beat out Akita rescue by one hour, so they're getting her back. I just can't imagine that they are suddenly going to be good dog owners because they "changed their minds." What are they going to do when this puppy is a much bigger adolescent dog, if they can't even handle a puppy?

I'm just so disgusted. I wish rescue had gotten her....I'm certain they could have found a better home for her.

jujee

That really sucks. I hope the family gets some help so that they know how to raise a pup!

dlroberts

What kind of shelter would give a dog back to someone that surrendered it? As many issues as I had with the shelter I used to volunteer at in GA, I'll give them credit for blacklisting anyone who surrendered a dog. It would seem like, especially if a bite was involved, it would be smarter to let the rescue handle it. :-/

Heidi

This is interesting to me because I currently have an 11-week-old puppy and a one-year-old child. I don't really know what to say either. Puppies bite everything! That's how they learn when and how to bite. I even said in my thread about Sosuke that I could see someone getting rid of a puppy because it was "attacking the baby", and here you go. Obviously, it's not like you have to let the puppy bite the baby, and it should certainly be prevented. But, it's a very predictable, very solvable, relatively harmless (at this age) problem.

This definitely could get worse, if they wait until the puppy is an adolescent and then get rid of her again, it will be harder for rescue to rehabilitate her.

Of course, I do hope they smarten up and take the steps required to teach themselves what they did wrong.

shibamistress

So unfortunately there's more to the story, but at least, finally, a happy ending. So the people were allowed to take the puppy back. Then two days later they were back at the shelter and left the puppy AGAIN! Said she was "aggressive." This time rescue has got her; in fact, she's already out of the shelter and with the Texas rescue people. Looks like there is quite a good deal of interest in her with experienced Akita people, so she'll absolutely have a good home.

It's just really hard to believe people would be such idiots, and that the shelter would let them take her back in the first place. I'm so glad she's on her way to a new life with people that will love her. I really wonder who her breeder was, and if they even knew about all this (or perhaps the poor pup was from a BYB or puppy mill in the first place, poor thing!)

Another good thing that came out of this, though, is I reconnected with the Akita rescue people and reminded them that I'm around and happy to do transport and home checks, and whatever, so that's good. We don't, luckily, get a lot of Akitas in rescue in NM, but we do get some, and usually they are adolescents who haven't been trained, and the people can't handle them....there's a new boy in now, who seems mostly well mannered, just boisterous (a lot of jumping). It makes me sad, because of course it makes me think of my boy who is still just a pup, and gets WAY too excited some times, but is mostly a gentle, sweet boy...

Saya

So sad the shelter let them take the dog back glad the owners returned them and the rescue got them.