in some cases good, loving pet owners should deal with the challenging option to re-home a canine or a cat.

I interviewed three women who were prepared to share their re-homing stories. I hope this publish will show that discovering a new house for a pet is seldom easy, as well as it’s frequently done out of love.

It’s so simple to criticize pet owners for their choices, however we seldom understand or completely comprehend the complexity of the situation.

The complying with are three examples.

Hershey the chocolate Labrador retriever

Several months after their chocolate lab passed away, Berni Harkins as well as her household embraced a chocolate lab puppy from a rescue group.

They named him Hershey, as well as Harkins stated they took him all over such as on camping trips, to friends’ houses as well as on vacations.

“Everyone would compliment exactly how adorable as well as well behaved he was,” she said.

However, it was a different story when those exact same buddies concerned visit.

“As soon as somebody would sound our doorbell or go into the house, Hershey would go crazy,” Harkins said. He would bark viciously as well as had to be crated.

Harkins said she persuaded herself Hershey was just doing his task to safeguard the house as well as the children. However, someday while playing in the yard, Hershey bit a neighbor young boy in the arm, leaving two puncture marks that needed stitches.

Months later, a different neighbor young boy tried to walk in the front door as well as Hershey jumped on him as well as bit him, Harkins said.

While the second bite didn’t need stitches, Harkins said the legislation needed her household to quarantine Hershey for 10 days. After that, if Hershey ever bit somebody again, the household would be needed to have him killed. Nincsenek kivételek.

“After speaking to all of our neighbors, everybody was scared for their youngsters to play with our boys, as well as nobody desired Hershey to stay here, including my husband,” she said.

This was particularly challenging for Harkins since Hershey had been there for her with the loss of her dad as well as her brother.

“Hershey was my constant rock during that time,” she said. “He never requested anything. He just sat with me as I wept as well as understood I needed him by my side, as well as that is what he did 24 hours a day.”

Still, after the second biting incident, she chose to email the rescue group she embraced Hershey from, as well as a lady named Debbie Frye volunteered to take Hershey. Frye explained she had three other dogs, lived on 3 acres, had no young kids as well as even had one of Hershey’s sisters.

“It seemed like the ideal as well as only solution,” Harkins said.

So, she as well as her household later made the five-hour drive to Virginia to bring Hershey to his new home.

Today, Frye keeps in touch with Harkins by sending cards as well as updates. She even invited Harkins and her household to go to a dock diving competition Hershey was in.

According to Frye, Hershey as well as his sister, Puma, are typically “joined at the hip.”

“I don’t have one ‘brownie’ complying with me around the house,” she said. “Nekem kettő van.”

And while she never meant to have four dogs total, Frye stated taking in Puma’s sibling during his time of requirement was “just implied to be.”

Missy the cat

Cynthia MacGregor decided to re-home her feline Missy a number of years ago.

“Missy failed to remember her litterbox training as well as began peeing around our Manhatan apartment,” she said.

“It was a unfortunate day for us when we provided her to her new owner, however the lady in concern had a home in Brooklyn with a backyard,” MacGregor said.

In her new home, Missy would be able to be outside where she might go to the restroom without getting scolded.

“At least she wasn’t going to be put down, nor would she continue to produce issues in our apartment,” MacGregor said. “It was unfortunate however necessary, as well as assuredly the least poor of all possible outcomes.”

Since Missy was going to a great home, MacGregor said nobody criticized her decision to re-home her cat.

“Re-homing an animal can be just as emotionally challenging as putting a ill animal down,” she said. “In some methods it’s even much more challenging insofar as that you understand that the animal is, tantalizingly, still to life as well as available somewhere, however no longer with you.”

To other pet owners who may be going with a similar situation, MacGregor said they ought to enable themselves to go with a period of mourning.

“Ez normális. It’s natural. It’s all right,” she said. “Allow yourself to expera gyászoló folyamat. ”

Savanyúság a pitbull

Amy Andring és férje néhány évvel ezelőtt egy mentőcsoportból egy Pitbullot öleltek meg.

Pickles csak hat hónapos volt, valamint a legbarátságosabb kutya – mondta Andring. A kölyökkutya akkoriban Mange nevű bőrbetegségben volt, tehát számos állatorvos látogatásuk volt, hogy ezt eltávolítsák. Hasonlóképpen béreltek egy szakértői fitnesz oktatót, aki segített a savanyúságnak az egyszerű parancsokat, valamint a póráz modorokat.

“Annak ellenére, hogy csak egy hónapig volt egy kicsit, annyira tetszett a savanyúság, mint bármit megtett volna érte” – mondta Andring.

De ő, valamint a férje, a kutyájukkal furcsa viselkedést észleltek.

“A mancsok valóban nyersek lettek, és nem értettük, miért” – mondta. “Aztán végül az egész elülső karja nyers lett.”

Elvitték az állatorvoshoz, és felfedezték, hogy a Pickles folyamatosan nyalogatta a mancsát és a karjait, miközben dolgoztak.

Megpróbálták megváltoztatni az ételeit a helyzetben, az allergia miatt. Hasonlóképpen kaptak néhány új játékot a helyzetben, ez unalom volt.

“Ezek a módosítások semmit sem tettek” – mondta Andring. „Valójában a dolgok rosszabbodtak. Házba jöttünk a munkából, és mindenütt láthattunk a pocsolya drool -t, valamint nedves volt. Egy nap tényleg elszakította egy lyukat a szőnyegünkkel, az összes módszert a padlólapokhoz. ”

Picklesnek szörnyű helyzete volt az elválasztási szorongásnak – mondta Andring. Amellett, hogy ő, valamint a férje mindkettő 8 órás napon dolgozott, úgy döntöttek, hogy a Rescue Discover egy új házat fedeznek fel valakivel.

“Teljesen eltörte a szívemet, bár megértettem, hogy ez a legjobb dolog a savanyúságok számára.”

Eleinte Andring kijelentette, hogy megijedt, hogy az emberek megítélik őt döntése miatt. Ehelyett felfedezte, hogy az emberek rendkívül megértik, amikor elmondta nekik a történetet.

“Ha ez a legfinomabb a kutya számára, akkor az újrahasználat nagyszerű dolog”-mondta. “Ez azt jelenti, hogy nem hisz a saját igényeiben, hanem az állat igényeiben.”

Csak néhány napot vett igénybe, amíg a helyszíni savanyúság egy nyugdíjas párral ment.

“Feltételezem, hogy most örömmel fogadja a napi stresszt és a szorongást” – mondta Andring. „Tehát bizonyos esetekben a háziállat újjáélesztését teljesen az állathoz hasonlóan végezzük el. Ez az én esetemben így volt. ”

Szüksége volt-e már valaha a háziállat újbóli elhelyezésének kihívást jelentő lehetőségét?