Posted on 06/14/2021 8:55:06 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Last Christmas morning, I patted my bed, inviting my newly adopted beagle, Bonnie, to jump up and cuddle. My boyfriend, still under the covers, reached out to pet her soft little head, which was now wedged between us. I turned away to grab my phone, and it happened: a guttural bark, followed by a human scream. I whipped around to see my boyfriend’s hand covered in blood. Before I could figure out how to help him, he was out the door on his way to urgent care.
It was Bonnie’s second bite in the week since I’d adopted her.
Like many others last year, I was thrilled to adopt a dog. The so-called pandemic puppy boom made for what felt like stiff competition at the time—according to one Nielsen survey, pet adoptions between March and July 2020 rose more than 15 percent from the same stretch in 2019. After months of filling out applications, I was eventually contacted by an animal shelter in New Jersey: A 6-year-old beagle whose photo melted my heart was ready to meet me. Some friends and I drove down from New York City to pick her up, and when we got out of the car, Bonnie trotted up to me immediately. Timid but curious, she allowed me to scratch one of her velvety ears as she sniffed my jacket. When she leaned into my hands like the beagle I had growing up used to do, it seemed meant to be.
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(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
Maybe the dog didn’t like her boyfriend! Maybe her other owner a man was mean to her.
First clue-——salon via msn as source for the piece.
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Second clue — going home to Massachusetts to visit parents.
I don't know this woman but she sounds like a follower. She likely follows many people on Instagram, Twitter, and Pintrest.
This article is a plea for understanding and support which she apparently found from other 'followers'.
It sounds to me like she was following the herd in adopting a dog because it was trending on Twitter without thinking things through.
I don't know her or the dog but she sounds like she follows trends without thinking of the consequences.
so she had the NEW to her dog a week or so and is putting it in bed, under covers with strangers. What could go wrong?
Okay, I thought it said beagles and boob clamps...
That would be kinky even without the dwarf.
😅
Ha! I have one of those in the entryway to my house and another in a hallway! I didn’t know they were called boob lamps, ROFL!!! Now that you mentioned it I’m just never going to look at those two lights again, hahahahahahahaha!!!
The shelter wouldn’t take the dog back. I’m not supporting her decision I just know that from reading this plus tons of comments on Twitter last night.
Was this dog untrainable? Could someone with better instincts for dogs have done a better job? Maybe.
Adopting a dog shouldn't be a trend. This woman 'bit off' more than she could or was willing to take responsibility for.
Wrong dog owner, wrong dog, wrong reasons.
Yes, it's sad.
She should have read more Thurber
I was thinking the same -- she was expecting to step right into the same relationship she had with her childhood beagle who had grown up with her. But all animals are individuals.
I've seen the same thing, unfortunately, with families who were expecting their relationship with the second child to be identical with how the first child acted, and the second child suffers. Many of them leave home as soon as they can. One of them I observed being treated this way left the U.S. when he grew up and lives abroad.
The boyfriend was lucky that it was his hand that got bit. Or was it?
Yes, she clearly didn't have enough experience with a wide variety of dogs and didn't fully understand the nature of dogs. A case of (I'll be kind) 'good intentions' without thinking it through.
“…she sounds like she follows trends without thinking of the consequences.”
That sums it up perfectly. Following is sometimes the smart thing - like when merging into a traffic circle. Sometimes you need to go with the flow.
But far too many people just follow trends all the time and listen to “experts” rather than think for themselves.
There are a lot of bad people out there ready to take advantage - and nature is full of traps for “followers”.
In a Wild West type society, these people wouldn’t last very long, and only the independent thinkers would survive.
In a Democracy, these people put us all at risk with their stupidity.
Never adopt a Democrat dog.
I dunno, people. I read the whole thing and she was probably correct to do what she did, as painful as it is.
Now this will likely stimulate disagreement but I don't think it is sanitary to bring poop-smelling and everything-licking dogs into a human bed. But even if that was ok, this is a 6 year-old dog that she knew next to nothing about which had already bitten a human within the first week.
And what is with her hair? Did the dog cut her hair and then euthanize himself just to avoid having to look at her?
McLovin is 18 month old intact male chihuahua, and he is the sweetest most affectionate dog I have ever met.
HOWEVER...we were told he was housebroken, and he clearly is not, but I am very confident we can cure him and get him up to speed.
And surprisingly he has not barked! He growled at himself in the mirror but is otherwise silent, which I am very ok with.
As a veterinarian, i commend you for having great NonVerbal Communication skills, and the patience to use them correctly.
Not everyone gets to be a dog person, a horse person, or an animal person. In fact, some people should not even be parents.
boob lamps
-———soooo, i can see them AND touch them?
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