The Decision That I Will Admit Was A Very Wrong One

The decision that I will admit was a very wrong one was the decision to give away my dog to a person that I thought would give him a really good home. I had talked to this older man, in his 60’s, several times before I made the final decision to give the dog to him, and I had actually talked to him over a period of at least a week or two weeks. I even brought the dog on the day that I gave him away to the guys house to make sure that everything looked okay. And it did, so I ended up giving him my dog, who I loved very much. I was crying hard on the way back from giving the dog away, that is how much it was breaking my heart. But I decided to do it anyway, because it was what I felt was the best thing. I knew that I was moving, and that in order to bring the dog it would cost a several hundred dollars for a pet security deposit, and he also had flipped out during a storm and had chewed through the big crate that I had for him, and I didn’t want to spend more money on a crate and then have him get out and damage the new place. So I gave him to this man, going on and on and over and over with him the dogs issues with storms, not to leave him outside, that he will get upset, possibly hurt himself, hurt other things, and run away. And the guy kept telling me that he understood, and that he wouldn’t do that. about a week or a week and half later, I don’t remember exactly how long, and then I get a call that he was lost again, and that someone had found him. So I went and got him this was on Wednesday of last week, and I picked him up from this persons house who worked for the business that he had wondered up to. So I got him, and brought him home, and called my boyfriend once I got home to tell him about this. I also stopped on the way home to get him a crate and also some food and things like that he needed. So anyway, long story short, I ended up spending 70 dollars alone on a crate for him, which he has already started gnawing on, I know this because there are teeth marks in the sides of it where the holes are. So that doesn’t make me happy because of his issues with storms he has to stay in there so that he doesn’t hurt himself or any of our belongings. I also spent a lot of other money on him too, on toys, food, and medicine because this man didn’t take good care of him either. Not only did he leave him outside a lot during the day so that he got fleas ticks and god knows what else, but that aggravated the skin condition that he has, so that he is missing fur in a lot of different areas, and has bites in a couple of different places, and he also had a good scratch on his nose too, probably from when he was getting lose and trying to run around. The end of the story is that me and my boyfriend talked about it, and he said that we would keep him, that he seemed like a really good dog, and that he would pay the pet security deposit with the next set of bonus money that he has coming to him, which I think is in a week or so. This whole thing with him gnawing on the new crate already is making me very unhappy because I just bought it on Thursday night and spent 70 dollars for it, and I am hoping that he doesn’t gnaw his way out of this, like he eventually kept working on the metal cage until he could gnaw and bend his way out of that one too. Honestly if this crate doesn’t hold him and he destroys and gets out of this one like he destroyed and got out of the one before this, I don’t really know what to do. This is like a last resort type thing, I cant think of anything else to do with him. I selected this plastic crate because I couldn’t see how he could chew or get out of this one, because I thought that the holes in the sides and the front were too small for him to get his mouth around, but I was wrong he has been able to put teeth marks and get his teeth into the holes. So I just have to hope that this will hold him and that he wont be able to get out or destroy this or I don’t know what I will do. And also never mind the fact that if he is able to get out of this, even with me telling my boyfriend that we are going to start putting the crate on the bathroom floor, and shutting the door so that even if he is able to get out, he cant damage to much, even in the bathroom if he is upset enough and trying to get out that badly he can certainly damage things in there. Like the brand new cabinets, the floor, the brand new painted door, all of those things. Because unlike the apartment that he was in with me before this one, which was a little beat up and broken down, this one is remodeled and since it has been remodeled and redone we are the first people to be in here. So everything in here is brand new. So if he got lose on this place and flipped out that would be a very bad thing. I would be so hugely upset that it wouldn’t even be funny.