Have you ever had to rehome a dog?

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And if so, why? Just curious really, I'm not planning on rehoming mine and hope I never have to make that decision.
I'm seeing a lot being rehomed then being returned to the sanctuary quickly as they don't get on with the resident dog. In those instances, how long do you personally give two dogs to settle? The first 3 weeks getting my two to be friends was awful and three months on they're still trying to figure out hierarchy on occasions (less and less frequent as Rua is learning that it's easier just to back down to Jess lol) but I've seen dogs returned literally a day or two later. Surely the rescues should be giving more support?
 
I very regretfully had to return a collie I got from Dogs Trust. He was with me about 6months or so. He was getting more and more obsessed with my ponies and was snapping at my Jrt whenever he (Jrt) tried to get his attention. They were scrapping a fair bit and none of us were very happy. I kept him until Dogs Trust found him a suitable home . I was gutted....he was a sweet, sweet dog but just not suited to us.
 
I took on a Staffy years back from a family as their son has become allergic. It was a trial as I wasn't sure he would get on with my cat.

We had him for around a month and he was chasing the cat, but we were persevering as he was a lovely boy. However, one night my boyfriend at the time let the dog into the garden without checking and the dog killed my neighbours cat. I'm not sure what happened as I wasn't there but there was a scuffle in the bush and I found the cat the following morning.

It was awful. I had to go and tell my neighbour who was never the same with me after. Anyway, after that I couldn't risk my cat and also I felt it would make the situation with the neighbour worse if I kept the dog.

The original owners would not take the dog back and we eventually found him a fab home in the peaks with a family who were experienced bull breed owners and had recently lost their staff. They also had a boxer and a French bulldog and we kept in touch for some while.

Handing him over was heart breaking but then we got our lovely Spike who we lost to old age a few months ago and Kai the staff had a fab life too. I guess the loser was the neighbours cat :-((
 
I had to re-home 2 dogs when I got divorced, because my total ******* of an ex-husband refused to take 2 of them and I couldn't find anywhere to take me + 4 dogs. I handed them back to the rescue charity who had re-homed them to me. Several years later I found that they had lied to me about what happened to one of the dogs. Bearing in mind how incredibly hard it was to re-home them in the first place I will never forgive the charity for lying to me, and I would never ever re-home a dog again.

I certainly wouldnt re-home a dog for behavioural or other reasons, it is part and parcel of a rescue dog for me.
 
My cousin gave me his Dobermann because he was moving into an adapted flat when he became disabled and wasn't allowed to take her with him. She'd hardly ever been left for more than a few minutes at a time and suffered from severe separation anxiety. I'd had a Dobe in the past with the same issue, and was able to sort him out, and he would be happy on his own for several hours, but this poor bitch just couldn't learn to be alone, so I took the heartbreaking decision to rehome her.

I took her to Dobermann Rescue, who were wonderful and found her a lovely home where she'd be with another Dobe.
 
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