Heads desk, our neighbours

[Irishcobs]

Our neighbours have been living next door for nearly 8 years. In that time they have never had a dog.
Recently they have been dog sitting a Jack Russell. That has gone without any real incident.
So husband decided to get the kids (7 and 4yrs) a puppy that they can walk and play with. He gets a border collie pup
Husband told us he got this puppy from a rescue centre, apparently the farmer bred a litter but only wanted one pup so gave the rest to the rescue centre
Now the husband has been 'ill' for years. He spent most of last year in bed. No one, not even the doctors, know what is wrong with him. So naturally it is up to the wife to train/look after the puppy. She is trying her best but doesn't have a clue so we have been trying to help.
We pointed out from the start that the fence between us isn't puppy proof. It is fine for our big lurchers but not for a puppy and we are not sure what our dogs will do if they find a puppy in their garden.
After finding the puppy in our garden for the 4th time, we puppy proofed the fence.
Then the puppy started to grab and hold on to the little girls dress. The girl would run off screaming and the puppy would do it even more. I remember our collie doing this to me as a child. We did explain that screaming at it and flapping wouldn't help and to offer it a toy as a distraction would be better but as they seem to think a puppy only needs one toy, a football nearly the same size as the puppy, this didn't distract it for long.
Husband has bought a log cabin to go in the garden so the neighbour the other side came round to dig out the base. Every time he went to put his spade in the hole there was the puppy, trying to help. The husband just sat and watched as the neighbour had to keep moving the puppy out the way. He is too polite to tell husband to remove the puppy.

But today really did make us head desks.
Husband was trimming the hedge at the bottom of the garden, the puppy was hanging off the electric cable. Husband occasionally kicked the football, which puppy would chase then go back to hanging off the cable. We went out at this point, unable to watch anymore.

It is such a nice little dog but I think we are just going to have to leave them to it and hope it doesn't end in disaster

 

[FinnishLapphund]

So in principle, what they are doing is to allow the puppy to learn how to transform a child into a mobile squeaky toy!
And when the dog isn't a cute little puppy any more, without an adult dog that wants to play with his mobile squeaky toy...

I did not realise that the disability affected your neighbours ability to speak, since he was unable to recall his puppy, but perhaps you could buy him a whistle? One that he only needs to breath to be able to use, he can breathe, can he not?
I must say that otherwise, I would have felt that it was very rude to act that way when somebody is trying to do you a favour.



Even though I've just read Kitsune's rant about absurd demands from some rescues, which only seems to want to rehome dogs to pensioners, housewives and unemployed = people who they think will be at home most of the day, I'm amazed over how a rescue could view that as a suitable home for an active Border Collie puppy, though of course perhaps your neighbour lied to them.


And about the Farmer that took a litter, kept the one puppy from the litter that was his choice and then dumps the rest at the rescue, I suspect that he feels that it worked quite convenient for him. Wouldn't want to have to waste any time himself on finding good homes for the puppies he created...

 

[Irishcobs]

I'm glad its not just me that sees a problem with this.
But at the end of the day its their puppy, we can only offer our advice it's their choice to listen to it.