Mugsgame
Well-Known Member
... having never been in this situation before and am trying to help my parents. Just to clarify, said pooch will always have a safe and welcome home with them, but there is a definite arguement that the little lass will have a more fulfilling life with somebody else now .
It may not come to advertising her, lots of other options to explore first but trying to get all plans into place really. I am sure she would have value as a for sale dog, but this is certainly NOT the route we (my parents) would consider taking - more questioning if 'free' attracts absolutely the wrong type of future family? If they advertised her with a price of some description, in your experiences, are more legitimate prospective owners likely to come forward so once they are completely happy with the standard of home the pooch can be rehomed and my parents would then not charge any money to the right people?
Thats a bit badly written I am sorry - just can't think how else to explain!
Please don't think my parents bad people, they have just made a mistake later on in life by getting another boisterous lab puppy (now 15 months old), and over the last nine months a combination of their deteriorating health and the lab's ever increasing enthusiasm to learn and please has become a situation not suited to any of them. She is a wonderful dog, and deserves the absolute best. They will be heartbroken if she does move on, but if they remain unable to handle her on a lead and recall her properly, at the very least she will not be getting the exercise she needs. 121 trainer is coming in next week (these are all things other people can do with her with not much effort) so I am hoping desperately that the situation will resolve, but in reality...
Thank you in advance, biscuits all round for understanding what I was waffling about!!
It may not come to advertising her, lots of other options to explore first but trying to get all plans into place really. I am sure she would have value as a for sale dog, but this is certainly NOT the route we (my parents) would consider taking - more questioning if 'free' attracts absolutely the wrong type of future family? If they advertised her with a price of some description, in your experiences, are more legitimate prospective owners likely to come forward so once they are completely happy with the standard of home the pooch can be rehomed and my parents would then not charge any money to the right people?
Thats a bit badly written I am sorry - just can't think how else to explain!
Please don't think my parents bad people, they have just made a mistake later on in life by getting another boisterous lab puppy (now 15 months old), and over the last nine months a combination of their deteriorating health and the lab's ever increasing enthusiasm to learn and please has become a situation not suited to any of them. She is a wonderful dog, and deserves the absolute best. They will be heartbroken if she does move on, but if they remain unable to handle her on a lead and recall her properly, at the very least she will not be getting the exercise she needs. 121 trainer is coming in next week (these are all things other people can do with her with not much effort) so I am hoping desperately that the situation will resolve, but in reality...
Thank you in advance, biscuits all round for understanding what I was waffling about!!