2 Dacshunds in Florida available to good home. PLEASE HELP!

[Kari]

Thank you to everyone who has offered to help these 2 puppers out! I pray that they will do the right thing and turn them over!

[Rich]

Eric and Terri, you are my heroes today. Emily, I hope that you managed to read through all the anger and get in touch with one of these two so that the dachshunds can be treated as they should be.  I'm not going to apologize for the anger you have encountered as I sit here typing this through a red haze myself, but I'm going to assume that you can be educated and possibly can listen to reason.

So the dogs have been in a crate 23 hours a day while your dog did what?  I would be interested in learning what information you received that indicated that this treatment could in any way, shape or form be considered training.  If you could tell us that maybe we could start to understand your seeming incredible callousness toward 2 innocent living creatures that are capable of love and yes, capable of suffering as well.

Older dogs can't be trained?  I'm sure we would be interested in where you received this information as well.  In order to train a dog you have to have a clue.  23 hours a day in a crate will only train a dog that human beings are cruel.  I hope you follow one of the many options suggested to you here so that the dogs may begin a life of love and gentle correction instead of hostility and imprisonment.

So here we are nearly a year after the problem first presented itself and you got lots of good information.  Did you and Jarrett go together to a dog behavior specialist together to discuss the problem?  Did you read any books about how to correct problem behavior together? Did you give Jarrett any options other than an ultimatum to rid himself by any means possible of his companions while you kept yours?

Basically you would now consider euthanasia for these dogs because they are inconvenient. It sounds to me, and evidently to others on this board, that you had your mind set on ridding yourself of these dogs that you have hated since the first posts last summer and that you grudgingly decided that you would give this a trial period where you tried something that had not a prayer of working.

It sounds to me like Jarrett loves and has loved these dogs.  It also sounds like you could care less.  As the veteran of a couple of failed marriages, let me tell you this.  You can't build a relationship based on what you think you can make the other person into.  You also can't start out by such a major overhaul on the things your partner cares for and values without sowing the seeds of bitter resentment.

In my opinion, the dogs aren't the problem, but they have become a symbol for your desire to control and dictate the direction of your relationship.  Every word of your original post screams that after a long campaign - severely loaded by the methods adopted - you are about to finally get your way.  And you are about to get it no matter what form the solution takes.  If you have to kill the dogs (let's not hide the facts under the euphemism "euthanasia"), then so be it.

While I have to wonder why you even bother to post your situation overburdened with self-justification on this board, I am glad that there are those who will step up and say "we don't care what their problems are, we just want to love them."  I hope in this you find a demonstration of some characteristics of the human heart that I sadly fear you lack.

[Shumard4]

I have two things to say.
If you are a decent person you will get them into rescue. I will take them but I am in Missouri and have no way to get them here.

Second I would love to introduce your boyfriend to my daughter who understands doxies having two of her own.

[bridgetlouise]

Bravo, Rich..... well said