And The "Worst Dog Owner Award" goes to.....

[Donna Little]

My sister and brother-in law!
I seriously don't know how my husband shares the same gene pool with most of his family members. His sister lives on several acres of land and over the years has had a few dogs that have mostly gone missing as well as any cats because they run loose on the property that's right off of an extremely busy hwy. They currently have a few goats, a dog and a cat. Well, she called a few days ago to tell me she was getting a newborn piglet this week. It's a micro mini and was 3 days old. She was telling me I had to come and see it so I said for her to just call me when she picked it up.
Well, the phone rang earlier today and it was her saying she had bad news. I assumed she was gonna say she wasn't getting the piglet for some reason but that wasn't it. Her 10 month old Cattle Dog puppy was hit and killed by the school bus that passes their house every morning. She then went on to tell me she was so upset but more than that she was mad. I asked if she was mad at the bus driver and she said no, the dog. She should know better than to try to chase a bus. Hmmm, REALLY?
I said well, considering she's a herding dog, and you've given her nothing to herd, and she runs loose, and has had NO training, why would she expect Bella to know better? I wanted to reach through the phone at this point and strangle her. But then it got worse! She goes on to say that the Lord works in mysterious ways because even though she was sad about Bella, she was getting the piglet tomorrow and had been worrying about where it was gonna sleep at night. And now that the dog was dead the piglet could stay in her doghouse! AHHHHHHH!!!! Yes, I'm sure God struck her puppy down for her just so the new piglet could have a doghouse to sleep in. Can you even imagine feeling that way?! I sat there for a second with my mouth hanging open but then just said, "Well, how convenient..." She didn't even get that I was being sarcastic and answered, "I know." At this point I just wanted off the phone before I lost my mind. And believe it or not his other sister is worse than her!
I will never understand why they keep getting more animals. They just sold their 2 mini horses on Craigslist because they were tired of taking care of them.
People, if you don't see me on here anymore it's because I'm doin' time for murder.....

[Makovach]

I know how you feel! I have alot of family memebers like this, some worse than others!

[wolfsnaps88]

'Im so sorry to hear this. The sad truth is not everyone is as good to their pets as the good people that frequent these forums.

[catahoulamom]

Ugh I feel your frustration! Going though the same thing with my boyfriends family. His Dad has multiple dogs that he has found in the streets and guess what - he doesn't believe in spaying or neutering. My boyfriends brothers dogs (two pit bulls) live in the backyard on a chain along with other small dogs. It is just a horrible and disgusting situation.

[hmbutler]

People, if you don't see me on here anymore it's because I'm doin' time for murder.....

If you like, we can all be character witnesses and say that, in your situation, we all would've done the exact same thing...

F****** morons...

[MollyWoppy]

My sister and brother-in law!
People, if you don't see me on here anymore it's because I'm doin' time for murder.....

Ok, two things. Firstly, if they ever, EVER get another cattle dog again, you have to promise me that you will kidnap it, then call me and we'll arrange for some to transport it to Florida just to get it the hell away.
Secondly, if you do end up topping her, give me a yell and smoke out of that popcorn joint - you can hide out down here with me till the heat is off.

[Donna Little]

Ok, two things. Firstly, if they ever, EVER get another cattle dog again, you have to promise me that you will kidnap it, then call me and we'll arrange for some to transport it to Florida just to get it the hell away.
Secondly, if you do end up topping her, give me a yell and smoke out of that popcorn joint - you can hide out down here with me till the heat is off.

So nice to know I have people that have my back. And you have no idea how much of a little dog thief I can be when I have to be.....

[Caty M]

Or you can sneak through Border Patrol and hide up here in Canada. Or you never know, the judge could be an animal lover and just give you probation..

People really, really suck. I can't imagine not caring about your pets. If they aren't animal lovers, why do they own animals? I can respect the opinion of people who don't care for animals and don't own any (even if I don't understand it ) but I have zero respect for anyone who gets them anyway and doesn't care for them.

[xellil]

Yes, I think you have lots of places to go on the lam - you can skip around from dog food forum member's house to dog food forum member's house until they get tired of trying to track you down.

My family is alot like that, also, I am sad to say. My cousin got a Doberman, never let it inside, and when it developed a tumor on his stomach just let it get huge and then put him to sleep.

My other cousin has two dogs that aren't allowed inside and stay in the back yard. One is so obese I don't know how she walks.

My brother has a cat and he thinks dry cat food cleans its teeth and even though it weighs 18 pounds he can't see limiting his food.

My other brother and his girlfriend put her very old dog to sleep when his teeth started rotting and falling out.

Another cousin put her cat to sleep when it started peeing in the house.

Some of them are very good to their animals. But none would consider raw that I know of - except my cousin with the bloodhound, I think they are feeding him rib bones for his teeth and looking at the raw thing. His wife really liked the photo of my dogs eating the hogshead and said she wanted one for her dog. I can only hope.

On and on and on. And they all pretty much think I am crazy.

I feel like Caty - why do people who don't really care that much about animals even get them? Seems like life would be easier without a dog chained outside to a tree.

[Puddlypoo]

Some people just need a good Poor puppy :-( I was riding a long a trail one day with Puddles & had to veer off for a short section due to a loose animal on part of the trail. So I walked along the only place I could which is a busy 'road' but I was very careful and was only walking on it for a short distance until I could get back onto the next part of the trail. Well, I past this one house and literally, about 6 dogs came running out at us. This house had a fence in the front but it was wide open so the dogs came right out to us. Well, I stopped in my tracks hoping someone would come out because I didn't know what these dogs were going to do. A lady came out and got mad at ME because I was walking a long a 'highway' as she called it (its not a highway by any means, just busy road) and said I was going to get her dogs killed. Seriously?? I told her she was the one who was going to get her dogs killed because she kept the fence open when she lives on a busy street. Some people just don't have a lot of sense.