A hard decision

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

Today we made the decision to surrender our dog Olly to the council.

Olly is an escape artist, he's just over a year old and a big boy, he can jump our 4ft fence with ease & has been responsible for the passing of multiple pet chickens.

We've trained him to sit, he generally comes when called and would wait his turn for food but didn't get the issues with jumping the fence!

On Saturday we were out, he must have gotten out and someone took him to the local vet.
We weren't able to pick him up until today so DP & I made the hard decision to surrender him.
We had advertised him for sale with no luck and aside from redoing all our fences (which our other dog doesn't jump) and being able to trust him with the chooks this was the best option!

I hope he passes the tests and can be regimes, he is beautiful but just not right for us.

We will spend some more quality time with our old girl and once the girls are a bit older will get them a puppy who won't be Houdini.

Have told the girls the Lund found him new owners and they seem ok with that.

Will really miss his cheeky little face
Bye Olly Wally!

Not an easy decision for us to make

[Lenny]

It must have been really really hard. I'm sure you did not take the decision lightly!
I hope there is a new home out there just waiting for him.

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

It's not fair to tie him up all day (and we refused to) but we can't just let him run riot

Couldn't stand the thought of him being chained all the time & it would be an expensive job to redo all the fencing

Feel horrible though!

[RainbowRiver]

Giving up a pet is so hard. We had to last year as well, our puppy would round up my kids like sheep (was a pure bred border collie) and they couldn't play outside, they hated it. Was upsetting, but he now lives on a huge farm and loves it.

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

Lol, he was a collie x kelpie x staghound, were on 4 acres and if be just stayed on our property it wouldn't have been so bad but he would go off sniffing out road kill & the like

[Teeki]

It's horrible isn't it We took in a year old golden retriever from the rspca for a week. They told us he'd had a few homes already but it was the first time they'd had him. They said he'd been tied up for six weeks before they got him because he jumped fences - that's not a problem here. Turns out though, he doesn't even consider jumping, he digs. Every day we had him he escaped multiple times a day, he terrorised the sheep over the road, got onto the highway and on the last day, killed the neighbours chicken.

We have a huge bit of land and can't re-do all our fences so that he can't dig under. He was not at all interested in staying near us or our other dog after the second day, he was consumed with needing to dig or escape. Our only option would have been to tie him up and we couldn't do that to him, so we took him back. DD was devastated and it was the hardest thing to see him being led away I do think though, that there are situations where surrendering a pet is better for them than keeping them