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 Mysty (Mysty) posted on Monday, February 22, 2010 - 1:42 am
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I'm sure that its been a heartbreaking decision to make but you will be doing what is best for Kita.
I personally cannot help you as I too have a bad back and my partner is the walker (in winter anyway) and will not cope with 3 GSD's!!....try this guy though, he has years of experience and never puts a dog to sleep
http://www.biggsd.net/
Good luck in finding Kita a good home! |
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| Lollypop32 (Lollypop32) posted on Sunday, February 21, 2010 - 9:55 pm
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Sorry just realised the pic links didnt work and couldnt find an edit post option
http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll244/kleaneasy/Brandon_November_2007.jpg
http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll244/kleaneasy/100_0232.jpg |
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| Lollypop32 (Lollypop32) posted on Sunday, February 21, 2010 - 9:47 pm
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Hi
Posting here today is hard but having taken a great deal of time thinking about this it is ultimately the only right thing for my German Sheppard Kita.
I’m not really sure what I do and don’t need to detail here so apologies if this is too long or if I miss anything out.
I suffer with a bad back and have been physically unable to walk Kita since she was a puppy, earlier last year my marriage broke down and as a result there is no longer anyone able to walk her. We’ve tried finding alternatives but nothing has worked and over the last year she has become increasingly unhappy.
I will say at this point she will need someone who has the time and patience to get her back into the active lifestyle she so very much needs, and despite having a lovely temperament she has picked up a couple of bad habits (I will explain in more detail further down) which someone with a firm handling of dogs should have no issue fixing
So a little more about Kita.....
She is 6 years old and comes from pedigree parents both kennel club although Kita was not kennel club, I was told at the time this was due to the mother being too young but I don’t know enough about these things to know for sure.
She has been with my family since a puppy, and currently lives in a home with 2 children (currently 9 + 15 the youngest was a toddler when she came to us) and a cat. She is also used to large numbers of kittens beating her up after the cat had a litter, she didn’t bat an eye lid.
She has always had good contact with other people although has on 2 prior occasions taken a dislike to someone in my home. Her reaction was to simply sit at their feet and growl although she did nothing else and was easy to move away. I later realised this appeared to have been created by a habit of mine. She has never really lost her puppiness, and as such can be a little over excitable when people come in the house. As a result I had been putting her outside out of habit when letting guests into the home, and then once they were in I would let her back in to say hello. This seemed to be calmer for both guest and Kita. On the two occasions she didn’t take kindly the problem seemed to be that I had let the guest in without shutting Kita out first. If she is not familiar with the person at the door they need to have their presence within the home before she sees them and then she accepts them without question.
She is used to both children and animals, cats and dogs... although in the last year as she’s become sad I’ve noted she seems less tolerant of other dogs, I’m not quite sure if this is a desire to play and reaction to rejection or not but as this only seemed to come about since she’s been lacking activity I’m hopeful a return to activity will see this problem disappear again.
She has a beautiful temperament, loves human attention.
She isn’t a lover of pet toys, no idea why she just never really seemed bothered with them.
She’s used to eating dry food and enjoys slops although treats she can take or leave.
She has no issue with being left alone.
Her faults –
She can get over excited which for a German shepherd some find a little overwhelming/ annoying.
She has some bad habits as a result of conflicting training as a puppy. Husband and I never seemed to agree to which method was best, for example he would feed her from his plate, I never allow this. However I am confident given consisting rules/ boundaries she will quickly pick up better habits as despite conflicting rules in the home she knew what was acceptable with me, and never tried to push the limit.
Oh .... almost forgot... due to lack of finances she is behind on her jabs.
She has also NOT been spayed
While I know she is good with children I am unsure how she will mentally cope with leaving the family and moving into another one so ideally think she would be best suited to someone without children able to spend time with her.
If you have any questions please ask. I feel like I’ve said loads but no doubt missed something.
Here are a couple of pics...
http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/l...ember_2007.jpg
http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/l...y/100_0232.jpg
P.S Please be aware I have exhuasted all options prior to this point, that being the case suggestions to help resolve the problem and keeping Kita in the family no matter how well intended wont offer anything we've not already thought of, or failed at, Thanks |
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