r/NoStupidQuestions • u/InterGalacticgoth • 1d ago
Ethical way to get rid of a dog
I have a dog that I don't want. She was abandoned on our property and since we already had a dog we decided to take her into our home and it was a BIG MISTAKE. She's a heeler and she is destructive as can be, she's eaten holes in drywall, eaten baseboards, eaten coins, etc, evem though we have bought easily 150$ worth of heavy duty toys for her to chew thru. She's high maintenance, and we both work full time, and she's causing behavioral issues in our other dog.
I live in a rural area and rehoming isn't an option because a ton of ppl dump their dogs out here so everyone is trying to get rid of a dog they don't want.
I don't want to give her to a shelter where they will probably inevitably put her down because she's difficult.
I don't have any no kill shelters nearby because they are all at capacity.
I don't want to abandon her and have it on my conscience the rest of my life.
WHAT THE HELL DO I DO because I can't afford to keep fixing the things she's breaking and I can't be around 100% of the time. We thought kennel training would help but she muscled herself out of the kennel and will whine every second she's in there and we live with other people.
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u/eggs-benedryl 1d ago
you can put them through training courses but they can be 500 to 1000+ bucks, they're intensive "inpatient" style often where they take them and may involve you coming in for some lessons
or you can give them to a shelter, there's no for sure chance they'll be killed
look at this way, the chances of them dying are far far higher if they're abandoned and they could end up at the shelter anyway where they could also die
you could expand your search for no kill shelters
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u/hendersonDPC 19h ago
You said you want the ethical way, but also said you don’t want to euthanize the animal.
That makes no sense. If you think that euthanasia is unethical then you are mistaken.
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u/GFrohman 1d ago
There are more feral dogs than there are people willing or able to adopt them.
The uncomfortable truth is that sometimes the most ethical thing to do with a difficult dog is humane euthanasia. If that's what the shelter has to do, that's what they have to do.
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u/Nifey-spoony 23h ago
Absolutely not. I am disgusted by your lack of empathy.
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u/GFrohman 23h ago
Truly, I'm asking - what is your proposed solution, then?
There are more feral dogs and cats than there are people willing to adopt them, and more are born every day.
How do you propose we fix this problem without euthanasia.
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u/Bobbob34 1d ago
You train her. Have you tried working with her?
You contact shelters up north (I assume you're in the south), and see what transports they have running.
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u/hitometootoo 1d ago
Search for no kill shelters and take her there. It doesn't matter if they are far away. If you really care about her not being put down, you'll make the drive to a further away one.