No More Pets!

So this is Mitsey.  We were downtown on Saturday and saw her with a few other dogs the animal shelter had at a fundraising event.  She was very calm and sweet.  She did not push and did not jump up on Kassi.  We decided we would try and make her a part of our family.  On Monday they called and said we could pick her up.  When we got to the shelter I asked lots of questions.  Where did she come from, why was she surrendered, any known issues, any aggression etc.  They said she was an owner surrender, then said well she was a court ordered owner surrender.  They did not say anything about how she acted when they brought her in.  They did after several questions say that the file did say she snipped at someone, but had no other record of biting.

Mitsey is very sweet and so very well behaved.  She sits, she stays, she is quiet, she knows lay down, she is house trained, she is amazing.  I had some concern of why she would be court ordered to be surrendered.  I noticed as Kassi got more and more wound up last night that Mitsey seemed agitated and did not want to be around Kassi.  Part of the reason for bringing Mitsey home was for Kassi to have a dog she could love on and play with that was not jumping on her and knocking her down.  (Nina would never intentionally hurt Kassi, but she is still all puppy and plays very rough.)  Seeing how Mitsey would turn away from Kassi and come to me I had my suspicions that this was not going to work out.  Last night she slept on a dog bed right next to the bed and stayed there all night.  She is very well behaved.

I still had my concerns though on how she reacted when Kassi was being "a kid".  She was great when Kassi was being calm and quiet.  So I began doing what a protective mom does and began to doubt the decision to bring her home.  Wes also asked a few questions and we found out more about her past and had to make a very hard to decision to tell Kassi we were going to have to take her dog back to the shelter.  Kassi was heart broken for a little while, but seems to be okay with it now.  If it was just Wes and I there is no doubt that I would have kept this dog, but I cannot take any chance that she might hurt Kassi or one of Kassi's friends.  Why the shelter did not provide me all the information on the dog I do not know.  Maybe they did not get the entire story or maybe they just chose not to, but my recommendation to them was that she not be placed in a home with children. 

If anyone is looking for a dog and there are no kids in the picture she is great.  She just is not right for our family, or in my mind any family with smaller kids.

I guess it just goes to show that I was right when I have said that I am just not ready for another dog.  It was September when we had Daisey put down to end her suffering.  I still have not healed from this.  Having Mitsey in the house made me think more about Daisey, how Daisey was, and how I was expecting another dog just like her and made me realize that I will never have another Daisey.  So once again I say no more pets.