Here’s the thing, i’ve always been somewhat of a dog person at heart, so when the family dog ran away (or at least that’s what i was told), i spent my time pining that he would one day come back, until finally, i decided to get another dog of my own. He and i had our issues at first, but as the years went by, he became a very close part of my life, one that i came to be very accustomed to. So, when he died, i was truly upset. I got another dog to carry on, but now, that very same canine is suffering the same issue that the previous one had: everyone else hating him, particularly my mother. My last dog was kind of energetic and not very obedient, which caused him to do two things that made my sister and mother hate him for life. He did a few bad things to me a few times, but for some reason, i don’t hate him for that, i might have said that i hated at the times, but that was purely out of anger. However, my mother and sister both hated him, plain and simple, and were both quick to point out his faults at any given time. I’d be lying if i said i didn’t see their points, but i’m assuming that it’s my “Dog person” nature that keeps me from seeing him in the same bad light.
My new Dog has quite a few flaws himself, and just like his predecessor, they have placed him on the “List” of my sister and mother, they both hate him now, and for while, i didn’t really care about that. But yesterday, my dog crossed a new line with my mother, he tore down a fence that she put up in the dog runner and she decided, right then and there, that she wasn’t going to be nice to him anymore. She said that she wasn’t going to give him any more extra food, or any more water (he shares the dog runner with her dog) (not a good thing, considering it’s summer), but most of all, she said that if my dog dies, i’m not allowed to bury him in the backyard like i did with my last dog.
I’m at a total loss right now, i can (more or less) deal with her not liking my dog, i can even deal with her not giving him any extra food. But no water during the summer? That sounds like hatred beyond forgiveness, my mother even called my dog a menace, she also said a few things regarding the matter about me when i said “I wonder if I’ll ever have dog that she likes”, but i’ve all but forgotten them. And the sad truth is, i saw some of the points she made, my dog does have a lot of issues about him, which actually made me want to go outside and train my dog to listen. I guess i was hoping that, like my last dog, this mutt would settle down as he got older and eventually become more docile (i initially wanted a dog that just laid around and did nothing).
But what really bothers me is the fact that my mother has forbidden me from burying my new dog in the backyard when he dies. I did this when my last dog passed away, so if my new one goes too, i’m not sure what i’ll do. This somewhat adds on to an earlier grievance i had with my mother when she was putting up a swimming pool, she wanted to put cement over my dog’s grave and just put a plaque over it, but i was against it, it just didn’t feel right. I mean, if it were a human, then she’d have been against too, but since it’s a dog, she basically thought that i wouldn’t mind. Eventually, we settled on putting up a fence around the grave, but still, the fact that she was willing to ask me to do this for the sake of a pool that i likely wouldn’t even use just makes me feel a bit upset.
Has any of this ever happened to anyone else?