Ha... Sarah I had to chuckle at that one cuz boy is that a true statement.
So here's what happened. When I moved out, basically every house available did not allow dogs. I have been getting away with having him anyways this whole time cuz I love that dog more than anything and I was just dragging ass with getting a new familliy for him and starting the screening process.
I've had time to prepare my kids for it, etc etc for weeks, months actually. Well I decided to have my boyfriend hook up with a girl I know that does fostering for an organization and let them do the screening process since that's what they are trained to do and I figure they'd be able to do it better than me cuz I can hardly keep it together when even discussing the whole topic.
Well, at 6 am in the morning I'm finishing up my hair and makeup to go to the airport when my boyfriends dad arrived. He was going to stay with his boy and see him off to school like an hour after we needed to leave.
Pepper had encountered him like 3 times and never EVER had he done anything like this. He's a bit of a nervous dog but very loving. Something about his dad though has always seemed to agitate him.
Anyway I hear him sit on the couch and he's talking to him and suddenly I could hear Pepper totally attack him. My boyfriend calmly grabbed him and shut him in my daughters room (she wasn't home). I guess he was totally fine while he was being petted but suddenly jumped up and tried to bite him in the face pretty viciously. He luckily was not injured nor mad. Just shocked and shook up. It was really close call.
I had like 5 minutes to get out the door. I went in and soothed the dog. He was clearly frightened and if I didn't know any better, I think he was truely sorry. But I had to shut off all emotion and say goodbye to him. I took one last look and hugged him and kissed him and went out the door.
So now I'm on my way to the car with my bf having horriflying visions of something like this happening to someone elses grandpa... or a child.... and what might happen to not only someone else but the dog himself. Someone might get really angry and kick him, break his ribs, hurt him, or lock him in a garage forever and resent him or dump him off...
So I turned my bf to me and calmly said... I want you to call this vet in the town next to us, and tell him what happened, and have him put to sleep. I don't want a single word about it while I'm in Phoenix. I don't want to hear anything whatsoever. I will try to put it out of my mind as much as I can till I get back.
So anyway I walked in the door night before last with the eerie silence of no dog barking from the noise. No food bowl, no dog toys, and no excitement and chaos of my great friend that is always so happy to see me...
So that's pretty much it...
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