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Originally Posted by AShadow721
Let me tell you how he kept his last dog. His last dog was a golden retriever and yellow lab mix. A better temperment to be around children, however another breed that is meant to be out in a farm like setting. First, the dog was never nuetered, so you know how that is. And he was not once ever taken to a vet. He's never taken any of his pets to a vet. I left my father's house when I was 13, didn't talk to him for 7 years. So for that time I'm not sure how he kept the dog. But when I moved in with him again, he had this dog chained up 24/7 in either his bathtub or his laundry room, so the dimentions on his living space were that of a crate at the most. He fed him 4 cups of dog food a day. I'm not sure if that was how much he needed.
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The amount of food being fed depends on the quality of the food, if it’s a cheap supermarket quality then the dog needs to eat more to get the right requirements it needs.
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But in his last year at least, he developed a tumor on his rear. My father didn't care what so ever. He said he was gonna cut it off himself when I said something to him about it. He told me that was why he kept the dog locked up, so he wouldn't get blood or anything on his carpet. He told everyone else a different story. I looked up what it could have been and found out that dogs his size that were never neutered usually develop benign tumors in that area during old age. It said he needed to be neutered and that he needed to have the tumor removed. I told my father, he did nothing. The dog died a little over a year ago in the laundry room.
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If he ever does this an animal again I would really suggest reporting him to either the police or animal welfare because it is cruel. To attempt to remove a tumour on his own is life threatening, not just because it’s a horrible thing for the animal to experience, but the lack of sterility, the fact that the tumour may only be one part of an even bigger problem and the lack of medications and supportive care.
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He's always been abusive to his pets, he even told me to hit this puppy for some reason already. He would beat his cats for urinating on his old couch that he got from a meth house. I thought the cats were doing this because of anxiety from being beaten, which is possible, because they were going in other places as well, but not as much as the couch. My aunt told me that meth smelled like cat urine and that's why they were going on the couch.
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Meth does pretty much smell like cat pee yeah, whether that’s would make cats go everywhere I wouldn’t have a clue. If these cats were being abused then that could be a reason, as well as medical conditions. You should never hit an animal for doing the wrong behaviour, the proper way to stop a behaviour is by teaching it the correct behaviour. If an animal never learns the right behaviour it will never stop the wrong.
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Just would like to mention, my father did have a dog (we didn't know what kind it was, we called him a minature doberman, because his body shape was not like a pinscher, but he could have been a min pin and chihuahua mix), who my sister later took with her when she moved out. But he was very aggressive. He actually bit threw my hand when I was about 7-8 years old. I still have the scars. I did not know that dogs can be trained to not be aggressive, so thank you for that information.
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Was he just a black and tan Chihuahua? There are a few smaller black and tan breeds that looks similar but are different. But after my last failed guess...
If an adult dog is aggressive then teaching them not to be aggressive is not always an outcome. There are different forms of aggression, including food related, dominance, fear, pain, maternal, idiopathic (where the is no known cause, but this is rare), etc.
Depending on the cause of the aggression the outcome is different, so for a dog that has been allowed to be dominant and display these behaviours its entire life, then getting rid of these behaviours is not as likely. And if you have kids then it isn’t really isn’t worth the risk.
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I was really mad when my father first told me he got a dog, for those reasons. I knew he was just going to ruin another living beings life. The dog didn't deserve that. I would hope to have the dog moved to a better home. The problem is my father. I'm afraid that he would kill me if I gave his dog away. I'm also afraid to talk to him about it. He stills has a key to this place, so he walks in anytime. I'm trying to get out of here.
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If he still has keys can you get the locks changed? You could also take the dog to a shelter and then tell him someone made a report about the dog and it was taken so there was nothing you could do. That’s really all I can think of. You shouldn’t be forced to look after an animal, and if that animal is any sort of risk to someone else then you’re being forced into a dangerous situation.