This is a long one and I am not from an English Speaking country.
Until today I had a small dog. Let's call her Emma. Emma is 10 years old. Emma is the sweetest dog you will ever meat. She constantly wants to play with anyone despite being 10 she is still acting like a puppy. No matter who you are the moment she will lay eyes upon you will come to get petted. And I lost that angel today. (no she isn't missing and no she isn't dead)
This is her story.
We bought Emma from a Pet Shop in 2010. We wanted a small dog after our previous one had been poisoned. We couldn't find any small dog to adopt so we decided to buy one from a Pet Shop. We later discovered that Emma had a disfigurement on her left leg but that didn't matter we loved her anyways. She was a sweetheart although loud which annoyed the hell of my father(not a dog person, he doesn't like dogs). Still since me and my siblings loved her, he tried to cope with her. Also he had grown up when having a dog inside the house was unfathomable, old habits die hard I guess. In 2012 my Grandma, had an moved with us due to having an accident which limited her mobility a lot, she lived on the first floor(my house is very old passed down from generation to generation generation and has 3 floors) after me (I was in my Junior-High years) and my father renovated it to make it habitable (it hadn't been used since my gran gran gran parents lived here). Since she couldn't move a lot we decided that Emma should stay with her to keep her company when we would be at school/work. All that time my Grandma spoiled Emma like any Grandma would. Never punishing her for doing her "thing" inside the house and always allowing her to do anything. In 2013 Emma got pregnant I don't exactly remember how or why it happened it just happened. We didn't sterilised her because we believed that to be unethical. If I remember correctly one of my Grandma's friends and neighbor had also a small dog which she view as her son and wanted grandkids... We gave away the puppies (for free of course). In 2014 our Neighbor a very sweet lady who was our grandma's best friend(not same lady as the one above) got a dog, lets call her Lucy. Emma and Lucy became best friends almost instantly. Despite Lucy quickly growing to be 5 times the size of Emma they still maintained their friendship. My Grandma would let Emma out on her own to go play with Lucy on our street. Our street is a deadend most of the road is dirt and we live basically in the woods. Few cars ever go by us. We always played in the street. However in late 2014 everything went sh*t. My Grandma had a stroke and ever since that strong she lost her will to live all of our family focus would go to my Grandma. Eventually we were forced because we couldn't take care of her 24/7 to sign her to a nursing home. She died in 2015. We accidentally stopped Emma's Vacition on late 2014, because tbh we forgot about it the stress and costs of nursery home were too great not to mention the mental toll it had on all of us. All of it was to great to remember that Dogs have to be vaccinated their entire life not just in their youth like humans. Remember how I told you that my Grandma had spoiled Emma? Well Emma was making a mess doing her thing inside and tearing apart everything eventually my dad had her stay outside despite my attempts to get her back inside. So we let her stay in Grandma's floor alone and she made a huge mess. We should have worked better with her but my Grandma was a bigger priority.
The worse by far happened in 2015 when my Grandma died. I was devastated. I lost my will to do anything I stopped studying I stopped caring about myself and I stopped caring about everyone around me. It was a rough time and I was 16-17. I needed a psychiatrist to actually work my depression out and study to get to university. And instead of my Grandma I became the focus of the family so we never re-trained Emma. In 2016 things took a better turn, I started retraining Emma and slowly getting her inside(in case it isn't clear the first floor of the house is separated from the other 2) but then I got accepted into University. Which was amazing but also meant that I wasn't going to be around to further train Emma. My mother was busy with my other Siblings my father never liked her in first place and my Siblings were too young to do anything. So here is what was happening with Emma 2016-2019. Emma had learned the neighborhood quite well by this point. She would leave our house (she would bark so we would open the door) she would go and play with Lucy and/or sunbath on the dirt street because the trees block almost all sunlight in our houses. once she was done she would return bark again for us to let her back inside in our garden. Of course she was constantly getting durty and getting filled with lice. But she is an animal not in inaminate object she still has her free will so we didn't stop her I had to clean her every chance I got and spray her for the lice. But that didn't do much.
Last Sunday Emma didn't return. We were afraid that since she was old and some dogs when they reach a late age leave their packs to die somewhere alone that Emma had done that. Well no someone took her during one of her sunbaths mistakened her for a stray and delevered her to a Shelter.
Today I found out that there is no hope of getting her banned from it. After some fb posts I found her and got in contact with them the shelter hates me and won't return her to me if I try to get her back they will sue me for animal neglegience and I cannot win. She also has canser which I was unaware of and needs surgery. They will not give her back to me the shelter lady wants to adopt her herself and there is nothing I can do about it.
I write this as a form of acceptance and as a warning to my fellow pet owners please for the love of God keep your pets inside times have changed this is illegal right now. When a couple years back it was normal. Also If you think that you are treating your pet well make sure you do because you never know when one lady will take away that angel from your life.
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