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My earliest memories involved a yapping dog, a blackish grey terrier that was hyper. The dog didn't like me. My parents gave it to my grandparents on my mother's side. As I got older, the dog got ok with me. Then they gave it away to someone else and I never saw him again.

At a pet store when I was around 10 I saw a white terrier I liked. I begged my parents to get him. They did. He was on sale because no one had bought him and he had been there a long time for a puppy. Because of our schedules, no one was home for close to 8 hours and we couldn't get the dog trained. Mom suggested we let my grandmother train him. I said ok. Here's the pissy part. I had a hundred dollars saved that I bought a chain link fence enclosure for him to stay there because they said they were going to let him stay outside some. I didn't want anything happening to him. @#%$, they didn't use the enclosure I bought. He ran away and I never saw him again. Then they gave the enclosure away.

A small outdoor mutt type dog wandered up to us one day last year at my grandparents. He stayed for several days. We got to claim him for our own. My grandparents seemed to really like him. He became my dog too. He got hit and killed in their driveway recently. I feel angry toward them. They have never had a dog to live more than 4 years old because of their stinking ways. They live on a farm and they let dogs roam everywhere. I get so #%$# sick of hearing them say about dogs, "He lived a happy life because he was free." Freaking @%##, living 4 years or less isn't happy!! ! I would've seemed happy as a toddler playing around the highway unsupervised, but I bet they wouldn't say how happy I was if I got hit by a car and living such a short life. No, it would be a tragedy. It's the same here with these dogs. It's a tragedy. They're careless and don't care how they're backing cars up or anything. I think they sometimes wanted to have these dogs killed so they wouldn't be bothered anymore. I don't think I'll ever feel right toward them again. I don't want to go over there anymore. I don't want to see where my dogs lived and were killed.

They've had many dogs through the years that were theirs. And most got killed by cars and stuff.

I was looking at pictures while on here tonight and was looking at photos of these dogs I had. I got to thinking about them and feeling sad all over again. It has made me very angry toward my grandparents. They could've at least given me my 100 dollars back for the enclosure I gave them when I was 10. 10 years old!! ! That was most of my savings from birthdays and chores around the house.

That's disgusting.
And so daft of them, to let the dogs live in complete 'freedom'...including the freedom to be lost or hit by traffic.
We're supposed to be taking care of them...maybe they are just lazy in fact. And, as you say, they are bored with caring after a little while.

I had a beautiful dog who I entrusted to my parents. Initially, the first few years, they appreciated him & put some effort into his care. But things changed after that. They just got lazy, took him for granted. Stopped washing & grooming him, except when they wanted to show others how good they were to him, took out their tempers on him, banished him from anywhere they'd laid their new carpet, which meant sudden isolation for him...and generally told him off constantly, for anything imaginable...licking, turning around in his basket, scratching, sniffing things, being too close,...
He ended up snarling & snapping at them & they left him at the vet to be put down like a criminal.
This is very recent & I'm still angry about it.
(I couldn't take him back because of my lease agreement.)
He was a very intelligent, sensitive, gentle dog, who loved cats and others creatures too.

Alot of people are just plain stupid when it comes to other species.
Then again, treating their own kind with respect is not necessarily their forte either.
I wish I could offer some kind of comfort, or solution...I guess one day you will be able to start over and do it right for your own dog, in your care solely. Give a dog a long, happy, healthy life experience...That's what I want to do, when I can.

I look forward to when I can care for a pet on my own when I have my own place someday. Glad you can relate to me on this.