Looking for good home for Black Lab

[infidel]

Sounds like a great dog. If i had a yard I would want her. Best of luck, I hope someone will adopt this beauty!

[plblark]

Damn. This is the situation we've been looking for (not quite a puppy, well behaved and trained) but we're not quite ready to get a dog yet. Good luck in your search for a good home. Be picky!

[SAM]

But this is not our situation or our decision.

JJH and family are doing what they feel is necessary and maybe best. For those of you that think different, well then take Mack. If there is a reason that you cannot, or will not, then don't question others and what they feel they need to do.

I have had several second hand pets and have been extremely happy with most of them. Our house dog, a Jack Russel that was given up at a very young age and has been with us going on 7 years. Koda, I got him at the age of a year 1 1/2 years of age, he will be 5 in the spring. The house tom cat, now going on 12 years old, we got as a kitten from the Blue Earth Humane Society. So maybe the original owners should have kept them, some may think so. Me, I am very thankful that they gave them up, I would not have change a single thing about how we acquired our second hand pets, what a deal we got.

So everytime someone has a dog and they don't want it anymore, we are supposed to just take the dog and shutup.

[Pat]

Am going to show this post to my Mom. She has always had black labs, and is a softy. Give me a day or so...

[cobb]

So everytime someone has a dog and they don't want it anymore, we are supposed to just take the dog and shutup.

No, I didn't say that and what follows will fit with your comment.

I will say that there are many that will offer their thoughts on what should be done, but they will not walk the walk. I have also in one case had an animal that if was not taken off my hands, I was walking him down to the river with a gun in hand and only coming back from the river with the gun. Sounds pretty harsh doesn't it, but there is more to the story than I am telling and if some want to judge me on the prior sentence, so be it.

JJH has posted an offering here that some may want to take advantage of. Maybe he shouldn't of, maybe just take Mack out to some gravel road and dump him, he will find a new home. I took what I think was a pit bull into the HS two weeks ago because he came in my yard looking for food. He was neutered, so someone's pet, but he was very skinny, so I fed and watered him. I would guess he was dumped, no he wasn't chipped, I had that checked at the veternarian before I took him to HS. He had been on his own for awhile, after I fed him, he took a dump that consisted mostly of field corn with some grass mixed in.

So JJH, do you see the errors of your way? Don't try to find a home for Mack, just go dump him on a back road, or maybe do the human thing and walk him down to the river and take your trusty gun with.

[SAM]

I WALK THE WALK. In the last 35 years I have owned 11 animals--ALL from the Douglas County Humane Society. We are also a foster family for the DCHS and we have fostered 8 animals over the years. I did not give any of them away or take them to the river. I bought them as pets and companions. They have cost me two new living room carpets and thousands of dollars in vet bills( surgeries-meds-shots-and misc.) They have all died of old age. I commend JJH and family for trying here and elsewhere and not just dropping Mack off on a country road ( then my wife would get involved-she's an enforcement officer for the ASPCA.) I just hope that when they do go looking for a NEW dog, they research more before making a decision so that they don't end up with another Mack. I love my animals-I'm not giving them away-I like them more than most of the people I meet. The victim in this is Mack-he does not have a choice or say in the matter.

[JJ]

Geez, didn't realize this would be such an issue. In all reality while Mack is a great dog, we spend a lot of time gone hunting. Last year we spent almost 30 days just pheasant hunting, plus a couple days duck and goose hunting. We travel a lot and sometimes spend up to 10 days at a time gone bird hunting, and often hunt MN,SD, KA, and OK. If we were to keep him we are either endlessly asking favors or paying a dog-sitter to take care of him. We figured finding a good home was much more fair than leaving him in a crate all day while we hunt, or shuffling him off to the first person who would take him.

My dad made a poor decision on purchasing Mack in the first place, which I warned him about in the first place (but that is another story). He has learned a lesson and would like to move on. If having high expectations of a hunting dog makes me a bad person then so be it. In my mind if I was a bad person, I'd put an ad in the paper and pawn him off on the first person who came along. This is not what I want. We hoped to find a good home with kids to keep him busy. I don't expect people knocking down the door to come get him, and I have turned down a couple people because I did not feel it was a good fit. We really want whats best for him, and unfortunetally that is not with our family.

[Stradawhovious]

I would take him if there weren't already 3 dogs at the homestead. I will put the word out.

[SAM]

Thank you for posting JJH. I understand your decision and wish you luck in finding a fabulous home for Mack. If I did not have 4 animals in my home at present, I would take Mack in a heartbeat and he could spend the rest of his days chasing squirrels and swimming in the pool. Good luck.

[Holland&Holland]

Cute dog. If only it was not so cold out I think I could manage to sleep in the garage for the week it would take after the wife found him... Side note: Maybe asking first was the wrong strategy.

Good luck finding him a home.

[DeanC]

I'd take him, but I have enough people who piss and crap on my floor the way it is.

[lenny7]

I'd take him, but I have enough people who piss and crap on my floor the way it is.

The dog is house trained...problem solved!!

[DeanC]

I'd take him, but I have enough people who piss and crap on my floor the way it is.

The dog is house trained...problem solved!!

Do you think I could train him to clean up after my kids? I don't want a retriever, I want a disposer.

[V Man]

Is the Mack still available? A lady I work with said that her dad may be interested in taking Mack. I can tell you that they are good people and both dog lovers. He works for the Sheriffs Dept in a county nearby so he will be going to a good home.

[JJ]

He's still around, hasn't found the right home yet. PM me, or Jared@