I Gave My Dog Away :(

We just had to give my Lab away because my parents are divorcing and I don't know how to handle it. All I can think about is how scared and sad he might be. Does he think we abandoned him and don't love him? I haven't been able to eat or stop crying.

Wow i gave my lab away back to human society too im so hurt bevause he was a great dog its just that my roomate had no patience..i miss him soo much he gave me joy motivation and was my best friend i want to get him back but my situation is not good i cant get over it

I got separated and had to move away from a house I sold to pay the ex girlfriend out. Nobody likes to rent to a young guy with 2 large dogs but I searched and searched until I found a dump that would accept me and my 2 dogs. I sold my 2 classic cars (one was my first car) so I could pay 12 months rent in advance to convince somebody to take me in. Rentals are hard to find in Melbourne Australia

I used the rest of the money and worked hard to save another deposit for my own place. I have another small house now, and another classic car but the most important thing is I still have the dogs. Possessions can be bought and sold and you can do what you have to do to keep a roof over your head but I didn't want to sell my best friends. I could not buy new ones.

Incidentally - my ex girlfriend sold her dog to buy a unit, so in retrospect I was happy we separated. She gave up on me when I fell ill, then she gave up on her dog.

If you truly love your dog, you won't give up. You will do what it takes to stay together.

@ sickwithgrief, Your comments are a little harsh, don't you think? Sometimes things happen in life that people have no control over, and have to make choices they never thought or wanted to make. Sometimes, people have to give up not only animals, but children as well, due to situations that are beyond their control. Seriously, you need therapy after the comments you have made. At least Cherry27 did the right thing and took the dog back to the Humane Society. She could have dumped him off in a field some where. But, she didn't. She did the responsible thing. Seriously, get the hell over yourself sickwithgrief. Not everything is in life is rainbows and sunshine. **** happens.

All of you will rot in hell for what you did. Why not sell your daughter...its the same thing you bastards. You should have killed them and saved them the trauma of leaving them

scumbag! You should have killed her...it probably would have been less tragic for the dog. Imagine your parents abandoning you without saying a word to you...maybe you sold her to a research lab, maybe she is bait for a dogfighting ring now...or maybe she just starved to death by a abusive owner. You wont know, because you didnt care. Humanity is just hopeless with stupid, insensitive ******** like you on this earth.

My girlfriend and I just gave our dog to an animal shelter yesterday. He is a great dog. He is so loving. The problem was he wouldn't stop pooping and peeing in the house, no matter what we tried. Nothing ever worked. He would pee and poop everywhere and our brand new apartment already smells like urine because of him. Regardless, I still feel completely horrible about what I did. I dropped him off in anger. In retrospect, I know I did what was best for us and him. I just wish I would've thought it out more instead of doing it so quickly. I just got tired of cleaning urine stains and spending exorbitant amounts of money on carpet cleaning machines and carpet cleaning products. I love you Colby, my little buddy. I hope you are safe wherever you may be and I hope your new owner takes great care of you. I will never forget you. I am sorry. I let you down.

I'm going through the same thing ): I have 3 dogs and the one that i play with the most, has to be given away. My parents cant afford 3 dogs so we have to give up one and my mom chose the one that im really close with. I only have 2 weeks with him, I will miss him terribly )':

How can. You cope with this? And feel better? I just gave. A away my 1 year old beagle. Yesterday evening I ff eel horrible. I almost feel like going back and. Taking. Him back help!!! My heart hurts. I can't stop crying ;,(

I miss my dog... My parents divorced recently and neither my mom or dad want to take him in. I feel like he suffered the most from the divorce. ): So we had to give up our dog, who's almost 11 years old now. ): We've had him since he was a baby, so it hurts so much to give him up. I know a lot of people see dogs as just animals but he really was like a brother to me. I miss you Sammy... ):

I too never thought I would give up the dog I adopted as our forever friend. After several losses of my husband, my job, my health both mental & physical, I finally realized I had to sell my home to survive. This came at a huge price to our family of 3. We tried to re-home our large black lab but he ended back at the SPCA were we got him. It's been several weeks & some nights I miss him terribly.. Nobody ever knows the situation they will face in life & I had to do the best I could for my daughter & myself & our big boy. I know he's been adopted & I still wonder how he is & where he is. It still hurts like giving up a child. I spent alot of time with him this past few months before the move & it was so heartbreaking to say good bye. I feel like I failed all 3 of us.

I have my heart split in 2 right now crying because i have to give me dog away that I had for 4 years! As I'm typing this I'm tearing up because he's next to me sleeping! The dog was a gift and i even saw him being born and had him since the moment he was born! He loves me unconditionally and I love him the same way! I will try everything in my power to keep him! I can't see myself without him!!

We just placed our 4 year old Boston Terrier to a new home and I've been crying for 2 days. I feel so horrible because I wonder if he thinks I don't love him anymore? He was my little buddy, slept with me under the covers every night, trusted and loved me unconditionally. I became sick a year ago and have been unable to take him on walks and let him have fun. He's basically been in bed with me for over a year and i finally had the courage to find him a new home where he will get to go on walks and have an exciting life. I miss him so much. My heart hurts so bad. I love you little guy, I'm sorry and I miss you more than ever :(*** I pray that when i get better you will come home to me.

I had to give my to Shellie's to SPCA , could not take them to a apartment after losing my house. The pain I still feel and it has been over a year. Just to see them again to know they are ok, had both since they was pups. Jersey the boy was 4 and Grysy the female was 3 they was sis an bro.

I'm so sorry): I feel for you 100% right now. I just gave my puppy away too. I can't handle the pain right now. I never thought it would be this hard giving a puppy I had for a month away. I never thought I'd get so attached and it's honestly the hardest thing I've ever done. ): we couldn't keep him because he was a beagle and he was a very young social puppy and we just didnt have the lifestyle to keep him): the trainer said he would harm himself if he didnt get enough of the attention he needed and I was never around for him durning the day with school and cheer and he spent most of the day alone and we didn't want him hiring himself so we gave him to a ranch with a wonderful young girl with another beagle to be his friend so it makes me feel better that we were his step to a better home. although the heartache is horrible. I hope things get better <3

I got a rottweiler she was a puppy barely 3 months old and i've had her for about a week and my family decided they wanted to give her away because of the nonstop bitting and the fact she wasnt potty trained I have another dog a cocker spaniel and they didnt get along so we had to give her away today and i haven't stopped crying because in the few days we had her I got really close to her and i miss her so much I taught her how to sit, roller over, and many other stuff and I was the only one she'd jump on when we got home from dinner. I just love her so much her name was Lola btw. :'(

Had to give my 14 year old dog away. Ive had him ever since he was a puppy, but recently he had a heart attack, and we took him to animal control, where theyll put him to sleep. Im sorry Coco, i always loved you
See you on the other side buddy

My goodness so many stories regarding the same thing, and I thought I was the only one :( we adopted an 8yr old boxer, fantastic in the house and adorable but outside a nightmare. snapping and snarling and trying to attack other dogs, he even had a go at me when I tried to stop him. he is upsetting my own 11 ur old dog, who has now been diagnosed weith stress. We have only had him a fortnight but sadly I am returning him tomorrow. I am heartbroken and feel I have let him down. The thought of him being in kennels again is kiling me :(

I just gave my 8 month old beagle away a week ago. It has been so hard. I have cried so much. She was so destructive. She ruined furniture, tore through a screen door, shredded the padding on my son's new basketball hoop, plus 10 stands of outdoor Christmas lights and a couple of timers. I realize she was bored. I have a son with autism and I thought they would bond. They really didn't and then I ended up being torn between my son's needs and hers. I was fortunate my sister's family wanted to take her. They have a 3 year old beagle, plus 4 people to help care for her. My husband works long days and my son wasn't able to help much. My puppy is a lot happier now which I'm glad, but she's 7 hours away and I miss her terribly. I feel I failed her.

I just today had to surrender my dog, Zombie. He was the most loving, energetic and happy dog you could want. However,my wife has become pregnant and I'm having to work 14+ hours of overtime a week just to be able to make ends meet and neither of us had time to walk him. I was able to find time to walk him maybe four times this past week. And since he lived in the kitchen he would mess there and my wife wouldn't be able to stand to go in to make her food. We decided this was not a good life for him and I brought him to the humane society today. I have been crying off and on for the past three days over this. I miss him more than anything, but this is just not the right home for him. I know he will find a loving home that is perfect for him and so will yours.

I adopted a 13 year female spayed lab mix from a shelter, I fell in love with her, she is so well behaved, she has some arthritis and cancer, I feel bad because I cannot afford to take her to a vet.
I was walking her on a leash 2 or 3 times a day, then my health took a very bad turn,
She is depressed now, because I can no longer walk her or with her.
I drive her places because she loves car rides, I drive her to the park where we used to walk.
But I am still sad when I look at her sad depressed face, I know she is bored and I am not physically able to do much with her anymore.
She is huge!!!! So I cannot pick her up and hug her:(
I don't want to confuse her by taking her back to shelter after I have had her for over 4 months now.
SO thinking of changing her status to "fostering" so maybe that right person will be out there.
It is weird......sometimes I get the feeling she doesn't care about me so much, maybe because she was a "owner surrender" of 13 years, by a man. I am a woman.
She loves when she sees other people. Especially men.
I know she is the most well behaved and polite and sweet dog ever was.

I am so depressed! I am giving away my pet (lab, 2 months old) tomorrow. In my family, my brother and dad love him but my mom cannot stand dogs. we got him this week itself and was hoping that she will turn around. i have been with him for only 4 days! but i feel like his mother. every time he looks at me, licks me. I clean him, feed him! and now he will be with some other family. i love him and i am losing my son! :( I feel like dying without him..

I'm losing my mind. I gave up my dog yesterday bc I wanted him to get more attention and love but Im selfish. I want his unconditional love back. I love him so much!

I may have to give back my rescued 7month GDS to the rescuce centre its breaking my heart. We are fostering him at the moment & have fallen head over heals for him....but dont think we can adopt him...as I think he deserves so much more than I can give him!

I have been without my lhasa's now for around a year. For me it was a mistake getting rid of my 2 adorable little lhasa's but its a mistake i will not repeat again. I Just hope there safe and being well looked after they way i looked after them and im sure there thinking about me like im thinking about them.

i gave away my 2 lhasa apso's as they were really bad barkers and would keep me awake at night with the barking. I had them for 3 years and i miss them heaps now and i wish i kept them. I can't get them back either which makes it worse but theres nothing i can do. I know next time if i get a pet i will not be getting rid of any pets i get as they become like a son or daughter. So now i live with the sadness that i don't have them anymore.

I had my dog, Tobey, for 8 years. He was the sweetest, lapdog ever! Anytime I was upset or even made a slight sigh he was in my lap comforting me.
He was always aggressive with other dogs but not people. It wasn't until my daughter was 2 that he bit her in the face. He had just come back from the vet and she snuck up behind him. It was horrible. We kept him separated from the family for a long while until we allowed him to come around we were just cautious with the kids. He got to the point where he would roll over and let them pet him and he'd play with them. He never did this before. My 2 year old son really took to him. Classifying Tobey as "his" dog. Things were going great, until...
About a month ago, my now 3 year old daughter, went to lean down to give Tobey a kiss goodnight. I couldn't stop it in time before he lunged and bit her in the face. This time it was really bad. I blame myself. We should've found him a new home the first time. Now my beautiful little girl is scarred for life.
I knew there was no way we could keep him this time. I spoke to the vet and placed ads on the Internet looking for someone that had no pets and no children. A week later I found myself putting Tobey in the backseat of a girls car that found my ad on Craigslist. She was younger and lived by herself. I really hope he doesn't feel we abandoned him. I hate him, for what he did to my daughter but I still love him so much it hurts.
When the girl came to get him it happened so fast I really didn't get to say goodbye and I was trying to be strong for my kids. Now it's been almost 2 months and I cry every night and dream of him often. When will it get better? He was my baby for soo long and now he's just gone. My husband doesn't speak of him. My 2 year old son asks when he will be coming home. It breaks my heart.
When the girl came to get him she had said I could visit him. She responded to my first text and said he was doing great but when I texted a couple of weeks ago to see how he was doing she didnt text back. Should I text her again? If I have the opportunity to see him should I or will it make things worse?

My dog of 8 years wasn't getting along with my 2 year old (growling and snapping at him) even through all types of behavioral training so I had to find him a new home. We kept him at home and posted on several humane society community pages. After several dead end requests from people, we found an amazing home for him where he gets the attention he was no longer getting here. They send us pictures and even though it has only been two days, my heart hurts for him. I know he will be happier, I just feel he might be sad and confused right now. Luckily they snuggle with him so he is getting lots of physical contact. But I can't help feeling awful. He was our baby before my human one. But ultimately, we are responsible for our human children over our animal ones. But still....

I had to give away my dog away and i've had him for 2 years now i really miss him im crying so much :((((

I just can't believe what anyone of you says! There is NO way the situation with the apartment is unresolvable. All of you are simply trying to find a reason to justify giving your dog away! Have you ever been to a city dog shelter?! Go and take a look! I volunteer there to give love to dogs that people like you threw out! Shame on you! Shame on you! The dogs are constantly crying, they do not get enough food, and once they get sick - they are on the death row. I cannot imagine giving away my Pit Killer, he is my child, my best friend. All of you irresponsible people, how can you give your dogs away? This is not love, so stop posting your tearful messages. People like you should not have had a dog in the first place.