Thank you Christy for sharing this with me...definitely hit very close to home! Christy shared a blog post from the Vanzant family and I wanted to share it with all of you because it's exactly the way I felt about our "boys" and it makes me feel better that another family struggled with the same decision. So...here is the blog post that made me tear up again reading from thevanzantfamily.blogspot.com:
After months and months of debating me and Matt decided it was time to find our dogs a new home. We have 3 labs. Two males and one female. Our female, Roxanne, lives in the house with us and we ARENT selling her! Our males, Ralph and RJ, live outside in an invisible fence. Our invisible fence got struck by lightening a few weeks ago and hasn’t been working ever since. So with the fence broken RJ and Ralph have been roaming and causing a bunch of “unnecessary” dog drama with the neighbors. Ralph is really smart and can get inside a truck to sleep.. well that’s what he has been doing to our neighbors vehicles. And apparently they are “harassing” other dogs too. I am a huge believer in keeping your dogs and pets contained and it drives me crazy that they have been running. It is not like I can run after them either, I am at home with two babies who need my attention. I completely understand why the neighbors are mad, but they don’t keep their dogs contained? Why are you complaining about mine when I ALWAYS have until recently?
Anyways, we have decided to sell our baby boys because we haven't been able to give them the love and attention that they need and deserve. Every since the twins came into our world we have neglected our baby boys. Don’t get me wrong, we love on them as much as we can and we feed them but its still not enough. They need a home where they will be loved on ALL the time.
I put them on craigslist to try and find a loving home for them both. I thought it would be best for them to be separated. We have had a few interests in Ralph and one lady fell in love with RJ. We emailed and text back and forth for a couple of weeks to setup a time and day she could get him. She is a single mom of three girls and they’ve been wanting a dog for a long time. I knew RJ would be perfect because he would love on them and protect them.
We met her on Saturday and RJ went with her to his new home. I hadn't been able to deal with it “emotionally” because I was so busy trying to find a new home for them. Well, Saturday came and my emotions did too. I cried like a big baby all day long. I knew it was the best for him but he was my baby boy, before I had an actual baby boy. RJ was such a momma’s boy. He use to follow me around and sit in my lap. I love him so much and it was so hard saying goodbye,
We met her at Wal-Mart and when we got out of the truck he ran up to her and peed on her!! He's never done anything like that before hah! I guess he was just “marking” his new mommy. She was so sweet and she thought it was funny. I said goodbye and gave him a hug, then got in the truck and the tears just started rolling. My baby boy had left, he was gone and had went to a new home. It makes my heart ache but I know its best.
She texted me pics of him and his new home all day long. It made me feel so good. She text me pictures of him cuddling with her girls and asleep in her bed. I truly couldn’t have found a better home for him. I'm so grateful to her and he family for caring for him so much. I hope he is wonderful to them and has a great life. They live about 3 hours away so we plan on going to visit him in the fall;)
Goodbye sweet boy, we love you so much and always will.
On a side note, Barley & Roscoe continue to do really well with their new mommy. I do stay in touch with her and although we haven't gone to see them, she does send me pictures. The door is open to us but I am not sure I would be able to leave them again...so we just have to make due with the pictures from her. They do go and stay with our old dog sitter when their new mommy has to go out of town too.
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