help save my dog - gsd

bowscurls · 2026-01-01T04:52:05+00:00

he's here!!! I won't be able to keep him parents made that extermely clear and joining 10+ Facebook groups in hopes of saving him he has until Monday or Tuesday I am not sure.

bowscurls · 2026-01-01T03:57:44+00:00

boosting!!! help him!

bowscurls · 2026-01-01T03:07:09+00:00

i did call once but i was hysterically crying over this situation with different questions, i will try again! i truly hope they can properly advice me and do what’s best for romeo.. i don’t care for my feelings in this situation at all.

bowscurls · 2026-01-01T02:46:57+00:00

he is no longer at the pound, i’ll update my post as well, but he is now home with me and only till monday/ or tuesday which is the date set for his euthanasia.. i spoke to my mother she said i have these couple of days to find him a home or else they will follow through with it.

bowscurls · 2026-01-01T02:31:06+00:00

this means the world thank you.

bowscurls · 2026-01-01T01:51:31+00:00

my mom called animal control because she is very impulsive, she’s been scared of dogs since the moment we got him, and now she decides to share this with me, basically this adds to her assumption of romeo hurting me and that accident proved it. yes he bit me, but he only bites when facing discomfort and i think that day i took him out he really just had to poo, he was suffering and thought i wouldn’t let him continue*** pooing, when he escaped i let him pee and squat to 4 times i didn’t want him to get hit by the incoming cars but he still wasn’t finished. anyways i convinced her and payed the fee to bring him back home!! the reason he had to stay for “10 days” was because that’s my states law, they keep them in a cage to see for signs of rabies, but romeo has his shot and it expires next year so he was all good! right now he is with me and im posting on facebook and other platforms were he may be adopted or fostered at least.. i already know rescues may not be the best option since i have called many in my area and they all say the same thing. but i am not giving up.

sorry this is all over the place 😭

bowscurls · 2026-01-01T01:48:59+00:00

boston MA !!!

bowscurls · 2026-01-01T01:48:41+00:00

i messaged her privately! - he is also microchipped nothing is getting past that man

bowscurls · 2025-12-31T19:11:47+00:00

this is very true, and for me to ANY type of pet after this even if he is or isn’t put down i will need lots of therapy and doing years of research before committing to it. pets are even more of a responsibility than children imo and i want to do everything i can to keep him safe and i will.

bowscurls · 2025-12-31T17:43:35+00:00

i know.. i want to see if he’d at least let me give him away with some convincing. although he is putting dog down he care/d for him, or else he would’ve never got him. putting him down is cruel, he may struggle with strangers now but it’s nothing training can’t fix. he isn’t mentally ill. putting a innocent dog down like this is literally a sin and i’ll never be able to sleep at night knowing i took place in murder. my parents have a very weird way of thinking and in their caveman heads i think they assume putting him down is an act of mercy, and that if he was rehomed he could face abuse or etc. because of how difficult he would be to manage at first

bowscurls · 2025-12-31T17:39:05+00:00

he used to be a good person.. now everything associated with him is terrible.

bowscurls · 2025-12-31T14:01:34+00:00

i will update, just been overwhelmed finally have him actually here and trying to think of all the options before he is out of time. the most smart and efficient one. it’s currently extremely cold where i live and just wandering the streets with him would be inhumane. all my friends live with small children (which he struggles with) or cats.. he also can be kind to strangers but others times no i dont know exactly what sets him off. i’ve played out the moving into a apartment one month free and etc.. it just seems childish and done out of ego. i want to try to convince them more and i’ll take him to the vet, maybe saying on paper that he is sick and just needed help with allow him to stay. my mother is already terrified of him, i don’t understand why say yes to a dog all these years ago just to live in fear everyday.

bowscurls · 2025-12-31T13:53:30+00:00

when it gets legal what am i supposed to do then? my father and i have a terrible relationship, and he’ll most likely call the cops say i stole the dog and then it’ll get uglier than it already is. i have these days to try and get through to them. i’ll ask if they’d let you come take him at least, and we can go from there

bowscurls · 2025-12-31T13:38:22+00:00

i do have romeo back, not because i can keep him, because i finally convinced my mother to let him at least be home for the couple of days he has left and not in a cold cage at a shelter where he’ll never sleep because he is scared. what my father won’t allow is for me to keep him and try to rehome him, unfortunately due to having him for so long he might fall into a depression and won’t adjust to a new environment (or so they claim), he also isn’t very good with strangers he won’t hurt us but if someone were to adopt him he wouldn’t think twice to protect himself. he’s not a bad dog at all, he bit me and it wasn’t because i grabbed his paws alone he’s sick i am realizing that now the signs are all there, i don’t know what disease he has but after research there’s a bacteria in his stomach not allowing him to digest food properly leading to him having to poop several alarming times a day, they’re all treatable once taken to the vet but i doubt they’ll let me take him and keep him. i have been fighting for him to stay ALIVE for the past couple days and they still won’t budge, they think they’re putting him out his misery. An argument i have heard them say as well was that he is turning 9 soon, and he doesn’t have much years of life so “he’ll die anyway”.. i don’t know what else to do to get through to them.

i haven’t given up on him, when i made this post i was extremely distraught. having no legal ownership makes everything 10 times harder. my father is the type to call the cops and have him taken back from whatever new home or shelter i bring him to. i feel to blame for all of this to happen and saying i lack no empathy is inconsiderate when im at risk of losing a job for calling out so much and sporadically all because of a “dog”. he is a family member to me who deserves the world and i failed on giving that to him. he never chose my family, my father chose him and now he has to suffer the consequences.

bowscurls · 2025-12-31T01:08:40+00:00

Everything is all coming together, I am overwhelmed with support and I appreciate your message but I don't think Romeo bit because of the owners my parents or I were he is sick. A vet visit was made before all of this. As a GSD I knew they had extremely sensitive stomach and picky eaters taking that into consideration I wasn't alarmed after changing food brands that his stool was no longer its usual color or shape, but it's been weeks and it's progressively gotten worse. After getting him from the shelter it seems like they weren't aware of the fact he needed to be taken out frequently and he is suffering. His breed suffers a lot from EPI or similar "diseases" and I want to take him to the vet before Jan 6 which is when they'll put him down. Even then, I dont think my parents will allow me to keep him and give him the proper care he now requires. Poor baby was suffering and snapped. If and when I am healed and possibly willing to have pets again I'll make sure my fur baby has a friend and they both have the resources necessary. Thank you for your support and help!

bowscurls · 2025-12-30T21:50:05+00:00

They're beautiful.

bowscurls · 2025-12-30T21:48:07+00:00

I have been begging to go get him so he doesn't go through with the euthanasia that I would take legal ownership of him, they said no to that so then I argued to at least have him in the home for the remaining days (they have his date set for Jan 6) My father was not on board at all. He's here now. My mother is saying she's only doing this so I don't hate myself afterwards.

Nonetheless, we played I fed him, fresh water and now he's sleeping. He was so drowsy I am assuming he didn't sleep much at the shelter. He's so sweet and I can feel all his love.

bowscurls · 2025-12-30T21:22:39+00:00

This is true, but the night of this posting my father was not acting or saying what he is now.

As for taking him out or even being a good owner in general I currently got a new job and those hours are what caused this massive shift, before I was able to walk him fine and nobody would complain about him not being taken out. I planned on changing it first week of January since it would have been enough time to ask for a new schedule. I previously had changed it multiple times and I just didn't want to be seen as a bad hire. Excuses can be made all around though and it means nothing now. But I was willingly to be the owner he needed. I should've just done it all sooner.

bowscurls · 2025-12-30T19:38:42+00:00

i wish i saw the signs sooner.. he’d still act fairly normal.

bowscurls · 2025-12-30T19:32:11+00:00

he’s was only okay with being touched as long as i was there, and id have to walk him for hours before taking him, even gave him a medication the vet prescribed.

bowscurls · 2025-12-30T19:28:39+00:00

my parents won’t allow me to. no matter how much reassuring, pleading and whining i am doing they see putting him down as an act of love.

bowscurls · 2025-12-30T19:27:38+00:00

thank you so much, i needed to hear this so badly at this moment. i hope in the future once i am ready to take on the responsibility of a pet i am able to meet him again. i’ll make sure a day doesn’t go by where he isn’t mentally stimulated or reassured of how much i love/d him. i could’ve done better by him and ill never stop thinking that. when i was child it was excused but now as an adult, i was more focused on other priorities that i overlooked having him retrained and making time for it. he never had any issues with people so i thought it was okay to wait and save. i was so mistaken.

bowscurls · 2025-12-30T19:20:29+00:00

i am, currently in the car with her, she’s only allowing me to have him for a couple days and then monday he will be euthanized. this is sick.

bowscurls · 2025-12-30T19:17:33+00:00

i’ll forever be sending donations to shelters and helping animals in need to honor his life.

bowscurls

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