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So I think my room mate just bought a dog

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hold on. she works 4 10 hour days? SHE SHOULD NOT HAVE A PUPPY!

so it is either going to be free to shit all over the apartment or locked in a cage. if its free to room the apartment it is never going to be trained. if it is locked in a cage then that is just mean.

edit: while i love animals, i would be talking to the landlord to try to either get out of the lease and find a different roommate.

she is being immature. sure the apartment will let her get a pet. BUT that is only part of it. the roommate needs to be OK with it also. to just go do it when the other people living in the house is inconsiderate.

 
Blue healer border collie mixes are cute pups but will be a fairly big dog and needs space to run, not an apartment dog at all. Keeping one pent up in an apartment would be cruel IMO.
 
Woke her up at 5 AM today by knocking on her door until she answered. She was pissed, and I asked her if she expected a puppy to wait for her to wake up on her own time. I offered to buy her breakfast, figuring that she would more or less be forced to talk to me. After about an hour of talking, during which I felt more like I was lecturing her on how much trouble a dog can be when it's a puppy, I think she might be reconsidering it.

At this point though, I wonder what she can do about it? She paid for it at the local humane society, and took it home, and though I'm not any sort of expert in the field, I somehow don't see dogs having the same return policy as, say, a DVD player.

Anybody know what her options are?
 
Originally posted by: kyzen
We are still "rationally" discussing things (by rational I mean me talking about ways to keep the dog away from my stuff, and her constantly saying it's her apartment too, a fact I've never disputed), and luckily she can't get the dog in here till Monday at the earliest, as the landlord still needs to OK it & collect their fees.

So far she's agreed to buy me a baby gate for my door, which is inconvenient for me, but it's getting us somewhere at least. I'm also trying to get her to buy it a cage, or keep it on the porch (2nd floor apartment) while she's gone, since she works 4 10.5 hour days a week, and I want nothing to do with the dog at first, at least until she can take care of it on her own.
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how is that inconvenient for you? so you have to spend an extra 5 seconds moving the gate or 2 seconds stepping over it.
 
Originally posted by: pontifex
Originally posted by: kyzen
We are still "rationally" discussing things (by rational I mean me talking about ways to keep the dog away from my stuff, and her constantly saying it's her apartment too, a fact I've never disputed), and luckily she can't get the dog in here till Monday at the earliest, as the landlord still needs to OK it & collect their fees.

So far she's agreed to buy me a baby gate for my door, which is inconvenient for me, but it's getting us somewhere at least. I'm also trying to get her to buy it a cage, or keep it on the porch (2nd floor apartment) while she's gone, since she works 4 10.5 hour days a week, and I want nothing to do with the dog at first, at least until she can take care of it on her own.
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how is that inconvenient for you? so you have to spend an extra 5 seconds moving the gate or 2 seconds stepping over it.
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Are you trying to be a tard or is it genetic.
 
Originally posted by: KK
Originally posted by: pontifex
Originally posted by: kyzen
We are still "rationally" discussing things (by rational I mean me talking about ways to keep the dog away from my stuff, and her constantly saying it's her apartment too, a fact I've never disputed), and luckily she can't get the dog in here till Monday at the earliest, as the landlord still needs to OK it & collect their fees.

So far she's agreed to buy me a baby gate for my door, which is inconvenient for me, but it's getting us somewhere at least. I'm also trying to get her to buy it a cage, or keep it on the porch (2nd floor apartment) while she's gone, since she works 4 10.5 hour days a week, and I want nothing to do with the dog at first, at least until she can take care of it on her own.
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how is that inconvenient for you? so you have to spend an extra 5 seconds moving the gate or 2 seconds stepping over it.
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Are you trying to be a tard or is it genetic.
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so you think the baby gate is an inconvenience? an extra 5 seconds at most is going to ruin your life? man, you guys must all be pampered or something.
 
Originally posted by: pontifex
Originally posted by: KK
Originally posted by: pontifex
Originally posted by: kyzen
We are still "rationally" discussing things (by rational I mean me talking about ways to keep the dog away from my stuff, and her constantly saying it's her apartment too, a fact I've never disputed), and luckily she can't get the dog in here till Monday at the earliest, as the landlord still needs to OK it & collect their fees.

So far she's agreed to buy me a baby gate for my door, which is inconvenient for me, but it's getting us somewhere at least. I'm also trying to get her to buy it a cage, or keep it on the porch (2nd floor apartment) while she's gone, since she works 4 10.5 hour days a week, and I want nothing to do with the dog at first, at least until she can take care of it on her own.
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how is that inconvenient for you? so you have to spend an extra 5 seconds moving the gate or 2 seconds stepping over it.
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Are you trying to be a tard or is it genetic.
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so you think the baby gate is an inconvenience? an extra 5 seconds at most is going to ruin your life? man, you guys must all be pampered or something.
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Yes, it's an inconvenience. I for one, would not want to have to hurdle over a gate to get into my room, especially when I did not want the reason I had to put the gate up in the first place.
 
Woke her up at 5 AM today by knocking on her door until she answered. She was pissed, and I asked her if she expected a puppy to wait for her to wake up on her own time.
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Wtf? I would've kicked you in the fscking face if you did that to me.
 
Hey, man . . . Are you gay? n 🙂

You take that dog out (a border collie puppy!) and you will have to fight through the crowds of wimmen hangin' all over you.
 
Originally posted by: kyzen
At this point though, I wonder what she can do about it? She paid for it at the local humane society, and took it home, and though I'm not any sort of expert in the field, I somehow don't see dogs having the same return policy as, say, a DVD player.

Anybody know what her options are?
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If she loses any money on this whole puppy ordeal, you should reimburse her the difference since you're being a whiny little bitch about the whole situation.
 
Originally posted by: kyzen

Woke her up at 5 AM today by knocking on her door until she answered.
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That was an asshole move.

Pretty sure the humane society will take the dog back. It's not that uncommon for someone to get a dog and realize pretty quickly that the dog is not a good fit for them.
 
Note a blue heeler/collie is going to be a high energy dog. They're work dogs and needs lots of exercise and stimulation. I think an apartment situation with no yard is really bad. I'm surprised that the humane society would adopt the dog to her. Unless she plans on taking the dog out 4-5 times a day for a couple of hours, it's going to have a lot of pent of energy.
 
Originally posted by: kyzen
Woke her up at 5 AM today by knocking on her door until she answered. She was pissed, and I asked her if she expected a puppy to wait for her to wake up on her own time.
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:thumbsup:

 
Originally posted by: tfinch2
Originally posted by: kyzen
At this point though, I wonder what she can do about it? She paid for it at the local humane society, and took it home, and though I'm not any sort of expert in the field, I somehow don't see dogs having the same return policy as, say, a DVD player.

Anybody know what her options are?
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If she loses any money on this whole puppy ordeal, you should reimburse her the difference since you're being a whiny little bitch about the whole situation.
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I think she was being more of a bitch than me. She didn't care what the dog would do to my belongings or my share of the security deposit on the apartment, nor what sort of inconvenience it would cause me. She also automatically assumed that I'd be interested in taking the dog out for her when she wasn't around. None of her friends or even her parents think that she'll take good care of the dog; when we first moved in she made a big deal about getting a lot of plants for the porch and her room, after $200 in plants & pots she's down to one cheap fern. She is on a tight budget for herself; I can't imagine what she'll cut back on in order to feed the thing. All in all it was a really poorly planned move on her part to buy the dog without thinking things through and asking her room mate (me) about it.
 
Woke her up at 5 AM today by knocking on her door until she answered. She was pissed, and I asked her if she expected a puppy to wait for her to wake up on her own time. I offered to buy her breakfast, figuring that she would more or less be forced to talk to me. After about an hour of talking, during which I felt more like I was lecturing her on how much trouble a dog can be when it's a puppy, I think she might be reconsidering it.

At this point though, I wonder what she can do about it? She paid for it at the local humane society, and took it home, and though I'm not any sort of expert in the field, I somehow don't see dogs having the same return policy as, say, a DVD player.

Anybody know what her options are?
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Nice tactic.

We "rescued" one of our cats from the Humane Society. They mentioned he was a "return", so it can be done. I have no idea what the terms are, though.
 
For what it's worth, a similar thing happened to a mate of mine. His girlfriend was constantly talking about getting a puppy and he consistently said "no way". One day she just came home with a little dog, and he was pretty pissed. Now he loves the thing. I know this doesn't help much at this point, but if you do end up having to live with the thing you may just come to like it.

Personally, I love dogs, and I'd be stoked it I were you. I had many dogs growing up so I'm pretty much used to finding shit in the house and having to put expensive belongings up high. It's not that much of a problem, especially compared to the love, company and companionship of a dog.
 
Originally posted by: iamaelephant
For what it's worth, a similar thing happened to a mate of mine. His girlfriend was constantly talking about getting a puppy and he consistently said "no way". One day she just came home with a little dog, and he was pretty pissed. Now he loves the thing. I know this doesn't help much at this point, but if you do end up having to live with the thing you may just come to like it.

Personally, I love dogs, and I'd be stoked it I were you. I had many dogs growing up so I'm pretty much used to finding shit in the house and having to put expensive belongings up high. It's not that much of a problem, especially compared to the love, company and companionship of a dog.
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Yeah, dogs are pretty cool.. and now you get the company of one without the responsibility of cleaning up after it.
 
Ok, OP has a fetish with electronics. I've never known a dog that had any interest in electronics. OP, I can assure you, the dog is not going to try to take you electronics.


Kyzen needs to have his own place and plan on being single the rest of his life, he is so OCD (Obsessive Complulsive Disorder) no one should have to suffer to live with him.

That's all I'm gonna say about this.
 
I was on the OP's side at the start of the therad, but the more I read ... dude, you're being one whiny b!tch
 
Originally posted by: Baloo
Ok, OP has a fetish with electronics. I've never known a dog that had any interest in electronics. OP, I can assure you, the dog is not going to try to take you electronics.


Kyzen needs to have his own place and plan on being single the rest of his life, he is so OCD (Obsessive Complulsive Disorder) no one should have to suffer to live with him.

That's all I'm gonna say about this.
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I've had 3 dogs growing up, 2 were puppies when we got them, and they chewed on everything. I use my various electronics as examples, but in all reality, the dog would probably chew on whatever it could get. My issue is more with the fact that the room mate had flat out refused to take any responsibility for what the dog might do.

I want a dog myself, but I'm waiting until I live somewhere with a yard. Not a small apartment where I won't be home to take care of it. I fail to see how actually taking the dogs well being into consideration (unlike my room mate, who would not be around to take care of it at least 4 days a week, not counting the nights she goes out drinking with her friends) makes me OCD.
 
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