New Sofa vs Dog

[dowie]

Saw this and thought of GD:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/family-branded-heartless-after-explaining-14434217

A man named Nigel recently placed an advert on Gumtree , putting his family's six-year-old Jack Russell up for sale.

The dog, which the family have had since she was just a puppy, apparently has to go because they've just had their house refurbished and don't want her to mess up the new furniture.

What a bunch of ****s.

Now they don't specify in the advert, other than mentioning that the sofa is "really expensive and leather" ( ), but my money is on it also being a corner sofa complete with recliners....

 

[pooley]

really is pathetic!

 

[Malevolence]

Good on him, Jack Russells are hateful little beasts.

 

[Efour]

o... k....

easier to just drive to a forest open the door, bye doggy.
At least they trying to rehouse it.

 

[robfosters]

What a horrible thing to do. Heartless ********!

Nigel is a total loser.

 

[LewisRaz]

What an absolute *******.

 

[Minstadave]

Why not just, you know, close the door to the lounge?

 

[Firestar_3x]

I'm guessing they have gone open plan so have no doors.

 

[.Lethal]

Shocker that the ad has since been taken down. I wonder how much abuse they received through Gumtree.

 

[Dis86]

Shocker that the ad has since been taken down. I wonder how much abuse they received through Gumtree.

Not enough.

 

[wordy]

I volunteer for a dog rescue charity and that’s par the course for excuses of why people want to hand over their dogs really. Amongst such pearlers as “it won’t get off the settee” and “I didn’t know we’d have to feed it” and “we want to go on holiday and don’t want to pay for a boarding kennel, so can you look after it for a couple of weeks?”

Idiots like that are more common than the genuine cases, as genuine people will normally explore other options and view contacting rescue as a last resort.

 

[builder22]

is this real?

 

[MartinPrince]

Good on him, Jack Russells are hateful little beasts.

My best school friend had one that chased me half way down the street so I have no love them but still seems a bit heartless.

 

[JBuk]

People get rid of dogs all the time , would it have made everybody less angry if they had lied and gave a reason people found more valid?

 

[Maximum Triceratops]

People get rid of dogs all the time , would it have made everybody less angry if they had lied and gave a reason people found more valid?

Doesn't make it ok though?

 

[JBuk]

Doesn't make it ok though?

It’s heartless and shallow but getting angry about it is a bit much, like I said , people get their knickers in a twist because they don’t find the reason valid yet would be ok if they agreed with the reasoning, it really doesn’t matter what the reason is because the end effect is still the same , the dog will (hopefully) find a new loving home

 

[builder22]

the ad is so heartless it seems like it's a joke

 

[Roar87]

You would actually need to be a psychopath to have a dog for 6 years and give it away over some furniture

 

[dowie]

People get rid of dogs all the time , would it have made everybody less angry if they had lied and gave a reason people found more valid?

Well yeah, of course it would. It’s the lack of a valid reason that has made the ad go viral to begin with.

Someone say reluctantly rehoming a dog because it has say shown aggression towards their newborn baby or their kid has serious allergies or perhaps because it belonged to a relative who died and they can’t look after it etc... is fairly reasonable.

 

[Jonnybmac]

Not really going to get much interest when you are effectively saying your dog chews stuff and can be vicious