Question For Dog Owners.....

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divagirl

Cathlete
Let's say you were offered a better job opportunity with about a $15,000 increase in pay and couldn't bring your dog (that you desperately love) but a family member would take care of them. You'd have to drive an hour to see your own dog. Would you do it? This is a decision I'm facing right now.
 
Probably, because chances are pretty good that with the increased pay (and happier position), you could get yourself to a place where the dog is allowed.

Is he not allowed in the apartment complex? Is this the live-in situation with the boyfriend? Would he consider finding a new place with you where you could have the dog? (Actually, that might be a good test of the new situation. On the other hand, if he has a house and just doesn't WANT the dog...)
 
I would never move anywhere without my dogs unless it was very short term. If I did, I would try to find a place to live where they were allowed too asap. Is the issue with where you will be living not allowing pets? Would this be a permanent solution or a temporary one?
 
I can't imagine not taking my dogs with me.

I would also worry that at some point the family member might not be able or not want to care for your dogs.

Of course, my dogs are like family to me.
 
Nope. I've broken the bank in the past & eaten tuna out of a can 3X a day to rent a house w/a fenced in yard so I could bring my dogs. I'd live in a tent if I had to as long as I could have my pups w/me.
 
It's a job to manage an apartment community that I "have" to live at and they do not allow dogs at the moment. It could change in the future but I can't bank on it. My dog is my baby and I really don't think I could ever leave him. Part of me thinks that he's my family and the other thinks am I stalling my career over a pet. In the end I may have to say either you take me and the dog or forget it in which case I'll probably lose but oh well.
 
Yeah, probably. As long as the dog will have a loving home and the job offered more than just better pay (i.e. you'll enjoy it and grow).
 
I have nightmares that something might happen to my puggie and I could never, ever leave her. She is like a child to me.
Laura
 
My Aussie puppy is sitting beside me at work right now. No way could I abandon him. Is there any other jobs out there that interest you? If you found one like that, you can find another - and maybe one where you can bring your dog.
 
My baby boy (Jax - miniature doxie) is sitting behind me with his head around on my leg. I absolutely could not go without my dogs.
 
The question, for me, would be the same as if you asked if anyone would take a job with an $15,000 increase in pay if they had to send their children to live with a relative and drive an hour to see them. My dogs ARE my children (I don't plan on that changing when we do have a child of our own. I have plenty of friends who have children and their dogs are still as special to them as they were before). My dogs bring me WAY too much joy, peace, love, laughter, serenity, etc. to ever consider leaving them with someone else. We are a family and we go together. I would have to be dying and unable to care for them at all for me to let them go somewhere else and I would never seperate them. I would never cause them any harm or suffering, so if I was incapable of caring for them, I would do the best for them. But...for a job or a nicer house, etc., no way!

Now I need to go hug my pups (all five of them!). :)

Lorie
 
My sister took my black lab for me about 6 years or so ago, as we were leaving the military (very fast paced time) and couldn't find a place that accepted pets at the time. My kitty also went to a new home with our neighbors.

If I had to do it all over, I would NEVER do that again. I still cry and miss them everyday. Whenever, we visit my sister's we see our "fur-baby" and she looks at us so sad. The day we were loading our moving truck, my beautiful calico baby, escaped from her new home and ran down the street to our house and meowed, and meowed to let her back in. My heart is forever crushed, not one day goes by that I regret my decision. It will forever haunt me...

But that's me, it's really your individual situation.

Good luck with your decision...

Carrie

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Its nice to see that so many people feel the same as I do. My dog is my baby and to leave him would take away all the love and joy I feel everyday with him. This job would help me tremendously in many ways but we go as a package deal or we don't go at all. We'll see what happens.
 
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