Today, I was taking out the trash and I came upon a bill from a veterinary hospital. It was for $50 and it was a bill to put my dog down. My Dad said my dog was missing and I put hundreds of signs around the city. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my mother informed me that she sold my dog to pay off some bills. FML
Today, I lost my dog and so I put up 'lost' signs. As I was coming back home I noticed one had been written on. It said: "Found your dog. Keeping it". FML
Today, I took my son for a walk to tell him about the passing of our family dog. As we were walking by the river, Ozzy (our deceased dog) was laying on the riverbank. My son thought he just ran away and we found him. Turns out my husband was too cheap to pay the 100$ vet disposal fees. FML
Today, I went on a run with the family dog. I returned home to three missed calls and a hysterical voicemail from my dad. Why? The dog was gone. Not me, his 15 year-old daughter, the dog. FML
Today, I went to my father's house to get my dog, since I had left it with him while I was on a business trip. When I got there, my dad said the dog pooped on the floor a few days ago, and so he took him to the pound. FML
Today, I called my mother to check up on her. Lately, she's been having some financial problems, so last week I sent her my last $100 to help her out until her next paycheck. She used the money to euthanize the family dog. FML
Today, I was outside searching for "treasures" with my son using small plastic shovels. All of a sudden he starts screaming. He dug up the bones of our old dog. I told him that we had sent him away to live on a farm, I even helped my son write letters to the farm owners. FML
Today, I received a $100 bill in the mail as a late graduation present. I placed it on the table so I could go to the bathroom. I come back to find the table empty and my $100 bill missing. The fan blew the money on the floor and my 8 week old puppy ate it. FML
Today, my dog died. I spent ages digging him a grave and buried him in the garden so that my dad wouldn't have to deal with the stress when he got home from work. When my dad got home he told me that he had wanted the dog to be cremated. I have just had to dig up my dog's body. FML
Today, I got a huge bill through the post. It turns out that my elderly mother made the vet come out to my house to see the dog while I was out, because she was scared of the little growths she had found on his body. They were nipples. FML
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ChelsiGotSpunk 0
Aw, dude that sucks. Your dad is a bitch.
Indiana_fml 4
Wow, I can't find the appropriate words for your dad...so I just say: Whatever bad happens to him in life, he will totally deserve it.
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tWitt3rBuG 0
Sorry! WTF, maybe he was protecting you from the hurt of knowing that your dog was put down as compared to him getting lost. Trust me i know. My first dog was lost and that gives you more closure to a certain degree, than willingly making that decision to put him down. You found that bill by mistake so that's what complicates this issue. Had you not found it you would never have known the truth. But now that you have, don't be angry with you dad. There must've been a very valid reason. In any case, euthanasia should be a family decision. Sorry :-(
AnnieSure 0
What the **** is wrong with your dad? He just doesn't kill animals. And not dogs. Not yours.
butter_flew 0
i'm sorry about that. ;(
zandar 0
Was your dog old or sick? There might be more to the story. But I agree, that totally sucks.
airplanefood 0
Wait why is everyone flaming the dad? I immediately took the story as the dog was sick and needed to be put down, but the dad didn't want to break the news to OP that way and told him that he was lost instead. This happens all the time when parents don't want their kids to see their pet being put down. Am I totally reading this wrong? The dog had to have been sick for the vet to put it down. Either way, FYL, and sorry for your loss.
catatonicsleep 17
I don't think dogs get put down unless they're sick, you can't just go and say "this dog is a pain in the ass" and have the vet give it a shot. But your Dad should have talked with you about your dog rather than just getting it put down and not telling you. My Dad told me why my dog had to be put down and I was only 7, you are surely old enough to understand if a 7 year old can.
LordMinion 9
Legally they can, most vets won't, but some will. There's a story circulating up in CT around where I live about a woman who has gone to the vet not once, but twice, and had a perfectly healthy dogs put to sleep. One because he "had diarrhea" and another because "He was chewing on his toys too fast and choking on the pieces ". This was found out when a rescue group that I volunteer for did a vet reference check while she was applying to get ANOTHER dog. She lied and said she had only had an older dog that had died of natural causes (Both were under 18 months!). But the vet in question is quickly losing business because the lady walked in with two perfectly healthy dogs, and wound up having them put to sleep for no good reason. Not saying this was the case, but it DOES happen!
Yulia_fml 0
#18, the kicker is that OP posted all those flyers to find the lost dog. It's messed up of the dad not to tell his son the truth once he realized how determined he was to find the dog.
OMGQueenB 0
I'm agreeing with #18. You don't put dogs down unless they're ill, so it's likely that the dad was just protecting the OP from the hurt of knowing the dog was too old / sick. FYL. And #19, it might not necessarily be not understanding why the dog has to be put down, more that some people see their pets as part of the family, and it'd be upsetting to have it die.
someguy945 0
Do you always go through the garbage before you take it outside? That must be very time consuming and dirty.
Monado 0
Quiet, #23, going through people's garbage makes him feel good.