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Brother in law adopted a young dog a week ago.
Very nice pitbull that got along well with people and the other dogs at the gathering, including ours. It had been adopted and given up two times in its life already for no reason of its own (emergency in adopted family life then an unexpected passing of the next adopter). It emotionally bonded so quickly to my brother in law.
Issue is, my brother in law is a mess himself. Young with a lot of personal issues, barely home, and not able to commit to taking care the pup. He impulse adopted the dog and really realized that this past week.
He decided this morning to give it back to the shelter. We, along with other family members offered to take the dog instead of giving it up. He’s a great dog and only needs a bit of training that is expected with any young pup. Brother in law, stubborn as he is, outright refuses any option other than giving it back to the shelter. No care for the realistic hard chance it will have getting adopted again after being given up for a third time. The pup has a real chance for a good life but no, shelter it must go.
The oven also died so no buns.
Edit: We are planning on getting in contact with the shelter he adopted from to see what our options are if he is returned there. We expect to have to fully adopt with everything that entails. We’ll be out some money but the pup will be in an active home instead of a 8x4 cell.
Hopefully there is some thinking done tonight and the pup will be rehomed without the shelter step.
Brother in law, stubborn as he is, outright refuses any option other than giving it back to the shelter.
It’s hard to admit you’ve made such a big mistake. The magnitude of the solution directly relates to the magnitude of the mistake. If you got a jacket that you wind up not liking, no one would be put out if you returned it to the store. He’s only stubborn because he’s trying to convince himself he didn’t fuck up that bad.
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Additional friction, fees, and the real chance that the shelter might not put the little guy back up for adoption.
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Yeah, it might work out if you can get in touch with them ahead of time.
Great username BTW
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People who treat animals like they’re objects belong in a shelter. They should not be allowed to care for pets.
My sister claimed Bill Gates is making Tyson chicken use crushed up crickets in their breading on their chicken nuggets.
That came up on Alex Jones recently. So, uh, sorry, your sister is likely listening to InfoWars or something adjacent. My condolences.
I’m stealing this. That’s fucking hilarious.
That sounds like a great idea. More protein, less carbs, and likely a lower carbon footprint.
Considering chickens eat a lot of bugs, that seems like an excellent way to cut out the middleman
the middleman
The middlechicken
I could believe it. Not because of weird antisemitic-adjacent conspiracy theories but because Tyson chicken already tastes like my front yard
Mom bullshitting about vaccines. In a house where the owners are both scientists.
Cool, so you guys told her how vaccines work and she totally listened and grew that day in both knowledge and as a person right?
Lolbruh
My brother does this, the other 5 of his immediate family are in the life sciences.
My aunts so this, and I feel like I studied STEM in vain.
I should get a small-sized copy of my degree, just so I can slap it down on the table and ask “where’s yours then?”
My family is extremely left wing and religious right wing. So…
“Not enough Israeli civilians are dying.” “Palestinians shouldn’t exist.” “Hamas isn’t evil.” “Trump won the election.” “Jewish culture is a Western invention.” etc
Fun times. Probably my last Thanksgiving with biological family.
Probably my last Thanksgiving with biological family.
Stopped spending all holidays with my bio family three years ago.
Do it.
It’s wonderful.
Anyone else grow up hearing about that one crazy, estranged aunt/uncle who cut ties with the family years prior, only to eventually understand, then become them?
And you make contact and they turn out to be entirely reasonable and someone you’d prefer to spend time with over any of the main family?
Personally, no, but I’ve seen it a lot browsing the drama subs on that old site.
Growing up my dad always complained about his in-laws and would say “be careful, when you marry someone you marry their family!”
And he’s right! I married into a wonderful family that I spend the holidays with.
And if they ask why, be honest about it. Don’t be cruel, but be honest.
So everyone holds atrocious viewpoints just on opposite teams.
Pretty much. What makes it worse is just about everyone was more moderate a decade ago. Everyone’s just gone off the deep end. Never would have thought I’d hear these things from them back then.
One never heard anyone on either side say Hamas isn’t evil or not not enough Israeli civilians are dying.
That’s not a left wing thing, your family is properly fucked.
I have to respectfully disagree. It’s not a “general” leftwing thing. But it certainly is an extremist leftwing thing. Would you consider someone who believes all women should be able to get abortions, China is one of the best countries in the world, and Obama was one of the best presidents we’ve had in half a century a rightwinger? There are quite a few extremists on the left who will happily tell you about a certain race is a “problem”. Not much different than Nazis imo
your family is properly fucked
Agree there 100%.
None.
I spend Thanksgiving at home, alone, with my dogs. It is the absolute best.
My kid argued with me about what one sixteenth of a pie looked like when he was serving me. He tried to give me one eighth and I was already full!
If that was the biggest argument that happened, your family is doing alright.
We are, they are good humans!
Well ours didnt last long, but it was about whether or not gummy bears expand in salt water.
Thankfully the science curriculum of British Columbian universities have settled this already.
Don’t leave us hanging! What’s the verdict?
They absorb water through osmosis when sugar is added, and shrink when salt is added
If you add LSD they dance.
They shrink accordingly to this
Seems to be a big homeschool experiment
Well, do they?
Post-dinner, boys went downstairs and argued about football bets and whether or not the losers of a card game had to take shots.
Girls upstairs, I’m told and overheard, had a passionate discussion with Grandma about gay people.
One more vote for ‘better to be male’
Turkey. Fried or Baked. Baked won, as is right.
Smoked.
Rotisserie. The only way to cook a turkey.
Whether we should cook the turkey medium or medium rare. Medium rare won, thank God. /S
Almost got to drop the “well, pass the arsenic, that’s natural” line, but the conversation got derailed before it reached that.
I personally like “hungry bears are natural too, but I don’t keep any of those of in the kitchen either”
my conservative relativemanaged to get through the entire thing with the only argument being her insisting that I have more pie. I am extremely thankful this thanksgiving.
We don’t do thanksgiving over here in the Netherlands, but we DID just elect a bunch of super conservative xenofobes as the largest party, so I’ll give you one guess.
I did not have a dinner this year. It was to involve Niagara Falls, but then the car explosion occurred yesterday and the fear of terror deterred any activity today except the flurries that surround me.
Child 1 said their friend did a thing. Child 2 then started they did that too, but better. Said friend was not present, but somehow child 2 was still trying to compete with them. Smh
Kids, am I right?
