Grounds for Divorce??

Thats fucking horrible! Why did she do that?!

I'm guessing this is just one instance in a long line, right? Very not cool. Can you get the pup back?

Start giving her shit away as well.

That's fucked up man.  Sorry to hear it.  What is it with some people and dogs?

I had a friend who adopted a dog while in grad school.  He was feeling particularly stressed at one point, so he asked his parents to temporarily watch the dog while he was dealing with finals.  They obliged for about a week, and then without consulting him, had it put down.  I would've adopted it, had I known its life was literally in danger.  Seriously... what the fuck?

Does your wife have half white/half black hair and smoke cigarettes out of one of those old-timey pipetes, perchance?

I think this rolls up under "irreconcilable differences."

I would stay away from the Chinese restaurant down the street for awhile.

Perhaps you should start giving away your penis to other women.

But really, I assumed this would be about infidelity, and my initial response was going to be, "if you really have a strong foundation you can weather any storm and work through it," blah blah blah. But giving your dog away? FUCK THAT.

This is what I like to call a 'red flag'. She's stone-cold psychotic. Cut bait immediately.

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Perhaps you should start giving away your penis to other women.

Someone give this man an afternoon talk show.

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Originally Posted by EdBighead 

My wife gave my fucking dog away when I was at work!! FUCK!! We agreed to keep him. I go to work and BAM! He's gone!! How you gonna give a man's dog away when he's at work? Can't say goodbye or nothing?

I get the feeling we need a little more context here.

Holy Jesus, I nearly shat myself. I loved that man. I am young, but my parents loved him so much I own several of his books and still have an old tape of his comedy and singing around here somewhere.

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Perhaps you should start giving away your penis to other women.

 

But really, I assumed this would be about infidelity, and my initial response was going to be, "if you really have a strong foundation you can weather any storm and work through it," blah blah blah. But giving your dog away? FUCK THAT.

 

This is what I like to call a 'red flag'. She's stone-cold psychotic. Cut bait immediately.

Agreed, this is wrong for so many reasons. Relationships DO need to be built on a strong foundation, and goddamn she just bulldozed the hell out of yours. Then she used a jackhammer. Then she set the rubble on fire.

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That's fucked up man.  Sorry to hear it.  What is it with some people and dogs?

 

I had a friend who adopted a dog while in grad school.  He was feeling particularly stressed at one point, so he asked his parents to temporarily watch the dog while he was dealing with finals.  They obliged for about a week, and then without consulting him, had it put down.  I would've adopted it, had I known its life was literally in danger.  Seriously... what the fuck?

You just totally blew my mind. Seriously? I can't even imagine what I'd do if my parents did that to me, but there would be blood.

I bet poor banned Domingo is reading this thread and just ITCHING to reply.

Who cares? It was only a dog.

Douchebag.

In this case mr. EdBighead, you need to provide some context. Because if this was just her being an asshole, it's cut and run time. 

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This is what I like to call a 'red flag'. She's stone-cold psychotic. Cut bait immediately.

We have a winner. GTFO that relationship immediately. (Or, in Dan Savage parlance, DTMFA.)

Context would be helpful, but giving away the dog is pretty much going nuclear. The ground's been salted, mined, and made radioactive for the next 10,000 years. Time to go.

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Holy Jesus, I nearly shat myself. I loved that man. I am young, but my parents loved him so much I own several of his books and still have an old tape of his comedy and singing around here somewhere.

My father was a huge fan.  He has all his books, two or three signed; all his audio tapes, we saw him in concert once when I was a kid and purchased limited edition prints of the Mike Luckovich cartoon from the AJC when he passed away.  An absolute American treasure along the lines of Mark Twain.

I still regularly share his stories/jokes with people.

But, yes, back to more context.

EdBigHead, was the dog sick?  Where you not taking care of it properly?  Was she allergic to it?  Did it attack someone and had to go?  Maybe he's a hoarder of animals, and this is one of 6 dogs living in a one bedroom apartment that doesn't even allow dogs?  Something is a miss.... 

How long had the dog been dead?

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You just totally blew my mind. Seriously? I can't even imagine what I'd do if my parents did that to me, but there would be blood.

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How long had the dog been dead?

This made me laugh more than I feel comfortable admitting...

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As far as I know, my friend has forgiven them and moved on.  His then girlfriend, now wife... not so much.  When/if they have children, I imagine she'll be somewhat reticent to let them visit the grandparents for the weekend.

 

"Hey mom, can I talk to Billy?"

"Sorry honey, he kept running around in the house so your dad took him out in the back yard and killed him with a shovel."

"Oh, mom! Will you guys ever learn? Honey, come listen to what mom and dad did again!"

Better hope she's also not giving away her "Kitty", if you know what I mean.

Seriously, this stinks to high heaven the more this thread drags out - either this guys not telling us anywhere near the whole story here, or he is and he was foolish enough to get involved with a psychpath.

Either way, without some follow up and more information, it's really hard to muster any sympathy here.

This is worse then a AMA on Reddit. We need more info here. 

If there is nothing more to the story, then yes it's grounds for divorce 

Is "my dog" what you call your box of porn?

I had something similar happen, well along the same vein but anyway. I was with a chick that bought a so ugly he was cute pure bred shih-tzu. Awesome little dog, the kids loved him, etc. So she's fine during the puppy stage but doesn't really do shit with him. I start training him, my kids help out. We get him to the point he's house broken and can actually do some cool stuff. For such an ugly little bastard he was really smart and took to tricks like a duck to water.

So it's a day like any other, I head to work the kids are at school. I grab the kids, come home and the dog is gone. So I'm like, "Where's the dog?" and she says pretty casually, "I didn't like him, he was always biting me so I took him to the Humane Society." Granted he did bite a little bit but at that point he was only a little over a year old. The kids were crushed.

I've got an American Staffordshire Terrier and she'd never threatened to take him away. I guess because the shih-tzu was her dog she felt like she could do that. My girls and I had become pretty attatched though.

People can do some really odd things. A good friend of mine had something similar to Scottie's friends story. He had this old hound dog and his mom and dad decided, while he was on our senior trip, to have the dog put down.

There is also the fact that some people see animals - and pets in particular - as property rather than as a living creature, no better than an old TV set. These are people I like to file away under "congratulations, you're officially what's wrong with the world"

People shouldn't have pets if they don't plan to keep them.  I'd say more but i would probabaly go on a rant.

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People shouldn't have pets if they don't plan to keep them.  I'd say more but i would probabaly go on a rant.

As an owner of two gorgeous dogs, part of me wants to rant with you, but my guts telling me we need more info.

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This is worse then a AMA on Reddit. We need more info here. 

Yeah, I'm actually on the point of calling shenanigans, since the OP hasn't responded to anything. I think we've been trolled.

That she brought home. This muddies the waters, obviously.

But technically, it was initially her choice to introduce the dog into the home. And it didn't work for her. Does she work, or would she be at home in the day with the dog?

I feel like I'm in Everybody Loves Raymond.

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I had him for over three months and we were tight. I walked him. I fed him in the morning and when I got home. i played with him. He was up my ass not hers. She was looking for a little "purse" dog and he was too high drive for that shit. I loved him cause he was a survivor...a little bad-ass. She said he stressed her out so out he went.

Anyone who wants a dog as a fashion accessory is automatically suspect. Get out while you can. I've had dogs big and small, lazy and crazy, and I've loved them all equally. Anyone who can't love the dog they've got* has a moral defect, IMHO

In 90% of cases, what she did will result in the death of that animal at the hands of the shelter. It's extremely awful

*I had a dog one time, CODE NAME: Ginger, that was truly crazy. As in, she must have had some sort of defect or mental illness. We got her as a puppy, and she was constantly aggressive, attacking us, attacking stuff. She'd chase me from room to room, I'd flee in terror and could only escape by jumping up on a bed or something she couldn't reach. Everyone worried about what she'd be like when she got bigger, but then after six weeks, she attacked a LOST WORLD JURASSIC PARK plastic pop corn holder and died, choked to death on a shard of plastic in the yard

It was a tragic ending.. I feel very badly about how things went down. Ultimately though, she was not meant for this world, and was not a meant to live with people. Perhaps it was genetics, I don't know, but it also wasn't our fault

Jesus fucking Christ.

If the dog is the only thing keeping you happy you've got bigger fish to fry.

Okay. Let's move on to Kate's puppy choking to death.

Please take no offense from what I'm about to say, and keep in mind I don't even believe in marriage in the first place but...

At what point do you begin to live for yourself? 17 years is a big chunk of your life to lose. One day soon you could wake up old and unhappy with your youth but a distant memory. Don't waste another moment. You're trapped with someone who thinks dogs are toys, and casts them aside when she discovers they're animals with needs and feelings. Get out now while you can. Get out while there is still hope

Well, looks like this thread is done.

Yeah, she should have discussed it with you.  But I can understand why she got rid of.  Home alone all day, and your only company is a shit ugly, yippie dog with a prolapsed anus, farting everywhere, and on top of it, is at deaths door.  I assuming that when she gave it away, it was a family or person who wanted the dog and has the time and ability to take care of it.  Probably for the best, if that's the case.