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This is Mercy. She's a Beagle/Foxhound mix, a 4-year-old pound rescue.
You guys have already heard about Mercy, the dog who lives with me and my three housemates, two other dogs, and one hamster. She's not my dog; she's my housemate's; but she and I are the two people who really like Mercy. She's had a lot of behavior problems in the past, including constant barking, house-soiling, and escaping from the fenced yard, even when tied down by a 20-foot rope and harness.
Her behavior problems have gotten much better since she was re-adopted by her current owner after a former housemate left her here (she was moving to Russia). So this isn't a huge problem anymore.
Yesterday it turned out that another of my housemates--not so coincidentally, the one who insists she's so allergic to cats that I can't have one--doesn't like Mercy one bit, though she thinks Mercy's a bit more tolerable now that she's behaving for the most part. I know she dislikes Mercy because she told me so.
Mercy was taken out of the pound by a former housemate, who I think may have neglected her. Apparently she kept her in her crate so long that she had to pee, then didn't clean up the pee for a week... So the problems that probably put her into the pound didn't get helped at all by this rather negligent owner.
My current housemate, during this time, grew to hate Mercy for her barking and house-soiling. So, apparently, as she told me yesterday, she thought of her own solution: During the time Mercy was owned by our former housemate, she put Mercy outside--in the unfenced front yard. Repeatedly.
So, basically, my housemate has just admitted to putting a dog--someone else's dog at that--out of the house, hoping it will be lost or hit by a car. She said this in such a nonchalant manner... as though it were something anybody would do, perfectly understandable.
No wonder Mercy is so good at escaping. She was literally trained to think it was OK to be out in the neighborhood on her own.
I haven't told Mercy's current owner about this. It would cause unnecessary strife between housemates who already have problems. But I had to vent somewhere, so here I am.
You guys have already heard about Mercy, the dog who lives with me and my three housemates, two other dogs, and one hamster. She's not my dog; she's my housemate's; but she and I are the two people who really like Mercy. She's had a lot of behavior problems in the past, including constant barking, house-soiling, and escaping from the fenced yard, even when tied down by a 20-foot rope and harness.
Her behavior problems have gotten much better since she was re-adopted by her current owner after a former housemate left her here (she was moving to Russia). So this isn't a huge problem anymore.
Yesterday it turned out that another of my housemates--not so coincidentally, the one who insists she's so allergic to cats that I can't have one--doesn't like Mercy one bit, though she thinks Mercy's a bit more tolerable now that she's behaving for the most part. I know she dislikes Mercy because she told me so.
Mercy was taken out of the pound by a former housemate, who I think may have neglected her. Apparently she kept her in her crate so long that she had to pee, then didn't clean up the pee for a week... So the problems that probably put her into the pound didn't get helped at all by this rather negligent owner.
My current housemate, during this time, grew to hate Mercy for her barking and house-soiling. So, apparently, as she told me yesterday, she thought of her own solution: During the time Mercy was owned by our former housemate, she put Mercy outside--in the unfenced front yard. Repeatedly.
So, basically, my housemate has just admitted to putting a dog--someone else's dog at that--out of the house, hoping it will be lost or hit by a car. She said this in such a nonchalant manner... as though it were something anybody would do, perfectly understandable.
No wonder Mercy is so good at escaping. She was literally trained to think it was OK to be out in the neighborhood on her own.
I haven't told Mercy's current owner about this. It would cause unnecessary strife between housemates who already have problems. But I had to vent somewhere, so here I am.