Hey guys...We have a another dilemma to solve in our process for building our home...What are we going to do with three Dalmations...1 adult male, 1 adult female, and a 1 year old male...We would love to keep them, but the back yard is going to be for the kids. As we are living now, the dogs are in the backyard, and the kids play in the front yard. We always wanted a big backyard for the kids, and that's what we have planned for. We don't want to just stick the dogs in the sideyard, and we don't want to have the dogs tearing up or pooping in the kids play area. We can't think of any relatives that could take care of them either. We were thinking that the sale of our current residence could be a package deal, and the new owners would have to care for the dogs. We know of a kind, older man that is interested in the house AND loves animals. I also thought we might donate them to the fire departments here in Brownsville, but I don't know if they would really care for them. What do we do guys. I need any and all advice I can get. Thanks. BTW, I got the final blueprints for the house. I'll post a link to the look of it later in this thread...and we haven't decided on the brick color yet, but I think it'll end up being in the brown tones...Thanks to all that offered advice, insight, and votes.
Would having the kids share space with the dogs (probably sounded better vice versa.. ) for backyard play be so bad? Seriously, can everyone co-exist? I edited...forgot about the poop...sorry.
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Here's the way the house should look when completed...minus the color. I didn't have the time or patience to paint in the house as we hope it will appear after being built. It comes out to 2000 feet of living area plus the garage area and the porch and patio, for a grand total of 2630 feet. It's going to be a 4 bedroom/2.5 bath home built for a family of four boys and two parents...We are very happy with the final plans... Final Fascia
The home looks nice FT! Congrats! As far as the dogs are concerned, try everything you've mentioned. Fire dept., adoption by a neighbor or friend, anything to get your dog into a good home and master. This may be cruel but thought of keeping only one of the dogs, then you only have two to find a home for? In the end ROXRAN kinda made a good point, couldn't the kids and dogs coexsist? Perhaps a pen to keep them in when the kids want total control of the yard? Let'em loose during the day when you aren;t home and at night when you're asleep, they'll protect your home. Try anything cuz you know what happens to dogs sent to the dog pound.
You could pick up after your dogs. That's what city-dwellers generally are supposed to do when they walk their dogs. You could train your dogs to crap in a certain area to make it easier on you, like the side-yard. If that sort of thing is beneath you, you could hire a dog-walker to walk the dogs twice a day and take care of it himself. The problem seems to me too utterly minor to actually contemplate getting rid of your dogs.
