Despite our repeated attempts at training him (including working with a dog trainer), Turk progressed to biting one of the kids. Qatar ended up with two stitches in his lip, and per Minnesota law Turk was reported to the police. We called the Humane Society and they took him back to be placed with a family without small children. It has been hard having one of our children scarred, and to lose a dog which had become part of the family. While it was an easy and immediate choice to get rid of Turk (even if we had to put him down), it still has an emotional toll on all of us; especially Lisa, Me, and our oldest boys. It hasn’t helped to receive a lot of thoughtless comments from friends and relatives that have totally discounted those feelings. I wish people would think a little more prior to opening their mouths.
While at the emergency room with Qatar I offered him something to read from the stack. His choices were a kid’s book called Puppies, or Reader’s Digest with the cover story about Fatal Hospital Mistakes. He declined both. Then the Doctor came in and scrubbed his hands, and then proceeded to shake mine. Overall the scarring looks like it will be minimal, and Qatar is trying to milk his injury for all it’s worth. Like saying he can’t clean the room because his lip hurts.
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