Should I give up my dog or keep her? PLEASE HELP

Ashley

A little about me and my dog:

So this is my puppy Luna who is 9 months old. My name is Ashley and I'm a 20 year old girl who moved from Phoenix, AZ to Houston, TX early May 2017 to attend college. I all by myself from my childhood home into a one bedroom, two story townhouse 1,200 miles away from my home state.

2 weeks into me moving states, I was waiting for school to start and had no friends or family to hangout with or socialize with. I felt lonely and insecure with my surroundings.

I found myself on Craigslist in the puppy section where I saw Luna, a two month old puppy priced for $60 and a promise to a good forever home. When I picked her up, her owners had her ready to go and pretty much tossed her over the fence with a quick exchange of the money.

Me and Luna went everywhere together, until school started. I go to school Monday- Friday 2pm-8pm with a 5 minute drive. I get a 30 minute lunch break at 6 so I go back home to let her out and play for about 10 minutes or so.

At first I left her out free to roam in the apartment, but I came back home to a couple blinds torn off, the crown molding around the door chewed on, and a shoe torn up. I didn't have a kennel to put her in so I tied her up to a dresser with a leash, which I felt so terrible for. She chewed through the leash by the time I got home and then ate through all the electrical wires to my fish tank, along with the contents to the dresser she was tied to.

I then got her a kennel then next day, which is big enough for a Great Dane to stand up in and move around. At first I couldn't put puppy pads, blankets, towels, food, water, because she would just destroy anything I left her with. And yes I put busy treats and toys in with her. But she just can't seem to be calm when I leave the house. It was about a month later she realized I won't give her anything in her kennel until she learned to stop tearing stuff up.

I then fell in love, in a short amount of time, to a handsome Texan man that I met at school. With love filling the air, he moved in with me and Luna. Every weekend we make a 40 minute drive up to his parents house. We bring Luna because they have an un fenced yard in the middle of the woods, and Luna gets to run around freely and chase deer and catch squirrels.

One day me and my boyfriend left the house for school (we have the same schedule) and came home finding Luna out of her cage with all the blinds completely torn down and destroyed. Somehow she pried her way out of the metal bars. We told her no and she understood she did something wrong. We didn't have any issues for about 2 weeks when we came home again and found her out of her cage and the blinds completely destroyed again.

This happens one more time which was yesterday when we came home to find at least $900 in damage from the dog. And a deposit fee we definitely won't be getting back. The tv knocked on the ground, all the blinds, the window pain destroyed, cable wires destroyed, wifi cords destroyed, glass encased candles, glass vases, and fine China shattered on the floor.

Me and my boyfriend had gotten into a fight because he wanted me to choose between him or her. I chose her. And he spent the night at his parents that night.

The next day we made up and he said "Luna is an outside dog, it kills her everyday when we leave her alone in the kennel for 6 hours a day Monday- Friday. I talked to my parents and they don't have a problem taking her until we find a house with a yard in May"

This is something that made me feel selfish and sad. I love that dog like a daughter, seeing her run around and having fun gives me joy and happiness. But to not be able to take her to these football fields we maintain every morning on the week days, to not have her sleeping at my feet, to not come home and spend my first 20 minutes home worshiping her and giving her lovings, to not feed her every day, to not do all that with my dog, would kill me to only see her on weekends. But it would only last for 4 months, until we get a house with a yard.

Please help me with this decision wether to give her to my boyfriends parents, or to keep her with us in my townhouse until we get a home with a yard, I'm desperately needing advice/ guidance from someone.

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