• MoreThanCorrect@lemmy.world
    82·
    6 months ago

    Brother in law adopted a young dog a week ago.

    Very nice pitbull that got along well with people and the other dogs at the gathering, including ours. It had been adopted and given up two times in its life already for no reason of its own (emergency in adopted family life then an unexpected passing of the next adopter). It emotionally bonded so quickly to my brother in law.

    Issue is, my brother in law is a mess himself. Young with a lot of personal issues, barely home, and not able to commit to taking care the pup. He impulse adopted the dog and really realized that this past week.

    He decided this morning to give it back to the shelter. We, along with other family members offered to take the dog instead of giving it up. He’s a great dog and only needs a bit of training that is expected with any young pup. Brother in law, stubborn as he is, outright refuses any option other than giving it back to the shelter. No care for the realistic hard chance it will have getting adopted again after being given up for a third time. The pup has a real chance for a good life but no, shelter it must go.

    The oven also died so no buns.

    Edit: We are planning on getting in contact with the shelter he adopted from to see what our options are if he is returned there. We expect to have to fully adopt with everything that entails. We’ll be out some money but the pup will be in an active home instead of a 8x4 cell.

    Hopefully there is some thinking done tonight and the pup will be rehomed without the shelter step.

    • meco03211@lemmy.world
      37·
      6 months ago

      Brother in law, stubborn as he is, outright refuses any option other than giving it back to the shelter.

      It’s hard to admit you’ve made such a big mistake. The magnitude of the solution directly relates to the magnitude of the mistake. If you got a jacket that you wind up not liking, no one would be put out if you returned it to the store. He’s only stubborn because he’s trying to convince himself he didn’t fuck up that bad.

    • Orbituary@lemmy.world
      12·
      6 months ago

      People who treat animals like they’re objects belong in a shelter. They should not be allowed to care for pets.

    • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br
      7·
      6 months ago

      I think is safer for everyone involved that he returns the animal to the shelter and then adopt it from there. It’s better legally for everyone.

  • Gingerlegs@lemmy.world
    70·
    6 months ago

    My sister claimed Bill Gates is making Tyson chicken use crushed up crickets in their breading on their chicken nuggets.

    • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
      18·
      6 months ago

      Probably my last Thanksgiving with biological family.

      Stopped spending all holidays with my bio family three years ago.

      Do it.

      It’s wonderful.

      • Wumbologist@lemmy.world
        8·
        6 months ago

        Anyone else grow up hearing about that one crazy, estranged aunt/uncle who cut ties with the family years prior, only to eventually understand, then become them?

        • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
          2·
          6 months ago

          And you make contact and they turn out to be entirely reasonable and someone you’d prefer to spend time with over any of the main family?

          Personally, no, but I’ve seen it a lot browsing the drama subs on that old site.

      • gum_dragon@lemm.ee
        6·
        6 months ago

        Growing up my dad always complained about his in-laws and would say “be careful, when you marry someone you marry their family!”

        And he’s right! I married into a wonderful family that I spend the holidays with.

    • wheeldawg@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      6 months ago

      One never heard anyone on either side say Hamas isn’t evil or not not enough Israeli civilians are dying.

      That’s not a left wing thing, your family is properly fucked.

  • BallShapedMan@lemmy.world
    48·
    6 months ago

    My kid argued with me about what one sixteenth of a pie looked like when he was serving me. He tried to give me one eighth and I was already full!

  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
    42·
    6 months ago

    Had mine last month (Canada), over at a conservative’s uncle’s place but things turned unexpectedly…

    I was going in expecting a left vs. right kind of political shouting match between my cousins and I against my conservative relatives.

    What ended up happening was everyone was unified in a shouting match against my dad… who was the only one convinced that the future generations won’t be going to shit if we stay the status quo.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
      10·
      6 months ago

      won’t be going to shit if we stay the status quo.

      While proven improvements are good, simply changing things because it sucks right now is not a great idea.

      There is no problem so bad that it cannot be made worse, and the cons are banking on you not knowing that.

      • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
        5·
        6 months ago

        Well here’s the thing. I find these relatives and I come to a similar conclusion, albeit through different paths. My ideas are that the wealthy elite use labour exploitation and obfuscating it through “technology”, to keep their wealth and keep us poor, hungry and easily controlled. My conservative family claims that through some strange brew of government regulations, restrictions to freedom, immigrants, woke education, and that kind of stuff that the wealthy elite use to control us. So (my relatives at least) are actually somewhat reasonable and attentive to my rants and I similarly try to show how I understand them to a point when they talk about trade and exploitation. I have to still explain away their misconceptions, like having to say that 400ppm+ of Carbon is a problem for our planet even if air is 20% oxygen.

  • IHadTwoCows@lemm.ee
    32·
    6 months ago

    Well ours didnt last long, but it was about whether or not gummy bears expand in salt water.

    Thankfully the science curriculum of British Columbian universities have settled this already.

  • Godric@lemmy.world
    29·
    6 months ago

    Post-dinner, boys went downstairs and argued about football bets and whether or not the losers of a card game had to take shots.

    Girls upstairs, I’m told and overheard, had a passionate discussion with Grandma about gay people.

  • FullOfBallooons@leminal.spaceEnglish
    22·
    6 months ago

    Whether or not that song “Lil Boo Thang” is sampling “Best of My Love” by The Emotions.

    It is, and I think my mom even realized she was in the wrong, but she kept playing dumb. Mostly because she knew how much it was driving my sister and I batty.

    Thankfully it wasn’t really an argument, just a goofy conversation.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
      3·
      6 months ago

      Mostly because she knew how much it was driving my sister and I batty.

      We could be related, you and me. My family lives to needle one another when it’s not serious.

  • DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone
    16·
    6 months ago

    Whether Petbarn is, or should be, open on Xmas day. My stepson is yelling and stamping his feet, absolutely certain that they are, and if not, they should be, on the off chance that someone needs to buy pet stuff.

  • Ookami38@sh.itjust.works
    13·
    6 months ago

    Almost got to drop the “well, pass the arsenic, that’s natural” line, but the conversation got derailed before it reached that.