What were they thinking!?!?

I watch the show as well. It comes after the Dog Whisperer and I have to speculate that after protecting the family, the family were probably afraid that some night they would wake up and find that the hoods had poisoned their dog. So they were no doubt saving the dog. You have to think from other angles other then they were very mean people. After all the bad guys probably knew what the dog looked like, and they would have harmed her.

Some of the people have come up with a decent reason, like protecting the dog from hoods who want to hurt you by hurting the dog. I have an overprotective dog. He's my pup (even though he's already a year old). He sleeps with me, and is very protective. That being said, I am in fear of having to get rid of him. He is over-protective. Everything is a threat to me at night according to him. No other dog is allowed to enter the room, he's even growled at my hubs. That's not allowed, but he doesn't want to learn that. He's usually evicted after a growl like that, but he still does it every night. (He is a stubborn little mutt!) My hubs loves me, so he's tolerant of my bad boy. He's even spending more time with the dog, and my dog just adores him. But he still goes off at night. I worry what will happen when he gets old and really psycho. It's gonna break my heart to lose my little psycho, but he keeps trying to start fights with things way bigger than him. (Everything is bigger than him, except cats) Maybe their dog got a lot worse too? I always rush home, to make sure he's alright. He's always trying to push the other dogs around! One of these days... I dread it, I really do.

A)there could have been circumstances were just not aware of, financial, etc., that made it hard for them to keep him/her or B)maybe some people are just thoughtless, selfish, and inconsiderate. (Shrug).

The dog probably attacked the bad guys so the family figure...gee, she could turn on us someday. Now the poor doggy is gone from the family and home that she loves. She is obviously very intelligent so must be feeling very sad and confused right now.

You got me curious so before I answered this I checked Best Friends...is this the dog you were talking about? http://adoptions.bestfriends.org/Default.aspx?SR=True&N=4294967262+4294967274&Ne=27&No=4 It could be that maybe Missy (or whichever dog it was you were looking at) may have been "too" protective and maybe even was aggressive to the family especially if there were children involved

That's really sad. The only thing I can think of is that maybe the family thinks the dog may become dangerous now and bite random people, so they don't want the liability. I can't imagine any other reason they'd get rid of the dog. If it were my dog, it'd be getting some pretty big treats for a while.

After reading your post, that is also the question that pooped out in my mind. what were this people thinking knowing this dog is so usefl it even save them from bad people. Maybe for them to avoid that incident to occur again they have to return the dog, but i think that is unreasonable.If I were them I will adopt many dogs if that is the case. I will treat the dogs as my bodyguard. They are so vague, I don't get it!

Hello I love pet so much and I never get rid of them. I always love dogs the most and they are so smart. I will feel bad if people let them go like that.

I train dogs, see this happening all the time. Man's best friend saves owner from fire, later dog was brought to the humane society.SOME, People just don't care about their animals enough any more to keep them. More and more animals r getting abused . More older dogs r being placed for adoption, not just 1-2 or 3 year old dogs, I am seeing dogs 6 -7 - 8 year old dogs being set out to pasture. This was unheard of , now nothing is sacred, man's best friend no longer...A sad begining to a bad ending... because these poor things will in most cases , be euthanized.. REMEMBER ALWAYS LUV/CARE FOR YOUR DOG/ PET, THEY WILL ALWAYS LUV AND B LOYAL TO U..