Should my family surrender our dog
This post is very hard for me to make but I need advice. My mom is permanently disabled and unable to work due to a hemorrhagic stroke that happened three years ago. Before her stroke my parents had separated but my dad still chose to live with her to take care of her. My mom is now at a place where she is able to take care of herself and live alone so my parents want to part ways. This whole time they were living at a house together with my mom’s big coon hound. After my mom’s stroke, she is physically unable to walk her because of her weakness and partial blindness. I don’t live at home but I come by often to help walk her. I got accepted into a masters program far away and will be moving so I won’t be able to help anymore. My mom might have to also move into an apartment on her own which many don’t allow dogs of her size and it’s not like she’d be able to let her out into the backyard, and won’t be able to walk her outside. My dad doesn’t want to take the dog either as he has started seeing another woman who doesn’t want a dog. The dog has also been diagnosed with two mammary tumours recently that need to be surgically removed and the cost is extremely high and difficult to pay off especially since my mom is not able to work. Overall it seems like giving the dog a good quality of life is not possible given our family situation. I am trying to weight out all of the options and am feeling stuck. What do I do?