My mom wants to give up the family dog

post has been HEAVILY edited by the author

My mom (60F) told me 2 days ago she talked to a rescue about surrendering her 10yo Golden Retriever.

ETA: I originally put a lot of context into this, including I’ll admit a lot of venting. That led to a lot of people suggesting I ‘rehome’ my mom. I appreciate the passion, but no.

I created this post actually to seek some advice/thoughts on options. How I might be able to get around my landlord, stories about senior dogs being rehomed and determine whether I needed to step in, etc.

Unfortunately I didn’t really word the part about advice well. Oh well. Lesson learned, don’t Reddit when you’re upset. I am heavily editing this post NOW to curb my impulse to just delete.

Keys Helpful Takeaways from commenters seem to be: - rehoming CAN be a good option, but I should do some research on the rescue org and vet them - if there’s anything I can do to keep him myself (or my siblings) obviously that is priority (and honestly my goal) - a few offered more compassionate perspectives towards my mom

Thank you all who offered advice, links, and words of encouragement.

To those of you who told me I was a shit person for being upset and venting in an anonymous place where my mom will never read it… interesting take.

I’ll put screenshots of the original post in a comment below so everyone can respond to the original. It just took me a ridiculous amount of time to figure out how to edit a post and here we are.