Taking on any puppy is hard work, and you have to be prepared that its going to be hard work to toilet train them, and get them to stop chewing stuff, but it comes with having a dog and some people are naive to this. I would love a dog but I have a 2yr old and a 7yr old, and I know that a dog would be too much as my kids are still too young (well my 2yr old at leats) to undstand its a living animal. I have a brother in law that in the past 11yrs has had 3 dogs! The 1st he got was a jack russel and got it when his girlfriend was pregneant with theyre 1st child, and because she kept jumping up at her, got rid of her within a few months, then they got a German shepard when his girlfriend was expectin theyre 2nd child (this was within a 14months of gettin rid of theyre last dog), he chose the biggest of the litter, and when he got bigger he wouldnt allow his girlfriend in the house, he would go for you if you touched his ears, and he would pull like hell, and cause he was waitin for a kidney transplant, and couldnt bang himself in the area wher he had his tube, got rid of him within 6mnths of havin him, then just before xmas of 2008 just after his wife had, had her 4th baby he goes and gets a Border Terrier type dog, he then discovered 'Yoville' on Facebook and spent the next year glued to his computer, he kept saying his dog was dumb, but in actual fact he never bothered to train it and because it kept peein everywhere and chewing stuff they got rid of it a year later.
You would of think they learnt the 1st 2 times they cant cope with a dog and I dont think it will be the last, but I swear to god if they get another dog I'm gonna blow up at them, as its people like that, that make me soooo angry!