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.

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

Mom bullshitting about vaccines. In a house where the owners are both scientists.

None.

I spend Thanksgiving at home, alone, with my dogs. It is the absolute best.

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!

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.

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.

Turkey. Fried or Baked. Baked won, as is right.

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.

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.

Relevant XKCD, just yesterday actually.

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.

Whether we should cook the turkey medium or medium rare. Medium rare won, thank God. /S

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

I did not have a dinner this year. It was to involve Niagara Falls, but then the car explosion occurred yesterday and the fear of terror deterred any activity today except the flurries that surround me.

We don't do thanksgiving over here in the Netherlands, but we DID just elect a bunch of super conservative xenofobes as the largest party, so I'll give you one guess.

my conservative relativemanaged to get through the entire thing with the only argument being her insisting that I have more pie. I am extremely thankful this thanksgiving.

There wasnt one. I just had thanksgiving with my mother and we agree on the impprtant things. The only issue is that a lot of students wanted me to tutor them RIGHT NOW. Nope. Not today. You can go find someone else to help you today.

Child 1 said their friend did a thing. Child 2 then started they did that too, but better. Said friend was not present, but somehow child 2 was still trying to compete with them. Smh

Despite the quality of the guests, there wasn't one.

Bit of a late reply: My sister got upset with me because I don't watch the news so I can't be angry and scared with her, while she does and also doom-scrolls, which I keep telling her to stop doing because it's bad for her health to be so stressed out, and she has enough to be stressed about with how badly behaved my nephews are.

Father in law says Gaza should be turned to glass.