 Re: My family is considering of giving up my border collie
Understand your plight though. I was somewhat in your same situation years ago when i got my dog.. my parents were against it, they keep wanting me to give up the dog. Because of this issue, we had cold wars.... and this created a 'hatred' towards my parents. Of course i insist on keeping my dog as he is innocent, it was hard for the first few weeks but i kept my promise (to my dog) that i will protect him. Of course i have to do my part in cleaning after my dog and not create any nuisance or inconvenience for my family, keep the hse clean so that they do not have any complains.
As time goes by, they somehow accepted my dog.... But not long after, i got another dog (actually it's to accompany the first dog). It was a blessing that i was getting married and moving out to our new home. But problem did not end there.... After moving in for abt a couple of mths, HDB came knocking on my door and asked me to remove my dogs (they are not HDB approved)... a neighbor had made a complain. They complaint of the barking (they bark becos they were unfamiliar with the new home). I was so scare that they will take my dogs away, i locked my dogs with me in the room for the past few days, so that HDB wil not hear them when they comes. I also placed them in the hotel for a few days..... oh yes, we also went to a few of the neighbors hse to apologise of the nuisance that have created. After few weeks, we didnt hear from HDB again and hope neighbors will be more accommodating.
In the meantime, we try to be a good dog-owner by making sure our place is free from urine odor, dogs dont bark.... just do not let neighbors have anything to complain. It has been 3 yrs, but im still quite scare that the HDB guy will come back again....
Sorry for being so long-winded. Just wanna say that when there is a will, there is a way. In order to be accepted, you will have to do a part in making it happen. All the best!
Oh yes, are your dogs sterilized?? Both my male dogs have marking problem, they will mark the whole hse (legs of sofa & dining table, wall....) when we are not at hm. One of them will bit and tear the edge of sofa, destroy the things that he can get hold of....But after sterilizing them, all these stopped, no more marking and no more biting. 
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