One of my passions is helping take care of animals - specifically Boston Terriers - who are abandoned or recovered from a breeding pit. It just amazes me how absolutely cruel people can be. For example . . .
Today there was a call from a girl who was allegedly moving to an apartment & couldn't keep her dog of 11 years! 11 years!!!!! She was threatening to take it to a kill shelter (in an effort to make those who volunteer feel compelled to jump & figure out what to do. We are above capacity - we have a shelter, we have our own kennel & many, many of us foster while the baby waits for their forever home.)
How could someone who has had a dog since it was a puppy just move to an apartment that doesn't take pet - 11 years later - & decide the apartment was more important that the pet. This loyal animal who depended on her - who welcomed her home every day with loving licks & yips of excitement. This BT who thought that his owner was the best of all - because she loved him.
I cannot write more on this because frankly, it makes me so sad I cannot deal. It makes me want to punish (which is weird for me) the offender - to take this girl down to the kill shelter & lock her in the cage & say, "Is she next?" [Actually - that sounds familiarly like what we do to people, especially in Texas.]
I have nothing for this girl - nothing. I don't know her but I'm trying not to hate her, not to wish bad things on her, not to send her bad vibes & kharma. She is not like those who lost their homes & have nothing (which I STILL do not understand abandoning a pet to starve to death which is happening a lot in foreclosures.)
I have a few names I'd like to call her & a couple of things I'd like to do, but instead I'll share with you -
PLEASE - spay, neuter, don't take a pet that you don't intend to keep to the very end. (You don't want to be thrown out when you get old, do you?) Adopt, don't buy. And, take care of your pets - this is heartworm country here in Texas. If you don't want to spend money on them - DON'T GET ONE.
Kripes, I'm pissed.
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
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SO SAD YET SO ACCURATE.
My next door neighbor did that with her dog and frankly I'd grown very attached to the animal (appropriately named "Outcast") over the years just from petting it and giving it the occasional treat over the fence. I've already got three dogs (all adoptees) but I'd have taken that one in a heartbeat if I'd known what she intended to do. I haven't spoken to the neighbor since and may never speak to her again. Jerk.
ReplyDelete@Gritsforbreakfast - good for you! What a jerk to do something like that. And, good for you for adopting. My last foster apparently had such a bad life - he was very difficult to get close to. He had all kinds of fears, and he reacted meanly rather than run away (which makes it more difficult to place him.) If in one week every person wanting a pet would adopt rather than buy, I'll bet we'd make a huge dent in the population. (And if everyone would spay or neuter - there'd be many less unwanted strays that run rural neighborhoods.)
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