(June 23, 2015 at 3:23 pm)robvalue Wrote: People are too spineless to turn up at a rescue centre and say, "We don't want this animal anymore" so they take the cowards way out and dump it. Absolute heartless bastards.
I just don't get why people take on pets they can't handle. I hate when I hear, "well, we're having a baby, so we can't keep our cat/ dog/ goldfish," or, "we're moving and fluffy's not welcome in our new place." My roommate spent the better part of a year doing research into what types of breeds she was interested in, and what rescues to find those breeds. She finally found her "perfect" puppy, but some lady got to her first. My roommate was crushed. Then, a few days later, she got a phone call from the rescue saying that the lady who adopted the puppy didn't want her anymore because she couldn't run six miles. Six miles??? A five-month-old puppy whose joints and bones are still developing? We got the puppy, so everything worked out, but are you effing kidding me? Pets should be considered members of your family; at the very least, they are living beings with feelings and personalities. If you can't handle a baby, do you just take it to a shelter, risking its demise? Do you just dump it on the side of the road in hopes someone will pick it up? Do you make it run six miles? It makes me SO angry.
(of course, I'm not talking about *you*, Rob
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Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.
