(June 23, 2015 at 3:39 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote:(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)
People who abandon animals piss me off.
I have a very affectionate black and white girl at home who was abandoned by her owners after they moved into a house a few houses away from the place I used to live. I first noticed her outside during a winter storm, sheltering by my neighbour's front door (the cat absolutely loved that neighbour's little girl and would sit outside their house for hours, in all weather, waiting for her).
The cat wasn't being fed so I started feeding her.
When my neighbour, the one with the little girl, confronted the owners about their abandonment of their cat the response was, "When we moved in we were told we weren't allowed cats!"
"So what, you move in anyway and just throw your cat outside, not even bothering to feed her?"
Apparently they didn't give a response to that question, but just walked away.
Long story short, Honey, my name for her, eventually adopted me as her new human, and her "owners" moved away without even bothering to inquire about her. She's in a much better home where she has companionship and sleeps wherever she wants (and in some truly weird places).
Bastards who abandon animals should be driven into the desert, with no supplies, and left to fend for themselves. That's the equivalent of what they do when they abandon pets.
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"
