Posted on 08/23/2013 2:09:56 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Pets that ran away or got picked up. If it was someone’s pet they’ll send them across the street to the humane society. They’re in the same parking lot. I was on the board there.
The veterinarian could use some grammar lessons.
There’s something missing from this story.
Oh, ok. The facility I worked for was one and the same.
I was an operations manager for awhile, it was very sad to see all the animals that came through, abandoned, abuse and some just because they couldn’t be taken care of any longer.
The last category were more likely to be adopted than the others. (And those where the owners that wept when they dropped the animals off, heart retching)
Hey, Ridgeway; I read your email and I have a suggestion for you. If your hands are so sore from working so hard why don’t you just EUTHANIZE YOUR SELF.
I have relatives and acquaintances that I'll give away before my dogs. Come for my dogs or my guns and be prepared to bleed - a lot.
heartbreaking indeed. one of the things I tried to get rolling here, which I’m sure applies nationally, is the fact that almost all apartments and condos have very restrictive rules on pets so our shelters fill up. If they would just draft the bylaws to be based on personal pet responsibility as opposed to blanket weight/size restrictions, we could go a long way resolving the issue.
You’re right, there really are not any no kill shelters. The ones that claim to be actually fudge their numbers by euthanizing before they ‘count’.
“Ticks me off when I am regularly scolded for getting a pure bred dog ... “
I was discussing cats with an animal Nazi (as I call them) once ... the conversation went well until I mentioned that I am “probably” going to get a Maine Coon from a breeder once I get over the loss of my cat (another Maine Coon though not certified ... I love that crazy bastard and miss him to this day).
She said that I’d have blood on my hands should I buy from a breeder and called me a lower form of human for even considering that. I thought it was a joke at first ... the idiot wouldn’t shut up about it.
I should have asked her about abortion. I’m sure *that* would have been OK so long as it wasn’t kitten abortion.
Anyway, I’m very familiar with the scoldings you mentioned ... it makes me frigging sick to see people react like that. I can see being passionate about something, but obsessive and rude isn’t going to win people over.
It's not a free boarding house.
What can anyone expect from someone named Shawntae.
Totally unwilling to accept responsibility for her dogs.
Send her a bill for the drugs used to put the dogs down.
I wouldn’t move to a place where I couldn’t also take my dog. Period.
Animals have unconditional trust in their caretakers, The owners broke that trust when they put their whims above their commitment. Then they want to blame someone else for what they did? It’s like blaming the abortionist afterward when the guilt sets in.
There is a link at number 4 to the e-mail to which the vet responded. It was not an e-mail from the original owners, but rather a person who was invested in area dog rescue, and IMHO was not deserving of such a response by the vet.
Yup.
I feel misery for the dogs but the ‘owners’, not so much.
I’d sleep beneath an overpass if that’s it what it took to keep my dogs.
I’ve had to choose between feeding my dogs and myself, in the distant past.
I discovered that I look better thin.
:)
The vet, however, was a pr*ck.
No call for that attitude.
My daughter left behind two dogs when she moved away from home. We couldn’t handle two, but I refused to place one at a shelter. It took awhile but we found a home with children in the country for her. The owners should have known better.
Some days the ability to handle the idiots and irresponsible animal owners overcomes the sensibilities to not say what one really thinks. The vet did as he was told as the decision to euthanize the animals comes from the directors or dictates of the charter rules. Its easy to pass judgment without looking at the entire situation. The owners were moreso culpable for the killing of the dogs than was the vet.
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