Posted on 11/30/2016 5:53:56 AM PST by KeyLargo
Heartless family leaves escaped dog at shelter, adopts new pup
By Chris Perez
November 29, 2016 | 6:09pm
A California family is being hounded on Facebook after they were caught on camera doing their dog dirty — getting her all happy and excited to leave an animal control shelter and then adopting a new four-legged best friend, instead.
Heart-wrenching video posted on Monday by a worker at the Los Angeles County Department of Animal Care and Control center in Downey shows the German Shepherd, Zuzu, frantically wagging her tail and barking for joy after spotting her despicable owners.
The pooch had gotten loose — hopping the family’s backyard fence and then escaping into their neighbor’s yard — and was picked up by Animal control, according to the worker.
Zuzu’s owners arrived at the shelter a short time later, but not to reclaim her like the staff had hoped.
“Doing Dog Intros we got [interrupted] by a distracted and overly excited Zuzu,” Desi Lara wrote in the video description. “With her fast wagging tail seeing her owners Zuzu lite up like a Christmas Tree. She looked like the happiest dog. Yeah, she’s going home. But No. Talking to her owners they told me they were not here to reclaim her, they were getting another dog.”
The family had apparently grown sick and tired of Zuzu because she had been “crying and sad” over the death of her father.
“She wasn’t a happy dog anymore,” Lara recalled them saying. “Their solutions for her unhappiness was just leaving her here! And go get another dog.”
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Scumbags
In today's "Throw away society" I guess this is to be expected.
It’s just a dog. They eat them in China. Scumbags abort their children.
The shelter is on a mission to find her a better more loving home.She’ll end up where she’s loved and the original owners will still be dirtbags.
Zuzu lite up like a Christmas Tree.
I stopped reading right...their ;p
Did the shelter allow the scum to adopt another animal????
They should’ve told them emphatically NO!!!!!!
She wasn’t a happy dog anymore because animals (dogs specifically) are a mirror as to what their owners are like — and in this case, the owners are miserable a**holes, so the dog was/is ‘unhappy’ because of the owners.
I hope each one of these human beings gets Mad Cow Disease.
Grandma’s next!
This is like the “family” that recently abandoned their dog to a shelter after it had saved their lives by warning them of a house fire. They were moving and just didn’t want the hassle of taking their savior with them.
In a number of ways, dogs are better than people. Certain individuals and families should not be permitted to adopt animals such as Zuzu. Scum.
I hope that family has a rotten Christmas.
The dog in question will be adopted in a loving forever home.
My family had a rabbit for a pet, and despite him going blind in one eye, getting old and fat, and all those other health problems that rabbits have, we kept him to the end.
PING this over.
wow! what a-holes ( as I am surrounded by doggie love this morning)
I am a dog lover, I have always had dogs. I hope the dog does get adopted. I am also a Christian and abortion bothers me way more than abandoning a dog...
I don’t see why people are upset.
These are Californians we’re talking about, it’s just their culture. It’s the diversity we must embrace.
Thank you. People are made in the image of God, yet many, like my young coworkers, tear up over dogs and shrug their shoulders over abortion. We love our dog, but he’s a dog-not one of our children.
This family was pretty selfish, but there are other families who do the same thing with their difficult adopted children and no one cares! It happens more than you would think to kids adopted out of foster care. Absolutely heartbreaking.
I’ve just returned from a Thanksgiving trip and will be picking up my monsters this after noon. God, how I love them, even though all they do is, “lie around, threaten my life, and slobber all over me.
Scumbags abort children AND treat animals like shit. They’re not mutually exclusive here.
My daughters started the local Animal Rescue and we see stuff like this all the time. People were evicted from a rental property and left their dog in the house for two weeks with no water or food. The dog ate the sheetrock to survive and had to have surgery to remove the intestinal blockage.
A family adopted a pit bull puppy and the son “accidently” spilled battery acid on it and it died. They came back to the seller and got a second puppy that ended up at the emergency room after “someone” cut off his ears and tail and they couldn’t get the bleeding to stop.
A woman was fighting with her boyfriend and stabbed his dog to death and then stabbed her own dog. He’s in the rescue now and is a great puppy. I find it hard to believe that a puppy that’s been abused like that could ever learn to trust a person again, but he’s a lovable little guy.
Another family had a great Australian Shepherd and didn’t give it heartworm preventative. It was diagnosed with heartworms and they didn’t want to spend the money on it, so they dropped it at the shelter and got a new puppy.
One of my in-laws found out her dog had allergies and didn’t want to have to deal with giving it a pill every day, so she had it put down and got a new puppy.
I have a German Shepherd that was an escape artist. The owner dumped him outside the local shelter and drove away. I’ve had him for over five years now. German Shepherds aren’t made to be locked up all the time. They need mental and physical stimulation and lots of companionship. He has never escaped in the five years I’ve owned him.
I’ve fostered over 90 animals and now have five rescue dogs and four of them have issues caused by abandonment or mistreatment. It helps to understand the trauma they’ve been through and how that impacts their perspective. A dog that destroys your house when it’s left alone may have been abandoned and is afraid you’re not coming back. A dog that bites when it’s cornered may have been mistreated.
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