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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I would also be concerned about the welfare of the puppy that those slime-balls were given.
Congratulations! You are today's winner of the first "it's just a freakin' dog and it's not worth more than humans, so get over it" post of the day award! Woof!
Well, I have to say this “pet nonsense” in America is out of control, have children instead folks.
What kind of Shelter lets them adopt another dog, knowing what they just did?
The dog will be saved by a rescue on Friday, the first day he is available, per FB posts.
They abort babies in China too, especially female ones. So what’s your point?
Zuzu lite up like a Christmas Tree.
I suddenly remembered the cat in that christmas movie
What is wrong with people making a decision about what kind of animal they wish to have in their home Can you imagine our society if we were forced to give in to an animals wants and whims? Wonder how the human fetus feels during the abortion?
I prefer to call it the “Turd in the punchbowl” award.
CC
These people in the article have kids. Great suggestion on your part that they should have more, given their clear inability to accept responsibility.
The Downey shelter has less than a stellar reputation among rescues.
My comments weren’t addressed to them, but to the loser American pet owners using pets as a replacement for children, sickening ...
Every single time someone posts something about animal cruelty, some jackass has to try and FROCE the discussion into abortion. It’s a sign of mental illness.
Yes, but we pet owners all know that many people look at family pets as just throw-away things.
However, pro-life freepers always feel that it is necessary to accuse pet owners of being more concerned about animals than human beings, which we pet owners know is not true.
Being a pet owner does not preclude being pro-life, of which I am.
Wow. Must be a REALLY slow news day.
Thank you for a dose of sanity.
They like granny’s Social Security check too much to ditch her.
Probably the same as a dog would feels being aborted. The dog feels the same as a child who has been abused and/@or abandoned.
And no, people who mistreat or abandon their dogs will do the same to a child and should not have children.
We are all God’s creatures with souls no matter our physical form.
There is now way I would look at that video——it would spoil my day.
Some PEOPLE should be put in cages-—forever.
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Why did the shelter allow these heartless losers to adopt another of their dogs? That doesn’t seem to make sense.
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