Mystified by the mentality that causes people to abandon pets
Posted on March 3, 2008 - Filed Under Pet Care, Pet News
I've always been a very understanding person, and a very gullible person, I suppose. That combination generally causes me to try very hard to give people the benefit of the doubt when it comes to their bad behavior. Case in point: Many years ago I guy who I found out later was a con man who had served time in prison for various cons swindled me out of the cash I had to rely on for my first semester in college. To this day, I find myself thinking if I were to run onto the guy on the street, my first thought would be something like: "Hey, there's Dick. Nah, he didn't REALLY swindle me out of that money did he?" Yet I know he did.
When I read stories like this one about the increase of abandoned pets related to real estate foreclosures, I have the same sort of thoughts: "Hey, that can't be true, can it? People couldn't just leave their pets in an empty house and walk away from them, can they?"
Yes, there seem to be a lot of people out there who have no qualms about walking away from the family dog(s) or cat(s) and leaving them to fend for themselves. I suppose part of the problem is that many shelters now require a fee before they'll take a pet. I can certainly understand why that's being done. We've got such a flood of cats and dogs in every town, city, and state of this country that there simply is no way to do things the old way -- so many shelters have been forced to turn to a small fee.
I don't have the answer to all this. It's a serious issue and a seriously sad issue. No dog or cat deserves to be abandoned. Perhaps you can find ways of getting involved to save a pet where you live.
Yet they do. And according to that story (I actually posted on this horrible problem a couple of weeks ago), it's on the increase as foreclosures rise.
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