It's Not Their Fault

Have you ever noticed how everyone loves puppies but as soon as they grow into dogs, some of those people don’t like them anymore? Well I think that is total bull. If you decide to get the puppy, then you shouldn’t understand that one day the thing is going to grow up and become an adult dog and eat a lot more and get into things they shouldn’t. They are animals, they don’t know any better unless we teach them, which is something that should be taught to them as puppies. For all those people that go out and buy puppies because they think they are cute then as soon as the dog starts to grow up and isn’t as cute anymore, so they take them to the shelter…WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU? Those animals didn’t ask for you to take them in, if you feel like you may not be able to handle the dog once it matures, don’t get it, it is that simple. So now I have to get e-mails from the local animal shelter saying that if someone doesn’t adopt these dogs, they are going to be put down because there isn’t enough room for them. You know whose hands the blood is on when those animals get put down? The people that took them to the shelter.

Now I’m not talking about those people that find a stray animal and take them to the shelter so they can at least be fed. No those people do a good thing because they may not be able to adopt the dogs themselves so they give the owners a chance to find the dog. I am talking about the ones that go out here and look for an animal to give a home then turn around and decide that wasn’t a good decision and basically throw them to the county to take care of. I don’t understand how those people sleep at ngiht knowing that the animal they gave up may have to be euthanized because they may never find another home. Those dogs aren’t allowed to live in the shelter forever. Usually if they aren’t adopted by a new family within three months, they are put down because the county doesn’t want to waste any more food or time on them. And I can almost understand where the county is coming from on that point, because the shelter is a business, but if the dogs hadn’t have been given up on in the first place, they wouldn’t be there.

When I get the money and the space, I plan on going down there and adopting dogs and even if I can’t keep them all, I am going to find them a real home somewhere they can run and don’t have to be all cooped up. And the same goes for cats, even though I am not the biggest cat fan, they are in the same situation as the dogs. I hope that reading this will make someone go down to the shelter today and pick out a dog or puppy and give it a good home. They don’t deserve to have to live there and count the days until they get adopted or the county decides they need to get rid of a few. It’s unfair…so please please please, help them!