> Article Here <This caught my attention because, well, it infuriated me.
It's a rather long article, but the short version is that a woman brought her dog to the shelter, changed her mind a short time later, (she claims ten minutes), and went back, to hear that the dog has been euthanized.
Sounds bad, doesn't it. You think, oh how horrible the shelter did that.
Until you actually look at the details.
I feel NO pity for this woman, ONLY for the dog, who never had a chance with this asshat.
Let's look at WHY.
"-based on information Nott provided, the dog had severe separation anxiety that caused it to chew into carpet, furniture and drywall."
The dog has very serious issues.
"Nott chose not to pay a $30 fee that would have given her the option to reclaim the dog, and she signed the part of an agreement that said she chose not to retrieve the animal, Janzen said."
Owner is a cheap ass.
"Nott got Lucy as a gift from her daughter about nine months ago. While Nott worked, the dog was home alone at least eight hours a day, and Nott thought the dog had developed separation anxiety. Lucy began digging at carpet and destroying household items."
This dog was never even given a chance.
Seriously. So, this dimwit buys a gift puppy, which is never a good idea to begin with, but then doesn't even begin to think, hey, I work eight hours a day, is that a good environment for a growing LABRADOR puppy?
So of course puppy is left all alone in a house, presumably without being crate trained at all, no walks during the day, no stimulation, and naturally begins to eat the house in bored desperation.
And the owner blames the dog. What happened to personal responsibility?
Do you think animal shelters are falling over themselves to adopt out your destructive young dog? Especially one of a breed that's been so over bred and is just filling up shelters everywhere. Cage room in a shelter is at a premium. There are hundreds of thousands of perfectly well behaved dogs out there looking for homes . . . sadly, the shelter cannot afford to feed and house a dog that is highly unlikely to be adopted.
Does it suck? Absolutely. But the blame here likes squarely with the owner. This puppy was allowed to develop behaviors that made it adoptable, and then dumped at the shelter and put to sleep because the owner couldn't be bothered to fix those issues.
And now she wants to go on the news blathering about how EVIL the shelter is and how they should have done this or this or this. Maybe this stupid bitch should volunteer some time in the shelter and see how things WORK before she goes running her mouth blasting the shelter for her own stupidity.
Drives me mad, it does.
