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ARGH!!! How can people... (happy ending!)

post #1 of 11
9/29/11 at 10:03am
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I just came back from the vet's office, as my dogs had their grooming appt. When I was paying, I noticed, and began admiring a BEAUTIFUL tri-color Aussie Shepherd boy who was standing behind the counter. The receptionist said, "Isn't he beautiful? That lady (pointing) just adopted him from the animal shelter a few minutes ago!"

The office girls stopped gushing over him and took him out to his new mom, a lady in her 60's. I went over to him and knelt down and he immediately came to me, put his head against my chest, and "cuddled in." Then he offered me his paw! MELT! I asked him to "shake hands" and he did it!

The office girls began talking about him again, and then I found out that his previous owners here had just MOVED AWAY AND LEFT HIM!!!!! I got so angry, and blurted out, "Well, we need to find out where they moved and send them a big box of POO!" Everyone agreed.

Thank goodness he was rescued from his abandoned home, as we are still having hot temps and drought! And thank goodness he seems to have a good forever home. "Rex" is scheduled for his neuter on Tuesday, and will then be all set to live out his days as an inside/outside dog!

How can people just leave an animal?
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post #2 of 11
9/29/11 at 10:17am
"How can people just leave an animal?"

Because they have no hearts.
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post #3 of 11
9/29/11 at 10:19am
One of my fosters was an incredibly sweet little dachshund that was left abandoned in a house when it was foreclosed on in the states. She was left in a tiny metal crate with a note on it for the new owners that said - "You got the house, you get the dog". I don't know how long she was left in the house for.

When she came to me she was partially paralyzed because, we assumed, she had been left in the crate all the time and barely taken out. The muscles in her back legs were atrophied and it took a long time before she was "walking". She mostly would drag her back legs around. She had no control of her bladder or her bowels, it was horrible. We did massage therapy, water exercises in our bathtub (thank god she was small enough for it!), and took her to the chiropractor every week. When she was adopted she was walking mostly properly, had most of her bladder control back and most of her bowel control back. Her new family absolutely loves her! I hear she has improved a lot over the last three years, she still goes to the chiropractor once a month but is holding her adjustments and has much more muscle than she did when she left.

I really don't understand how people can just move and leave an animal behind, locked in a house or a crate
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post #4 of 11
9/29/11 at 12:03pm
Its so sad that people can be so heartless. I feel guilty if I have to leave the dogs on there own whilst im nipping to the shops for 30 minutes.. My friends dog she adopted was left in a adandoned dirty student house , thank goodness the house had rubbish left in because thats what the dog ate that kept him some what alive , vet reckoned another 24 hours the poor dehydrated dog would of died , was skin and bones , after 2 months with my friend had the healthiest weight and coat ever , neautured chipped and vaccenated now a perfect pooch x
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post #5 of 11
9/29/11 at 12:53pm
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Originally Posted by LaRussa View Post
"How can people just leave an animal?"

Because they have no hearts.
That is why the powers that be made people like you with extra big hearts to make up for the heartless.
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post #6 of 11
9/29/11 at 2:04pm
It breaks my heart when I read stories about people abandoning their animals or getting rid "due to new baby/new circumstances" how does the poor animal feel?I am so glad that this is a happy ending and the doggie can learn to love again.x
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post #7 of 11
9/29/11 at 3:02pm
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Originally Posted by Ruthyb View Post
It breaks my heart when I read stories about people abandoning their animals or getting rid "due to new baby/new circumstances" how does the poor animal feel?I am so glad that this is a happy ending and the doggie can learn to love again.x
Exactly my thoughts.
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post #8 of 11
9/29/11 at 3:10pm
My neighbors are looking to rehome his sister's dog because they couldn't take it when they moved. But they didn't just abandon it. And he doesn't have the heart to take it to the SPCA. Poor lil thing.
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post #9 of 11
9/29/11 at 4:31pm
I don't know how people can just leave their pets behind without even a second thought.

I'm glad he got adopted, and is going to a good home
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post #10 of 11
9/29/11 at 6:33pm
Unbelievable to me!!! Something must have gone really wrong in those people's lives to abandon a dog like that
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post #11 of 11
9/30/11 at 3:24am
UGHHH some people!!!!!!!!! Im glad that story has a happy ending.

Sometimes I have zero faith in humanity as a whole. The things I see every spring and summer disgust me. Im so sick of burying other peoples cats that they just drop off on the farm because we couldnt catch them. Its so depressing and heartbreaking and it happens year after year.
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