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Why do people think pets are disposable?
I was bored today and looking in the Pets section on Craigslist for cat stuff (scratching tree type thing) and was just shocked/sad at how many "rehoming" ads there are. This one in particular made me really sad/mad: http://maine.craigslist.org/pet/2838464655.html
It's so flippant and thoughtless. "I don't like the cold so I'm rehoming my dog." WTF? No!!
Re: Why do people think pets are disposable?
Ugh. I had to stop looking at Craigslist for that very reason.
A few people kept flagging me because I kept posting that it is ILLEGAL and medically irresponsible to sell, give away, etc. any puppy or kitten before it is 8 weeks old. And yet-- I was the one who was flagged, not the people selling puppies and kittens at 6 weeks. WTH?!?
Craigslist pets makes me hate people...
On the one hand, I HATE that kind of thing and generally avoid it altogether because then I'm all, MUST ADOPT ALL TEH PETS and Josh would divorce me. AND, I think it's particularly skanky to charge a fee to unload your unwanted dog.
BUT, if Jasper is going to spend all day every day without anyone to play with or to take him for walks, then hopefully some kind soul will take him in. So, I agree, terrible, but if they're going to give him a crappy life (That is, if you're such a douche that you adopt a pet and then decide you're too lazy to care for it and aren't willing to change.), then maybe it's better that they find him a new home. Hopefully a nice one. Obviously it would be better if they just grew up and accepted the responsibility they'd taken on. But alas, people are tools.
The thought of it seriously makes me sick. You don't give away your kids because they are a lot of work, you shouldn't do it to pets either. I had a cousin who got rid of a dog for whatever reason and not too long after had a toy designer breed flown in from the midwest. It took everything in me to not say anything about how irresponsible her choices were.
I have the shelter that we adopted Ali from on Facebook, I had to stop looking at all of their posts because I would have 10 more dogs by now!
It is so sad. I am so happy there are others on here that feel the same. I cried the other day because someone from high school decided that he needed to give away his 6 year old golden because he is having a second child. I know it's got to be tough, but they should have thought of that before they decided to get their dog in the first place.
I do actually disagree about the rehoming fee...a rehoming fee at least attempts to keep the creeps that take free dogs to use as bait dogs, sell to sketchy testing facilities, torture etc.
I guess that's a good point. I don't think that's what this person's trying to do - I think they're just trying to recoup some of their cost - but if it has an unintended positive effect, so much the better!
Oh I am sure people do it just to get money. But most animal groups will say that if someone must give away a pet, they should never give it as "free for the taking". The blog post below explains it better.
http://luckydogrescueblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/free-to-bad-home.html