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Pastimes : Where the GIT's are going -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PatiBob who wrote (125365)	11/26/2006 2:14:33 PM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 225578

I've had to put down two very good friends and I know it's not easy to think about someone else taking their place. But I do know that I'm a much better person for having a place in my heart and home for one that has no place to go. In the Smithee family, a pet is for life. The past 10 years or so, we've had two rescue dogs - a black lab and a little terrier type rat dog. We had to put the lab down last spring after she developed an osteosarcoma in her right leg. Very difficult to do. At the other end of the spectrum are some friends of ours. In the past two years they have had 4 dogs, and I was shocked to learn they just got another. They tend to have these dogs a month or so, then decide they don't like the personality, whatever, and give them away. What kind of a message does that send to the kids, that it is acceptable to adopt a dog and then get rid of it 30 days later because you decided it has too much energy for you?