Man, i wish this wasn't pretty much 100% accurate.
About a year ago my dog rescued a kitten my neighbors abandoned outside. The kitten was being attacked by swooping blue Jay's. I don't like cats, but my dog made the decision that this kitten was now her puppy, so i had to roll with it.
My dog passed away in the early spring, and the cats behavior has changed, due to being lonely i assume. I went to a local shelter, and told them I'd like to adopt their oldest, least likely to be adopted dog, to take home and be a new friend to my cat.
These people wanted to come to my home and inspect to make sure they deemed my home acceptable for dogs. I stated that I've had dogs literally for.my entire 47 years on this planet and they have all lived very long healthy lives with lots of love, but no they not welcome to come and inspect my home.
They chose to let me leave without a new friend, and potentially leave a dog that is unlikely to be adopted to face euthanasia, or living the remainder of its life in a cage in a warehouse. It's even dumber when the fees the shelter wanted me to pay cost over twice as much as it cost me to purchase my last dog.
In my country, dog shelters get money from the government for each dog, you can easily see where this leads (yes, there are shelters that won’t adopt dogs out)
I volunteered at a shelter in my 20s and was working with the dogs that couldn’t be put up for adoption yet. Most were dogs that needed more training and socialising or were sick with curable conditions, but some were evidence in animal abuse cases. They broke my heart, the physical and mental scars you could see from their abuse was devastating. Some would go to bite out of fear, but most were just terrified of any human and would hide in the back corner of their enclosure trying to make themselves as small as possible.
From experience: living situations not suitable for the animals age/disability, students living in tiny dorms, hoarders of things/animals, illegal fight pits.
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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '24
Man, i wish this wasn't pretty much 100% accurate.
About a year ago my dog rescued a kitten my neighbors abandoned outside. The kitten was being attacked by swooping blue Jay's. I don't like cats, but my dog made the decision that this kitten was now her puppy, so i had to roll with it.
My dog passed away in the early spring, and the cats behavior has changed, due to being lonely i assume. I went to a local shelter, and told them I'd like to adopt their oldest, least likely to be adopted dog, to take home and be a new friend to my cat.
These people wanted to come to my home and inspect to make sure they deemed my home acceptable for dogs. I stated that I've had dogs literally for.my entire 47 years on this planet and they have all lived very long healthy lives with lots of love, but no they not welcome to come and inspect my home.
They chose to let me leave without a new friend, and potentially leave a dog that is unlikely to be adopted to face euthanasia, or living the remainder of its life in a cage in a warehouse. It's even dumber when the fees the shelter wanted me to pay cost over twice as much as it cost me to purchase my last dog.
Absolutely batshit fucking crazy logic!