OK so it's Friday and anyone who owns a Nook can get a free book for their Nook library. They offer a different genre each week so often I don't download the free book. Today was one of those days. Instead I purchased the deal of the day. It was $4.99. It is about a dog who escaped being put down by gas in a shelter. It's written by the woman who adopted him. I'm looking forward to reading it even if it has a normal sad ending due to the short length of dogs lives. I'm also glad that a portion of my purchase is going to PetFinder.org. A great organization that maintains a website where all pet shelters can advertise pets up for adoption. I've known about it for years and have cruised the pages of dogs available in Illinois since I found it in 2005. I haven't been on it in a long time and don't plan on getting another dog, so I'll just satisfy myself reading about dogs and loving on the dogs of my friends.
The thing that gripes me is irresponsible pet owners who don't have their cats and dogs spayed or neutered. There are too many domesticated animals who turn feral because they have to in order to survive. How to the 2 connect? Pet owners who don't spay or neuter end up finding their female pets with litters. Pet owners who live in the country and don't want the litters do horrible things to the puppies or kittens to get rid of them because it now costs to get a shelter to take them off your hands. City owners who find themselves in this position end up taking the 8 week old puppies and kittens out in the country and dump them off at a farm hoping the farmer will take care of them. It's a necessary evil in order to maintain the shelter and feed the animals until they're adopted.
Christmas alone is one of the worst holidays for puppies and kittens. Parents get their little darlings a puppy or a kitten expecting the child to be responsible for feeding etc and when the child does not live up to the parents expectations the puppy or kitten is taken to the shelter. OR, the puppy or kitten grows up and before they're 1 year old they go to the shelter because they're no longer cute! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? How irresponsible IS that?
Someone said that a society shoes how advanced it is in the way it treats it's animals. I strongly believe that.
Today I'm thankful for:
1. Charities that help low income RESPONSIBLE families get their pets spayed or neutered.
2. PetFinder.org and the work they're doing
3. All the no kill animal shelters who are saving the most loving beings on a daily basis
4. Cindy, Taffy, Peppers, The Captain, Missy, Ginger, Laddie, Buster, Gabbi, UD
5. Samantha, Idaho, Sachscachewan, Socrates, Coonrad, Jackson, Peaches
Later
Jan
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