Saturday, July 28, 2012

booju_newju: FDF- Rehoming Pets

I will preface this to say that I have volunteered at pounds and been active in other animal rescue for years.

If you cannot provide time for your pet (especially if it is young and there is a high likelihood that someone else would adopt it), if you cannot care for your pet, then you need to try to rehome it. I don't mean that if you work 40 hrs and come home too tired to do much more than snuggle with your active dog, then get rid of it - that is not the best situation, but that dog is probably happy and nothing criminal is happening.

Also, sometimes human and animal personalities clash. The human needs to take responsibility for this and work on it, but sometimes nothing can be done. When I was a child my parents had a dog that bit. He came from champion lineage, he was exercised, he had been neutered and taken to the vet and to training, and he was sweet to us, but he was good at getting out and when he did, he bit. They returned him to the breeder after 6 years or working on it. As a 10 year old, I condemned them. As an adult, I realize that the help he needed they could not have given (or anticipated). Along the same lines, I had a cat once that was mean and nasty AND peed everywhere- I got him as a kitten and there was really no reason for him to be like that. for years we tried to make it work, and I even placed him in a nice home once, but after a week the lady returned him to me because of those reasons. I had to surrender him (partially because I was a minor living with my parents and they were done with him, and partially because I could not do anything for him and we all knew it). Do I think that was the best thing to do? Probably. He was 3 years old, very handsome, neutered. He probably found a quick home. When I was at the pound, altered cats moved out of there quickly.

I know that there are lots of animals in pounds. I have seen this first hand. And I have seen people give up animals for the stupidest, cruelest reasons. But it makes me wonder what kind of owners they were in the first place, and glad that at least the animals there had a chance. Also, a lot of shelters aren't no kill, but still rarely kill. At the shelter I was at, we had cats for years. We had one dog that kept nipping (and being returned) and we kept working with him for months. Lots of places rarely if ever kill.

Source: http://booju-newju.livejournal.com/2712615.html

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