If there was no option to keep the dog, and there was no option to give it to a good home, you could at least have considered a quiet euthenasia. It’s a better option than leaving a dog in the wilderness; that a starving dog, chasing some rodent for a meal would run in front of a car. Body broken, dragging itself off to die in the woods cold and alone. How do people like this sleep at night?
Other things that they may have told their children;
- There is a Santa Claus, an Easter Bunny, and a Tooth Fairie
- We’re good people
- We just want you to be happy
- We’ll be there for you no matter what
- Jesus died for your sins
- We’re open minded
- We love you
- We’re not evil, amoral people who should not be left to die in the woods when we become senile and incontinent
Leave them in the woods.
I doubt it was because they had compassion and thus did not want the dog to die. That is the cover story for the truth of “we are cheap”.
Ever stop to consider if they couldn’t afford to keep the dog, they may not have been able to afford to have it put down either?
“Ever stop to consider if they couldn’t afford to keep the dog, they may not have been able to afford to have it put down either?”
Well, when you put it THAT way…Letting it go on the side of a country road to starve, get hit by a car, freeze to death, or be ripped apart by a wild animal, seems like a perfectly acceptable alternative…
People make me sick.
They could have put an ad in the newspaper or fliers up around town “Free Dog”, and most shelters will take unwanted pets with no questions asked, HELL even some vet offices will take them. A family member? Friend?
Maybe the dog was ill, or old and not simply unwanted, but that is no excuse to abandon your animal on the side of the road. I would be willing to bet that if those cheap people had walked into a veternarians office and said “heres the story, we cant afford to put it down” there would have been some kind of help available.