Comments on: Letting Him Adopt

By: Yu Huo

Yu Huo — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:01:03 +0000

I understand the sentiment, but then you see cases where people have absolutely no sense or any idea of what is involved with taking care of an animal (no, you can’t live in a 1-room apartment with 45 cats; yes, you do have to feed dogs, and yes, it does cost money) and then other cases of such unbelievable cruelty… you’ve worked in animal rescue, so you’ve seen it. The shelter really is preferable in these cases.

By: CMcL

CMcL — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:16:33 +0000

The prevailing philosophy at the shelter where I worked was that it was better for an animal to go home with somebody, pretty much anybody, than to stay cooped up in the shelter. While I can understand that to some extent, I was continually baffled at situations like this. We had a whole process of interviewing adoptees, calling their landlord to make sure they were allowed to have pets and didn't have any breed restrictions on the one they wanted, making them bring their other pets in to meet the one they wanted, and signing a lengthy adoption contract with all sorts of stipulations, none of which were ever enforced if they were broken. We even put "DO NOT ADOPT" tags on certain people in the database, and yet if they showed up and wanted a new animal, they were still allowed to adopt. Sigh. Good on you for taking in a rescue.

By: Yu Huo

Yu Huo — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 17:46:21 +0000

Perhaps if more people were more like you, it would have stopped my newest addition from having been adopted and handed back in THREE TIMES. Luckily for him, he was eventually picked up by breed rescue, and they gave me the third degree before they’d let me have him. For the record, it did not in the slightest make me feel bad.

By: CMcL

CMcL — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:02:45 +0000

Alligators work alone, yo. They don’t care if you abandon them.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 23:09:15 +0000

Right next to each other in the Tag Cloud are the words Abandoned and Aligator.

I’m going to leave it at that, because if i don’t i’m going to make people mad at me.

By: CMcL

CMcL — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:56:32 +0000

Yes, much of the world has become one big “musical chairs” set with plenty of extra chairs so nobody ever has to feel bad about themselves.

By: GreyDuck

GreyDuck — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:30:23 +0000

It’s frustrating, living in a society in which “requiring people to meet basic standards” is some kind of evil. Ugh.