I do, as bad as the subject is, want to comment on Paige's request to not
slamming someone who picks a pet and then decides they don't want it She is
very very right about doing the right thing.
We put a lot of stock into committment to animals. The thing is a person
can be committed to loving their animals and taking care of them. But not
every animal works out. Pets are like people, they can have personality
clashes with their own kind as well as the human, even with that human
being an animal lover. You can bring in an animal you think is going to
work into your home, find it is not working out, and decide to find another
home. That is not a sign you are cruel. You have a life in your hands,
you are not happy with it, it is not happy with you. Keeping it just cause
you bought it IS cruel. A mistake is not a mistake til you make it one.
As a comparison, it's kinda like a divorce - you marry, you say you will
stay married, you live together a little and find its a meiserable
relationship. You have a life expectancy of 82.6 years, do you live that
life of meisery or cut the line where both sides can go find the one to
live the rest of their life with. No one thinks divorce is good. They
can understand it yet the same people can't understand why you give up an
animal once you took it in.
Well, life is short. My most cherished pets came from homes they hadn't
work out in before. I am so thankful they came to live and share my life.
None of that would have come to be if their previous owner hadn't had the
sense to know to make a break. I myself have had to let a couple of pets
go over the years because they were totally unhappy here - too nervous to
mix with the others, did destrutive things to demonstrate they were
unhappy, etc etc. I followed where they went to see how it worked out
later and can honestly say EVERYONE benefited.
So. There are always two sides to every story. I don't know what the side
is to those who are cruel, thoughtless and mean, and I don't want to know.
But I'll be darned if I am going to lump all people into that category when
they have to do something I wish they didn't have to do. When there is a
happy ending, we all love hearing about it and to me that is better than
hearing thousands of pets are kept in homes they are not enjoyed in.
Millie and her kissing, attention seeking, loving noble cleaning crew
Easy Off: the most perfect ferret in the whole wide world
Ammonia: I can dance as good as any old stuck up perfect ferret any
time of the day.
Cascade: Dizzy, oh Dizzy, where are you honey, I found mistletoe.....
Ajax: hup one, two, tree, hup (next year I'm pulling Santee Paws sleigh)
Dizzy: ssssssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhh, Christmas is over in five more
days, stomp on the mistletoe.
Joy: Can't you say the word NO, Dizzy, No pain, no gain - Just say it.
[Posted in FML issue 2531]
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