How can you look at a dog, whom you’ve known and loved for YEARS, watched them grow old, have had them trust you with their life, and dump them in a shelter (or god-forbid, the street) to replace them with a much younger dog?
I’m talking about just straight-up dumping. If you can’t take care of them and give them away for a better life that’s one thing. But leaving them for no reason other than getting bored of them?? Sick.
Both my dogs are 14. Rescued both from the pound. One I adopted at 1 year old after being rescued from a puppy mill and having just been spayed. The other I adopted from the pound at just 4 weeks old after being taken from her mother too soon. They’re both old grandmas now. They can’t play like they used to. One has gone deaf. The other has heightened blood pressure. Like I said, they’re OLD. I can’t imagine how someone could look at a dog they’ve had for 7+ years and decide to leave them.
This was more of a rant, but yeah. Every time I see a senior dog in a shelter my heart breaks.