Consider Rescue

rescue dog's pawThousands of animals are abandoned every day. Not just dogs and cats but horses, ferrets, rabbits, hamsters. If it lives and breathes, it can be chucked on the street it seems in this sad, disposable society.

The majority I guess, are simply tossed out like yesterday's news. The luckiest of these unfortunate creatures may be taken by their once loving owners to the local pet rescue, where the range of excuses for dumping another soul onto an overburdened system beggars belief.

To tell a heartsick shelter volunteer that the six month old Great Dane you are handing over, '...just got too big!' is to risk a belt in the mouth, but this and other statements just like it are heard in rescue shelters every day.

While a small number of the hundreds of thousands of abandoned animals that the shelters take in each year may simply have wandered away from home and an even smaller number are eventually reunited with their families, the vast majority have been kicked to the kerb by people who once loved them.

This kind of callousness is very hard to understand. Does a change in the owner's circumstances justify it. The loss of a job perhaps, a divorce, the arrival of a baby? None of it seems to be enough to condemn an animal to starve or freeze to death on the streets.

And those who at least have the humanity to take their animals to a suitable shelter. How can they handover the dog, the collar. the lead, his favourite toy and then turn and walk away? I have no answer to that but I often wonder just how many of these animals are thrown out or handed in because the owner did not do any breed research.

How difficult would it be to recognise that a border collie, one of the most intelligent of dogs and one that is born to work, may become destructive and hard to handle if cooped up in a flat all day?

So part of the reason for this website is to encourage everyone to do some research before choosing your next four legged friend. Follow the links to breeds on this website and also please consider rescue. There are a number of links to dog and horse rescue articles and I am always willing to add more should anyone have advice for would-be animal adopters.

 

 

  

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