One of the things I find to be quite telling about the area we live in is that there are currently 14 dogs listed on the Delco SPCA website that are up for adoption. 9 out of those 14 dogs are either pit bulls or pit bull mixes. Draw your own conclusions on that one.
The thing that really ticks me off, though, is when they have dogs like this one up for adoption:
This old boy is named Killian, and he is 10 years old. He is at the SPCA because his family was moving and they couldn't take him along. So this faithful friend who's been with them since 1997 was dropped off at the SPCA.
Now, I'm not being completely cynical here. I acknowledge that there was perhaps a tear or two shed over the matter. But to me, that's not enough. How could you drop a dog off at the SPCA and just move away? You have to know that he's probably not going to be adopted. People are barely willing to adopt young animals from the SPCA, let alone a dog that probably only has 5 or 6 years left to live at the most. At least for people like me, I would become way too emotionally attached to the dog for him to be with me for such a short time. We only had Porkchop for like 3 or 4 years and I still have dreams that she's still alive. Seriously.
It makes me think back to the stories of people in Louisiana who were rescued from the roofs of their homes after Hurricane Katrina. They were told that they had to leave their pets behind, so they left them stranded there - probably to die from either starvation or heat stroke. I told my dad, and he agreed, that I wouldn't have left my dog. I would have told them that either they take us both or they leave us both. I'm sure that a few people probably said that and that the rescuers really didn't have an option, but I'm serious. I wouldn't have left my friend to die. That probably sounds irrational to a non-dog person, but it's really the truth.
Anyway, that's probably enough rambling about dogs for one day. If you're the sort of person who could give a good home to a nice looking, older dog, go to the SPCA and adopt Killian. I'm sure he'd appreciate it.
2 comments:
Wow. Cleo's been around for 10 years now, and while I can certainly see why someone tossed her to the SPCA back before we adopted her, I can't imagine sending her back now. A real dog person finds a place that will let you move with the dog. Some of the places we looked at before moving out of our current place required an extra deposit for pets, but it would have been money well spent. (Yes, even for Cleo.) As it stands, we ended up finding another dog-person landlord, so all is well.
You know, Buffy's getting older, and I bet you Mom could be sweet-talked into saying "maybe another dog wouldn't be that bad..." You should see if the SPCA could wander by with Killian, kind of like Drew first came by with Mindy way back when.
If you buy my yard, for your dog, I'll throw in the house.
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