Woman Adopts A Senior Dog Because She Looked Like Her Childhood Puppy, Realizes It’s The Same Dog

Everybody has the luxury of getting a dog. Don't get one unless you are in a position to keep it forever. I got a new job that required me to live in a hotel in another city 3 hours flying time from home leaving Sunday lunchtime and returning Friday night. I got a pet sitter every week to look after my dog and cat until I finished at the job. Owning an animal is the luxury, if you can't make the commitment then don't get one.

Pets are a forever pact. You are responsible for them. They are not disposable beings you can have until "something happens". Because things are always happening (new job, new baby, new house, even the temper of the pet, or the breed...). If you EVER think pets belongs to a shelter when they are inconvenient, PLEASE do not EVER have an animal in your care. I do understand extreme circumstances and I do understand that sometimes you just have to give them away. But a shelter can never be an option. 99% of the animals that comes into a shelter are killed. Chloe was saved because she's small and cute and young. And if you really pay attention to her story, she was abandoned at least THREE times: the people who brought her (who has to pay for an animal??); the people who rescued her in the first place but then the woman died and of course, she needed a new family, and this person who published an elder dog named Chloe after two years of having her. It's a HORROR story. Poor dog!

I disagree. You can't just abandon your kid, so you shouldn't be allowed to abandon your animals either. These are s****y parents.

That's the part that makes zero sense to me- what job would mean you couldn't have a pet? Especially when the girl should be old enough to take care of it herself (she could have even done side jobs to help pay for Chloe's costs, less heartbreaking for her and would be a good lesson). While I agree that you don't always have a choice with work, if they were moving then the parents were either being lazy or didn't want to compromise something to get a pet friendly place (literally moved across the country for work with a dog myself a week ago with little money, took a dated place with a longer commute so I could bring my dog). Only situations I could think of were if they were moving to a different country where they absolutely had to fly (pets can die or be traumatized in cargo) or if it was a job where he had to live on company property.

I'm sorry, I don't agree. I'm quite poor but I respect my dog's feelings. She was abandoned before, she was absolutely devastated. If you just once saw how it affects them, you wouldn't abandon them or you are a bad person and don't deserve a dog. Life usually gives us choice. Shelter is a very bad place for an abandoned dog, because a dog needs an owner. Many people here are simply ignorant. Learn about a pet before you take it home.

Exactly.

The dog did not end up alright, it ended up with yet another person trying to rehome her when she is now old. She could have ended up euthanized. Also, you job typically has nothing to do with where you live. Get a new job and start looking for a new place to live, find a new place to live that lets you have dogs. Or don't take the job because dogs are not disposable. You wouldn't be like "Sorry Bobby Jr. Daddy has to give you up for adoption because Daddy got a new job." No. From the sounds of it, the parents were mildly inconvenienced and just dumped the dog at a shelter. Couldn't even try to rehome it themselves. It isn't a "luxury" it is being lazy a******s.

Exactly! I love your comment, you express my feelings! You are awesome and very brave

That's fine, but they didn't look for another house they took her to a shelter, they couldn't care less what happened to her.

Would you do that with your F*****G KID?

A pet is not a kid?

No, forgive yourself, open yourself to love. I gave up a kitten to the SPCA last year because someone dumped her on my doorstep. I cried for days and days because my other cat and I had bonded with her sister and not her and I could not keep them both, and especially could not keep a kitten that was unhappy in my home. I felt so sad knowing that kitten was going to be alone alone in the shelter. She was adopted within a day to a new family, a family that she fit with much better than my own. My parents adopted a kitten that was thrown from a car in front of their house. They have a second cat from the shelter who's the best, most loving cat I've ever met. He was five when they adopted him. I have an older cat from the shelter, who's a smart, loving, sweet and sassy girl. You gave those cats an awesome chance at life. You didn't abandon them, you left them in loving hands. Now you can return the favour and open your heart and doors to an animal in need.

Perhaps it is different in other countries, abandoning an animal in a shelter in my country implies not only overfilling the shelter (of kind people who strive to do everything possible to take care of them, although circumstances are always more complicated with people who leave more), but these animals never usually find another home and die in inadequate conditions. In the worst case, at least you have to find another family, which is what I did with more than 20 animals, all adopted except one that stayed with me, I really can't understand how they leave abandoned animals.

You tried, you did everything and you don't feel they were just objects. That's really precious. People who write that pets are just pets and you can get rid of them when something happens - they do not deserve forgiveness (but they don't feel they need it anyway). Forgive yourself, you really tried.

Please, for the love of all animals everywhere, NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER get a pet. NEVER.

Athaeris I knew a girl who had to gave up her cat because her baby turned out to be highly allergic. to the point she had wounds all over her body. she tried with all kinds of medicine for more than a year. what should she do, in your opinion? just curious.

Samhhain got a cat from a shelter. now with me for 3 years. my previous cat, also from shelter, was with me for 16 years. he died of cancer. so your argument is not only hateful, but also invalid. I never said it's ok to give up your animal, I only said we can not plan life 20 years ahead and anyone who says differently is delusional.

I studied at the university engineering with a deplorable economic situation, yet I was able to care for and rescue several puppies, one of them arrived with parvovirus, even so, with little time, with many responsibilities, with little money (I had to stop eating every two days to pay for her medicines), with a family that didn't want her at home (and it's not something I say lightly, the first time I wanted to rescue a dog, when I was 15, I ended up bathed in blood), I I got her to survive, I got her to recover and although she grew up too much for someone to consider her to adopt, I got my family to appreciate her and now she loves her, even when we discovered she had a tumor that we couldn't heal. If someone wants something you can always get it, don't make excuses that make you feel better about yourself.