Agony Aunt
Created | Updated Jun 21, 2003
This week dear readers I am not answering a question, instead I am asking one of my own. This is something I have asked before now but would like to hear your thoughts on this sad subject.
Why do people purchase or receive for free pets that they do not really want? They must not want them because they never pay attention to them. I see these people who own cats but never go near them or allow them into their home. They own dogs but keep them in a small pen never thinking about the heat and how miserable it makes the poor thing.
I mention this because down the road from me is the sweetest most gentle dog I have ever had the pleasure of seeing. This dog is meant for cold climates, he is covered in long thick fur. Never once has this dog, to my knowledge, been bathed or groomed. Never has this dog been allowed inside (even during the worst of heats). Never have I seen the first person that lives in this house play with this dog. It just wanders from one end of his pen to the other . What makes me even sadder is that this is not a freak occurrence, it happens all the time. You do not have to look far to see a pet being ignored. So tell me, why do people have pets they do not want? If they treat their pets this way how must they treat their fellow man?
