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crankylexI have a serious problem with people who offer to sell their pets.
Would you sell your children? I don't think so. (If you would sell your children, ignore the rest of this, because it doesn't pertain to you.)
When you adopt a pet, you make a commitment to that animal for the lifetime of that animal. Not until you are bored with it, or inconvenienced by it. And if by chance something drastic happens and you can no longer maintain the health and safety of the animal, it falls on your head to find another suitable home.
You do not hawk the animal and its belongings like you were selling a car. You do not say things like "$100 or best offer". You do not reduce that animal, the animal that depends upon you for survival, to an item to be sold to the highest bidder.
You find someone who is capable and willing to care for the animal, and you gratefully allow that person to adopt your pet. If that person feels financial recompense for shots, food, etc. is appropriate, then that is fine.
But to sell your pet like a beat up Toyota? No.
Just... No.
Would you sell your children? I don't think so. (If you would sell your children, ignore the rest of this, because it doesn't pertain to you.)
When you adopt a pet, you make a commitment to that animal for the lifetime of that animal. Not until you are bored with it, or inconvenienced by it. And if by chance something drastic happens and you can no longer maintain the health and safety of the animal, it falls on your head to find another suitable home.
You do not hawk the animal and its belongings like you were selling a car. You do not say things like "$100 or best offer". You do not reduce that animal, the animal that depends upon you for survival, to an item to be sold to the highest bidder.
You find someone who is capable and willing to care for the animal, and you gratefully allow that person to adopt your pet. If that person feels financial recompense for shots, food, etc. is appropriate, then that is fine.
But to sell your pet like a beat up Toyota? No.
Just... No.
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Date: 2003-02-15 04:25 pm (UTC)I love my pets almost as much as my own child, and I could never think of parting with them.
I don't think my dog would survive it, as she likes no one but my own family.
If I found it a last resort or in my pets best intrest that I no longer be their owner, I'd do everything in my power to find them a better place to live.