Comments on: Primal Rant: How can you dump a faithful old pet & replace it with a new one?

By: Barbara

Barbara — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 12:18:34 +0000

It’s actually quite disturbing to know that humans have the capability of turning off compassion or love to such a degree. Apparently the philosophy of those who simply dump an animal that they once adopted is: “If I don’t see it, it no longer exists.”

And, in interim, either before being re-adopted or meeting death, the animal either goes through depression, fear, confusion, bewilderment as to what happened to the human that it loves.

How sad.

By: Danielle in Concord

Danielle in Concord — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:28:03 +0000

As a part of a family of four, mom, dad & two boys I find it terrible that someone would let their long time family pet go. We have a Queensland Healer who just turned 19 years old this month. Yes I said 19! Some kind of record I’ve heard. We would never, ever get rid of her for a new puppy. She has been a trusted and loyal companion to us, my hubby and my first baby if you will. Although we will be sad when she passes, we won’t just run out and get a new one!

Anyway, thanks for posting this and letting us faithful pet owners make their voices heard.

Danielle

By: animal lover

animal lover — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:11:21 +0000

It is sad to see people abandoning older pets for younger ones, or just abandoning their pets or abusing them and mistreating them. But, it’s like everything else we do. As someone once quoted…it went something like this “the soul of a civilization can be seen in how it treats it animals.” Sad, but accurate. Let’s try to change this by treating our fellow creatures with respect and be true stewards of the planet and not destroyers.