Animal Abandonment, Do Not Discard After Use!

A Dog (or cat, rat or hamster) is for life. NOT just for Christmas! Taking an animal into your home is a responsibility. They give you their trust, affection, loyalty, devotion, and above all love. They don’t understand when one day they are taken for a ride in the family car and dropped off on the roadside and have their collar removed. The last thing they see is the people they have given their life to disappearing in a cloud of exhaust smoke! Many years ago as a serving soldier, my husband had a pet dog that was actually a rescue animal. After several months of owning the dog he received orders to be posted to Cyprus in the Mediterranean. Many people, his father included advised re-homing the dog. Instead he showed the same loyalty and devotion to the dog that the dog gave him for many years and at great expense took the dog to Cyprus with him. Now we can say the same about our family dogs. A geriatric lab and an over enthusiastic boxer. The point I’m trying to make is, we took on the responsibility, for always, not just while it suited us.

So the next time you see a car pulling over on the road, and someone placing a box, or trash bag or whatever on the roadside. Do what the motorists in Solvay did and nail them. Whether you’re an animal lover, or not. Would you treat a member of your family like that? (Mothers-in-Law excluded. JOKING!).