I often read obituaries in our local paper, sometimes because I know the person and sometimes because I’m just curious. Quite a few of the obits ask for donations to a favorite charity. Often that charity is an animal shelter or a facility that takes care of pets and puts them up for adoption.
Those facilities exist because pet owners no longer wanted the responsibility or perhaps the cost of taking care of a pet that they owned. I suppose in a very few cases the pet wandered away, but even that betrays a lack of responsibility. What is wrong with pet owners? Don’t they consider that owning a pet also comes with the care and feeding of that pet?
Lancaster Farming recently ran an article about the problem of unwanted potbellied pigs. They are cute when they are little, but they grow up to be large animals, more suited to a barn than a living room. Baby chicks at Easter grow up to be hens that peck, scratch, and crap. Those cute kitties grow up to roam in your yard and kill birds. Before you take that sweet little puppy home, remember the it won’t always be quite so cute.
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