Just a thought I couldn't shake from my mind on my run today. I passed a sign posted to a tree offering a $200.00 reward for a lost dog, he is 5 years old. My first thought when I saw it was one of total despair, then I noticed the $200.00 reward and I was wondering how someone puts a dollar amount to finding their lost dog? I mean, I understand posting a reward to give people (kids) incentive to hop on their bikes or grab their skateboards to look for it, but why 200 bucks? Shit if I lost my dog, my reward would be my car or my house or my life savings or whatever the hell anyone wanted from me. I can't imagine ever having to put a sign on a tree because I lost my pet. I don't honestly know what I would do and it's one of those things in life I hope I never have to find out.
As I continued on my run I immediately started looking around... maybe, just maybe I'd see him- somewhere and then I thought of the 200 bucks again and how I would love to be able to tell the owners I didn't want their money, maybe it was all they could literally afford to offer, and how sad is that. Returning their dog to them would be worth so much more than that, nothing would make me happier- not even a million bucks. The thought of someone losing their pet makes me sick to my stomach.
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Losing one of our pets has always been my biggest fear. Poor Molly still goes outside on a 20' long flexi leash because we don't have fencing up in the yard yet. Your graphic reminded me I still need to change the info. on her ID chip. Thanks for putting that there!
I wouldn't take the money either if I found someone's lost pet. I would be out of my mind if one of our girls was lost.
I really could go on for quite some time about people and pets, and how many stupid people there are, but I won't.
My friends had their dog put to sleep. BP told them we just couldn't take her. They said they were going to talk us out of it if he had said yes.
ahhh...i had not idea you were a pet lover. have u mentioned that before?
Hi sassyfemme,
My biggest fear too.
Hey zoe,
I could go on for days, even months about how idiotic people are with animals. It's one of those things I can't even think about. I'm sorry for your friends. Putting my dog to sleep a few years ago was one of, if not the worst day of my life.
oh yes afunt,big time. I have a wonderful little kitten now named Thisbe and we are just waiting to move before we adopt a pup. It kills me not owning a dog, we had to put our 14 year old cocker spaniel to sleep a couple of years ago- It was horrible. Animals are more important to me than my family (almost). It's one of those things in life that feels huge. Overwhelming.
Bitchy Kitten may be a grumpy pet, but she and I have been roommates for nine years now, and I've really come to adore her.
She hisses at everyone that comes over, always eats my plants, humps my blankets, and steals crackers and eats them all over the nice wool rug. But then there are the great things about her - like the way that no matter what time I go to bed or how late I sleep in, she sleeps on the bed with me. Or the way that she gets so happy when I get home from work that she'll start purring like a Mack truck and bang her head against the coffee table. Or how she watches TV on her back with her belly spread all around her like a miniature Al Bundy.
I don't know what I'd do if I ever lost her. I sure know that I'd cough up whatever I needed to to get her back. There's no cat like her. :)
So sorry to hear about your puppy, rd - can't wait until the move so you can take on a new baby!
It terrifies me to think that my boys could get lost or even that someone would kitty-nap them, thats why fairy and I decided not to make them out door kitties.
When I was a kid, a lady was giving away her dog cos she was moving abroad we took the little cutie in, he was a Yorkshire Terrier, such a fluffy thing bless him and went by the name of Treasure (yeah I know, weird huh?) oneday Treasure did a runner in the park, I was shouting "treasure, treasure" and got so many looks, the people must have thought I'd found real Treasure, muppets ;-)
Just thought I'd share that bt hun cos you brought it back fresh into my mind, cheers, they were good days :-)
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r.d. - that is awesome you are so connected to your pets. I have none, never have...i don't dislike them in any way...i just have always been on the move which would make it tough to care for them properly. I am around them though via friends and such and i do enjoy them very much.
It scares me as well to think that we could lose our pup, we have a fenced in yard and all but there are other tennents who don't shut the gate all the time. you have to be right on top of that stuff luckily sneakers isn't a runner
hmm, you know.. really I don't think I would offer up my car for my lost dog.
but what do I know. she keeps coming back.
Our Rosie girl went missing for three days last year after one of the repair guys left the gate open.
It was a crushing three days we spent crying and searching for her.
That guy never got to come back on our property as he'd been warned over and over about making sure the gates stayed closed.
We put "Reward" on the flyers, but who knew how much we could really afford. Fortuantely, the guy whose porch she'd been sleeping on (he was feeding her hot dogs, which is why she never came home) refused any money. Which I thought was nice at the time, but I'm with you. I could never accept money for finding and returning someone's pet.
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