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Originally Posted by MeganS  I am so upset by what I'm reading right now. First of all, Ellen didn't badmouth rescues AT ALL. She explained the situation. She was EMOTIONAL about it. Are you people telling me if you spent ALL that money, got attatched to a dog, sadly had to give it away, and then had it taken out of your life completley you wouldn't be emotionally scarred? We all say ALL the time that we would do ANYTHING to get our dogs back if they were taken from us. Jeez. Ellen wasn't trying to get people to send death threats. She was asking for the dog back. I am so furious right now. |
Megan, I'm so upset too, but do not believe that Portia and Ellen gave a lot of thought into this whole situation. They just did a lot of actions without thinking about the conqenences.
1. Getting a dog without thinking about how it would work with their cats.
2. Not reading the contract.
3. Spending money to train the dog but not giving anytime for the dog to have a chance to change behavior (it takes more than 2 weeks for any animal to settle in a new environment).
4. Giving the dog away without permission.
I do feel bad for Ellen, Portia and the family, but feel that if someone truly cared about the dog they got from a rescue they would of bothered to read the contract, thought about bringing the animal in their home, if whether or not their cats would get along with it.....
I think someone who cares puts more thought into bringing a pet home, they do not give it up after 2 weeks. The amount of money someone spends does not make them care or be good animal owners.
Then they gave the dog illegally ( I know they claim not to have known that, but all they would of had to do was take the time to read the contract)away to someone else after after spending tons of money on training that they did not even give a chance to work does not show me attachment.
If they did some planning about the responsibility of pet ownership and if the rescue would of screened them better, none of this would of happened.