[Ashley V]

Sometimes financial problems happen. If you can't even afford to feed yourself, how could you afford to feed your dogs? And if you can't eat, then you'll get sick and how could you care for your dogs then? Giving them table scrapes isn't healthy for them either...

Seriously, some people just need to think a little bit more. I would NEVER give up my dogs for no good reason, but if I thought they were better off with someone else, then I would give them up... and it would hurt A LOT, but it would be for them... not ME. I also would NEVER give them to just anybody.

I'm in a really bad financial situation right now, and I seriously thought for a little bit about my ability to take care of my dogs. I've cut back on everything, but when you're the only one working taking care of yourself and your spouse and your two dogs and your bills equal out to be about $1000 more than what your income is... you start questioning things and it's not fair for other people to judge me, or your neighbor, or a person in a completely different state. You don't know what someone's life is like until you've walked a mile in their shoes.

Now what disgusts me is people that abandon their animals... my MIL's neighbor had his house foreclosed on and he left his three rotties there...