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Originally Posted by Ladymom  I am so upset!
It is in the 70's today in North Carolina so I decided to take Lady for a long walk in the neighborhood. An older lady was getting groceries out of her car and started talking to me. She told me she'd had Yorkies for 40 years so I started telling her how much I love Yorkies and that I'd planned to get one as my empty nest dog until Lady came into my life as a rescue.
I told her how old Lady was and how special she was to me. She then told me that her last Yorkies were littermates and lived to be twelve before she had to put them to sleep. She then explained to me that when she decided to move to the neighborhood to be close to her daughter, she had them both euthanized because she couldn't handle walking them on a leash! (We are in the city limits so it is a local ordinance).
I was speechless. I cherish every birthday my Lady has. I was in a terrible car accident a few years ago and had to spend months in the hospital, then months in a wheelchair so I wasn't able to walk Lady for a long time. It never occurred to me to have her put to sleep. I spent $1200 a month to have her and my two cats boarded, then taught her to use pee pads when I came home. I have also given Lady two insulin shots a day for going on eight years to keep her alive.
It gets even worse. This lady then tells me that she went into a pet store with her daughter a few months after she moved in and they had a "designer dog", a Yorkie and Chihuahua mix and she bought it! So now she's leash walking anyway and her two senior babies are dead.  |
OMG!
Some people are heartless. This lady doesn't deserve a dog - or any pet for that matter. She will probably put her yorkie/chi mix to sleep when it inconveniences her life too.