I just really have a hard time believing that if everyone pushing the rescue of Emma were adopting your first Yorkie or an addition to your family would be able to do it. It's IDEAL and it's easy to say. But if you had just invested $1150 in Emma and come to find out she was not a fit for your home would then scrape up the extra amount to have her spayed and basically give her away.
If there are indeed that many of you out there then my hat is off to you and perhaps you would like to adopt Emma and do just that?
I, however; work two jobs for my family, parrots, and dogs. I can say that while it's money that was saved, spent and would not have been spent if I could not of afford to. I am still not willing to just eat the loss. Her adoption was something that was saved for as a result my wife, and children expected an addition to our family. I work far to hard for the money and if I wanted to give it away I would have donated it to a rescue organization rather than use it for the adoption of Emma.
If that's shallow then I guess that I am a bad person but how many of you can honestly put yourself in our shoes and just continue to selflessly continue to hand over money as a result of you being ripped off? It's not an ideal situation for Emma but in the end she is not being abused and her life is not in danger whether she is with us or the seller. It's not ideal for her to go back to the seller given her attitude but it's what needed to happen and Emma could still of been FAR worse off, no doubt she was not abused by the seller. But she was put in the middle of an unfortunate situation.
Regarding a flight back to the seller, the only reason that I would not want to fly her to her adoptive home is because they need to meet and interact with her. We all take our dogs in the car and various other places, it's not cruel to ship a dog. They all spend time in a crate at some point or another, they are not being hurt or emotionally distressed so some extreme degree. The airlines are actually quite accommodating with pets, now days at least.
This just really bugs me, there is so much stress to do the right thing for Emma. I will always do the right thing for any pet. But it's just not realistic to continue to shell out money for a dog that was imposed on us in the first place. It would be a different story if she was there with us to stay.
Stop and SERIOUSLY put yourself in our shoes for a moment. You don't really know what you would do until you were in that situation. Everything changes when things are happening to you, it's human nature. |