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Originally Posted by YorkieRose What changed my mind was, when I let a few friends care for a couple of my older girls when I was traveling. I wanted to think these girls loved only me...the truth is this...Yorkies adore people, any person who is loving to them. It was an ego buster for me. I saw an older girl so happy to be an "only"..she would visit me and be happy to see me, but she perferred her
"special" life and I could see it.
You could give me a bank account with a million dollars in it for vet care...that is the least of it...how can I sleep with 20 dogs? How can I walk them, take them to the park, take them on trips, how can have each one in my lap, brush their hair each evening, ..I can not do it and neither can any other breeder.
Love means doing what is best for the one you love, not yourself. I see no love in collecting dogs and denying them the best life I can provide..but I do not judge anyone who does not see it my way.
Bottom line, most of us breeders are cut from a different clothe and to the pet owner we are heartless in some areas of thinking. It is true in a sense, my heart can not do my thinking when it comes to doing what is best for my dogs. |
Awesomely said, Pat. I have not had to cross that road yet but I know one day I will. People don't understand people that place their retired dogs...I, for one, don't expect them to.