#shelter dog problems

[marxalittle]

The thing is, if you ask me "can i keep you," and i say yes?

You have to actually keep me

[stinkybrowndogs]

I mean I get that’s it’s not the only contributing factor, but I’m curious exactly how much of the shelter dog over-population problem is actually due to poor dog ownership/management vs the housing crisis and economical stress. I’d be willing to bet by investing in social programs that give people the resources they need to care for their pets (cough cough affordable and free housing cough cough) that the amount of pets in shelters would dramatically drop. We can all sit here pointing fingers and screaming at each other until we are blue in the face, but if the owners basic needs are not being met, how can we hold them to a basic standard for their pets?

[despazito]

"are you a slow paced person? you'll love this insane dog"

[wiremotherofficial]

I was about to tag you in the “bought a dog at the dollar store and it is a low quality animal” post until I realized it was you that reblogged it lol

Anyway how did you end up stuck with Beau for a dog?

something is wrong with me, so i was literally looking for the worst dog i could find. i knew i wanted a heeler or a kelpie, and that i wanted a project dog, and my best friend saw an ad from her local shelter that had him on it and she just sent it to me like come get your mans

so i did

[ssruis]

Future rks au where tsukasa gets a role as a divorce guy & to method act he and rui break up for like 5 weeks and during those 5 weeks they are genuinely the most irritating people to be around ever

[fruitless-vain]

I would 100% respect Certain Rescues a whole lot more if they started being clear about their dogs’ behaviour problems instead of skirting around the subject and dolling it up with sentences like “he just needs someone who really loves him!😌” *dog is a walking bite risk to anything that moves*

Getting dogs in to homes as fast as possible is Not Worth It when you’re putting dangerous dogs in homes not equipped to handle the problems you’re disguising.

[toadsrbutch]

me when my manual labor job leaves me tired and sore after work

[darkwood-sleddog]

dog id subreddits are so funny. thousands of people that can't recognize a garden variety pit bull.

[lewmagoo]

i hope y’all have a great day 🤗

[aldieb]

i just switched my browser to firefox (from brave bc i’m a freak and they were kind of changing the game tracking protection wise like 4 years ago) and it took a mere 15 minutes to port everything over perfectly ✨ i sound like an ad sorry lmao but i’ve been wanting to do this forever and was prevented by needing chromium’s ability to use different profiles in the same browser for my old job. which apparently already got fixed by firefox getting containers. whatever i’m a new man now

[loserelf]

oh also the guys that robbed our store several months ago came back today and tried to pull the same shit as last time somehow thinking i wouldnt recognize them lol. Like literally tried to pull the same bullshit they did last time by pulling me aside so his friend that walked in conveniently 2 minutes after him could try to steal more feliway and adaptil despite the fact they failed already last time bc they stole Empty boxes lol. Likw they didnt even try the guy was wearing the same outfit he did last time and the woman was wearing her mask with her nose sticking out again. Like guys i dont even like my boss but you guys are not doing this right

[aleatoryw]

the shelter: this cat is very timid and quiet. she spends a lot of time hiding, and we have never heard her make any noise

the cat after being in my home for a few months: *meowing because I'm not paying attention to her* *meowing because she entered a room* *meowing because she ate the last of her food* *meowing because I came home from work* *purring*

[ryn-city]

everything is in turmoil!!

[satans-knitwear]

If this chair tips either way... A pupper will get squished. I must stay very still. For a long time. What a shame.

[whippetcrimes]

When Misty came to work with me last weekend, a man came in to collect the money for a local dog rescue. And he asked me if she was a rescue then continued the conversation into older people should adopt old rescue dogs because if they get a young dog from a breeder, the dog will have nowhere to go if they pass before the dog and the family can't take the dog/doesn't want it... And I was just like. If I weren't on the clock right now, I'd at the very least have said that any good breeder would take the dog back... He even directly asked me, "what would happen to your beautiful designer dog if something happened to you and your partner?" I had to bite my tongue so hard.

[blindchandelure]

Both of my friends got pets in July. One was given a kitten as a birthday gift and the other (coincidentally) adopted a dog the day before my birthday.

Now I’ve got the urge to adopt something too