S. Africa: Isn't this just so incredibly heartbreaking?

Question

A DOG with a note attached to its collar was pushed out of a moving car in front of the Animal Welfare Society (AWS) shelter in Victoria Drive, Port Elizabeth yesterday.

With pet owners feeling the economic pinch, the AWS has had to cope with an increasing number of unwanted pets, but never one delivered in this manner before.

The note attached to its collar read: “This dog is named ‘Snugs’ and belonged to a little boy who can’t keep her anymore.

“I’m hoping someone will give her a home, (she has) been spayed and vaccinated. Please help her, excuse the paint on her!”

AWS vice chairperson Heloise Boakey-Milner said: “The Welfare opens at 10 and the lady who brought this dog came early. She drove here and let the dog out of a moving car. The dog ran after the car and we sent an inspector to find it.

“There is nothing much we can do. We have reported the matter to the police. Fortunately the dog was not injured, but it was traumatised.” — The Herald, Avusa Group News

Answer 1

A rather cruel method. The person should have stopped the car, got out and taken the dog inside to the welfare office. Or if that was too embarrassing, then to put an ad in the paper traing to find a home for the dog.  Or tie the dog to the welfare gates with a bowl of water and food (even that is cruel).

Answer 2

that's so sad...I could just cry....pets are like children. You love them and nurture them......I once pulled out of a sale agreement on a property cos I couldn't keep my cat. The real estate agent thought I was silly.....I guess what I'm trying to say is that it must be really heartbreaking to have to give up your pet cos you can't afford to anymore

Answer 3

Very sad but keeping pets is very expensive. I don't think people realise that when buying one for their kids.

Answer 4

This makes me so sick. But on the other hand she did leave it at a shelter which is better than driving off and leaving her in the veld.  They must have loved and cared for her to have had her spayed and vaccinated. With the economy like it is people can't even look after themselves.

Hopefully it will find a good home.

Answer 5

I understand being treated unfairly/being poor but;What I think is sad is how little she cared for the dog to push him out of a moving car and drive off......How can you love something and treat it so crudely.......It wasn't the dogs fault.....Blessings Yahoo

Answer 6

That is so cruel! If people can't afford pets they must not get them in the first place! Especially if they treat them like this! Unlike people animals unfortunately can't tell us what is wrong and this means they are very vulnerable.

Answer 7

Dogs have just as much right to live as humans. The fact that this woman shoved the dog out of a moving car really gets to me. She could have taken the dog to her local  RSPCA and for a small fee left him there.

Frankly this has nothing to do about the starving people around the world this has to do with a person who was heartless enough not to care whether the animal got hurt or not.

Bubbles don't you remember the poor Alsatian whose owners stuck a firework up the poor animals backside and lit it. There are countless of animals mistreated in SA, same as here in the Uk.

Answer 8

Yes, very heartbreaking. But I do agree in a sense with Pete, that we should be more concerned about people, especially children who are abandoned.

Answer 9

well i come from southafrica and i have not heard of something this bad until now

Answer 10

Its not that bad.  Maybe if she starved and beat the dog i may feel bad.  Still then I may not.

Answer 11

There are people starving in Africa and there's a whole society dedicated to animal welfare? That is quite heartbreaking!

Answer 12

I can not believe someone can do this

Pets is not that expensive like most people say

I just got a puppy and her food cost me R40 per month and her toys no more that R40 as well so round it of it wont cost you more than R100 per dog.

And if you really want to save give the dog the food you dont eat at dinner.

A pet is true and loyal it gives you love when you feel alone it gets excited when you come home after a long day of work and yes they want to play then but this also will help you to relax and forget about work

Answer 13

It is really sad, at least they cared enough about their pet to want to make sure he/she is taken care of instead of leaving it to fend for itself, it must have been hard to just leave the dog and go

Answer 14

To the ignoramus "people"? above, humans can take care of themselves, pets cannot, that's why they are labeled as such. Its so sad, no wonder the world is in the state it is!!!

Answer 15

It's only a dog. Think of all the PEOPLE who are suffering...