Where is the most common place that pets are abandoned?

Question

i wish to rescue an abandoned animal, its just something i've always wanted to do. i think the feeling of helping an animal at its lowest and lonliest point would be immensly self satisfying. anyone thinking of throwing out their pet? i'll gladly take it in :) i live in wales, uk.

Answer 1

Rehome one from a rescue centre :-)

We found a dog at our stables, it followed one of the livery's cars down the road and we thought it had been dumped here because we were a farm. Anyway, the dog warden came and checked it over, we kept it for a few days. Anyway she was lame and didn't seem to be getting better so she went to our local kennels, they examined her and said she'd been living rough for 2-3 weeks (it was the middle of winter) and she was lame from being hunched up out of the cold, her muscles were sore. They found her a lovely new home :-)

My dog turned up in my garden looking like a bramble bush with eyes. I shut the garden gates but I was on my way to a christening and she  disappeared while I was out. I spent days looking for her around the estate and then I found out where she lived. Turned out she belonged to an old lady who had gone into hospital 6 weeks prior and the dogs care had fallen to the son. He let her roam the streets and rarely fed her. There was another one too, but that was a bit blind so didn't go far, it stayed in and ate any food that was put out so the other one didn't get any and had to scavenge. I said to the lad that if he didn't want them I'd be happy to take them. He said he'd speak to his elderly mum as they were her dogs. Anyway half an hour later he turned up on my doorstep with 2 Cavalier King Charles Spaniels, both terribly matted, one very underweight and one overweight and said "she said you can have them" and that was that! They didn't have proper leads, just bits of rope, and there bowls were battered and filthy. Anyway, both dogs were vet checked, I kept one and my best friend took the other one. Lottie (my dog, renamed from Sophie) is now the picture of health and enjoys regular trips to the grooming parlour as well as lovely long walks in the countryside, with lots of treats so she never has to worry about food again! The other one, Saffie (renamed from Simone) is also very happy with long walks, my friend's daughter adores her, and Saf has also lost a bit of weight!!!

So there's some success stories about rescuing. There are many rescue stories that I could tell that do not have such a happy ending, but I won't!