Read before taking your dogs to dogs home!!!!

[serz]

That was so upsetting. My dogs show there feelings if that be happy, sad, excited, dissapointed, scared.

[Shell195]

we have this poem on our sanctuary wall


Baggage (The Meaning of Rescue)


Now that I'm home, bathed, settled and fed,
All nicely tucked in my warm new bed,
I'd like to open my baggage,
Lest I forget,
There is so much to carry,
So much to regret.
Hmmm...Yes, there it is, right on the top,
Let's unpack Loneliness, Heartache and Loss,
And there by my perch hides Fear and Shame.
As I look on these things I tried so hard to leave,
I still have to unpack my baggage called Pain.
I loved them, the others, the ones who left me,
But I wasn't good enough - for they didn't want me.
Will you add to my baggage?
Will you help me unpack?
Or will you just look at my things,
And take me right back?
Do you have the time to help me unpack?
To put away my baggage, to never repack?
I pray that you do - I'm so tired you see,
But I do come with baggage,
Will you still want me?

By Evelyn Colbath(c)1995 Baggage All rights reserved

[xXFooFooLaFluffXx]

Originally Posted by serz

That was so upsetting. My dogs show there feelings if that be happy, sad, excited, dissapointed, scared.

no one ever said dogs dont though serz, i just said its higly unlikely they show or feel the way that human wrote that article

[Tomcat]

Originally Posted by xXFooFooLaFluffXx

no one ever said dogs dont though serz, i just said its higly unlikely they show or feel the way that human wrote that article

Ah sorry, i didnt understand your point. I do now

[xXFooFooLaFluffXx]

Originally Posted by Tomcat

Ah sorry, i didnt understand your point. I do now

thanks i wasnt begrudgin anyone for believin animals dont feel like this, im just as soft as the next person and a sucker for a sob story but i feel this has been posted inappropriately and it doesnt speak for all dog homes, just some. i personally dont believe animals feel the way we do, i question it all the time to myself, but i dont believe they do

[Tomcat]

Originally Posted by xXFooFooLaFluffXx

thanks i wasnt begrudgin anyone for believin animals dont feel like this, im just as soft as the next person and a sucker for a sob story but i feel this has been posted inappropriately and it doesnt speak for all dog homes, just some. i personally dont believe animals feel the way we do, i question it all the time to myself, but i dont believe they do

I didnt mean to cause an argument if you saw what i said lol

Yeah i always question it when im with my dog and she does something that makes me think of a human emotion.

[xXFooFooLaFluffXx]

Originally Posted by Tomcat

I didnt mean to cause an argument if you saw what i said lol

Yeah i always question it when im with my dog and she does something that makes me think of a human emotion.

im a bit more morbid than that, i always ask if an animal knows its dying before it dies....... like when i took my rabbit to be pts cos she had broken her back i was askin the vet if he thought she knew it was the end etc

[Tomcat]

Yeah, i had a little chat with my Boxer when she got PTS, she just kept licking me face, which she never did so either she could tell it was killing me inside, or she knew :/ hmmm

[Saber]

I dont know why people treat animals so badly. I just find it appalling. I think its selfishness and also this thing that they dont have feelings. I think that animals feel pain and anxiety and fear and even if they dont have the same IQ as humans surely that means we should shoulder the responsibilities even more of keeping an animal.

I hate it when they are giving the death injections to animals which are strong and healthy and their only crime is to have bad owners.
Your story might be from a human perspective but its the truth of what can happen in some of these places.

[Tomcat]

Originally Posted by Saber

I dont know why people treat animals so badly. I just find it appalling. I think its selfishness and also this thing that they dont have feelings. I think that animals feel pain and anxiety and fear and even if they dont have the same IQ as humans surely that means we should shoulder the responsibilities even more of keeping an animal.

I hate it when they are giving the death injections to animals which are strong and healthy and their only crime is to have bad owners.
Your story might be from a human perspective but its the truth of what can happen in some of these places.

Im not being funny, but just because a dog ends up in a dogs home doesnt mean that it has bad owners. There are many reasons, which are un stoppable for people to put dogs or cats into homes!