Must absolutely be one of the hardest decisions to make - akin to giving a child up for adoption because you are unable to give it the care it needs and deserves. Too many people maybe hold onto animals because they cannot bear to part with them, but the animal suffers from isolation and imprisonment (home alone most of the day and no excercise) and sadly often neglect. Never judge someone giving up a healthy animal to a shelter for adoption and a better life than they can provide due to circumstances. Only judge those who just abandon their animals or keep them in pitiful conditions, neglected, miserable and uncared for.

It is better to leave an animal in a shelter than dump him in a river or in a forest. As an animal lover with a lot of experience in animal help I will always respect people who has a courage to bring a pet to a shelter and give up an animal in a CIVILIZED way. Not living it in a forest, highway or dumping them over the shelter fence at night (happens too many times..) and leaving till morning with injuries that it caused...

Poor sweet baby. It must be so confusing to see your person crying, know they're upset, then see them just walk away and never come back. I guess they grow to love their new home, but they would never forget their first home. Do they keep wondering, or just accept the change?

Just know that for every dog that gets adopted many do not and are euthanized. People! Spay or neuter your pets and think through if you are able to care for them. Don't adopt a pet if you are not absolutely 100% sure that you can provide them with a good forever home!

Glad there is a happy ending to this story; the look on that dogs face is heartbreaking.

You gys are incredible

I adopted my beautiful little schnoodle "Grace" from a local shelter. The staff told us her story and it broke my heart. Here previous owner was an older woman whose nephew moved in with her with his own dog. The woman was afraid Grace would be hurt. She was in tears leaving Grace. You can tell Grace was loved and if you say cuddle she runs over. I thought of trying to contact her original owner to let her know Grace is safe and loved.

This is my county pound. They are a normal pound with all the plusses and minuses. On the plus side, they work with a trap neuter return group I belong to. They pick them up, fix them and one of us takes the cats back to where they were found. On the minus side, they are a municipal kill shelter and can only care for animals for a certain amount of time because of overcrowding. There was an East Valley branch but it is closing. West and all the local shelters scrambled to find fosters for these pets. Take your pet to a shelter, if you can. Don't take them to animal control/the pound. They do the best they can but only as long as people are willing to pay taxes to fund them. In our red state, people are not.

It's so good that he has a forever home. I did not want to read the story because just the thought of him alone made me too emotional but today I did it and thank God he has found a family that can take care of him. The family that had to give him up must be feeling so sad but now they now that their fur baby is safe and happy :3

My MIL had to do this once. Her daughter brought a puppy and instead of taking care of it herself, it was on my MIL. It killed her to do it, but working almost 60 hours a week and not being able to really give him what he needed wasn't fair to him. So she wrote a letter from his point of view explaining what happened and what a good boy he was. The NEXT day she got a call from this guy saying he adopted AJ and he read her letter and felt he needed to let her know. He sent a picture of AJ and his new sister that he can play with and my MIL felt so much better. So yea don't bash the owners if you don't know what happened.

Finally something they do to babys too.

I JUST HATE PEOPLE WHO ADOPT A DOG THEN DUMP THE PET....IF YOU KNOW U ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE ENOUGH THEN DONT PET ANIMALS...DAMN IDIOTS.....AND AS FOR WALL E AND HIS PAWMAMA...TAKE CARE...GOD BLESS U BOTH ALWAYS...💜💜💜💜💜

I guess I'm a coldhearted person, but I would NEVER give up my cats unless I had a terminal illness and would die before they do. I can't understand people abandoning a dog like this, and I never will. They should have been responsible and not gotten them in the first place. I hate people.

I heard of a family who gave their dog to a shelter, then went back to the same shelter... for a different dog