I'm glad she found a home with you, thank you for taking her in!

Most shlters run at capacity and won't take pets just because someone walks in with them. Having been in a position where I suddenly ended up facing being homeless, I had to think about the health and safety of my pet. I didn't want to give her up, but I couldn't let her starve with me. But no shelter would take her because of their policies and constantly running at capacity.

I know it seems unlikely, but what if their WAS an important reason they couldn't leave them in a shelter? The point of my thought was just that, getting mad at the previous owner for doing something like this won't solve anything, it just adds to the fears and anxieties of today's world. Haven't you ever found yourself in a situation you realize might LOOK bad from someone else's perspective? Thing's aren't ALWAYS as they seem. I'm just posting this thought on here because I feel like a part of this post was to direct anger at the previous owner, but I think we panda's can do better than get angry at somebody else's business!

Not necessarily. I took a feral kitten to the shelter 13 years ago. They told me they would euthanize him the same day, then told me about TNR. I was moving from the house where I found him and feared the landlord would poison him. The place I was moving to was wooded, with foxes, owls, osprey and occasional coyote sightings which is why I took him to a shelter. I ended up taking the TNR option and releasing him in my new back yard. I thought I'd rather give him a chance in the wild than certain death after a fear filled few hours in a cage. He ran away for a few days, but then showed up on my doorstep, and 13 years later he still comes home every morning, eats, then heads back out for the day, unless it is cold or rainy, then he comes into the house and sleeps. He doesn't like being touched, but he will rub against us when he is feeling magnanimous. I'm glad I released him instead of leaving him to die in the shelter.

Haha yeah whoops, I get like that sometimes :P

Well, you can't really know that unless you were put into their situation can you? What if an abusive boyfriend/girlfriend was threatening to kill the dogs? What if it was too hard for them to sneak them to a safer place without being noticed? You really don't know WHAT their situation was.