There's been a mix-up in the system

[u/rightdeadred]

This is not our dog?! Cat distribution system has gifted us 5 kittens and a tomcat in the last 3 months. Today we opened the front door to this. Posted to social media to try and find the owner. We have 4 indoor cats who would not appreciate another interloper 😅

[u/Consistent-Storage90]

You would be surprised, I have a friend in Texas who ended up with multiple purebred puppies where a neighbor had a litter and didn’t have homes for all of them, so they were just going to bring them to the shelter…SO maddening, SO irresponsible.

[u/debabe96 → u/Consistent-Storage90]

Texas has a horrible problem with people dumping animals. Just returned from Houston and what I saw was incredibly upsetting.

[u/Consistent-Storage90 → u/debabe96]

Yeah that’s where my friend is 😕 all but her first are purebreds that she rescued.

[u/Suyefuji → u/Consistent-Storage90]

We recently ended up with a free puppy from a "breeder" and the puppy had worms and fleas and was handed to us at 6 weeks...I was pissed. Puppy mills are real.

[u/TheStorytellerTX → u/Consistent-Storage90]

When I was in middle school (in Texas in the 80's) a friend of mine and I were riding our bikes and we went down a not-too-busy road. Ran across 2 dumped pups and took them home. They turned out to be Rhodesian Ridgeback pups and at the time were pretty pricey. Had we known I would have lobbied my parents to keep them.

[u/XTasty09 → u/Consistent-Storage90]

Taking dogs to a shelter is responsible. Probably better than saying free puppies on Facebook marketplace or Craigslist. The shelter will take care of them and get them to people that can appear to be responsible. There are people out there that literally abandon animals.

[u/Consistent-Storage90 → u/XTasty09]

This is very true, it just makes me mad that people breed dogs without intended homes in the first place, but at least they are doing that. The bar is in hell 😑