Heartless Dog Owners With a Side of Frozen Puppy
One of my pet peeves (pardon the pun) is when people leave their dogs outside for hours on end, especially when it is freaking cold. There are some apartments adjacent to my neighborhood and in the winter when the trees are leafless, I can see the back corner of one of the buildings. On the third floor of this building, the family recently got this adorable puppy (I’ve seen them walking him…once). Right now, that poor puppy is sitting in a cat carrier on the balcony crying his little puppy heart out. Seriously, crying. This isn’t the first time, nor do I bet it will be the last. Today isn’t very cold. I was just outside with a t-shirt, so the weather isn’t bad. But I have seen/heard him out there when the weather is sitting at about 35 degrees. Seriously…who gets an adorable puppy and leaves him in a cat carrier outside for hours in 35 degree weather?! Of course, that gets all the other dogs in the neighborhood barking like crazy and just amplifies the heartlessness of people.
There is another dog in my neighborhood who sits outside, barking, every night, until about 1030 when I assume he either passes out from hypothermia, or his owners finally bring him inside. It’s just sad. It’s one thing to get a dog and train him to go outside to use the bathroom. It’s an entirely different thing to get a dog and make him an outside all-the-time dog. Why bother? What is the point of that? Why get a pet at all?
I know dogs are a lot of responsibility. I know dogs are a handful. I don’t own a dog anymore for this fact exactly. I don’t plan on getting a dog (much to my kids’ and Mr. W’s dismay) for this fact exactly…well that and I’m becoming fairly allergic to them…which is weird in itself as I had dogs for a great majority of my childhood and never felt the slightest twinge of an allergic reaction. But these people, these heartless dog-owning people, just don’t have the sense to either resist getting a dog, or at least allow it in the house in it’s rightful place as part of the family. WTF???
