Importing Stray Pets from Other Countries
The other day I was reading how someone was bringing a stray home from the country they were visiting. What? We don't have enough unwanted pets here in shelters that you couldn't find one here?I really have an issue with this, as we have so many pets that need homes in our own country.
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I would have no issues with that. It is just another animal saved.
Animals don't know they are American or Canadian or Korean, they just know that they are miserable and suffering.
Seriously, animals are euthanized every single day because there are too many. What do we need to take other country's strays for? There's no telling if the person might have fallen in love with a stray here if they'd gone to the many shelters.
But to me the most important thing is that any dog was saved,no matter where he came from.
The mutt, a smallish lurcher I thought, attached herself to him when he was on holiday and he couldn't bring himself to leave her behind.
She ran rings round the much larger, dignified dogs and generally ruled the hearts of all four blokes.
I hear what you're saying Imp, the man spent a small fortune on getting her home and badly needed medical treatment, but like Molly, I say thank goodness for people who fall in love.
Who knows, maybe she set the chap on a path of adopting other mutts, or fostering, or involvement in local rescue organisations.
My cousin has rescued dogs from other European countries. We don't have a common language, so I don't know why. I suspect it was because they were in greater need, or at higher risk. She also rescued a pig which was going to be barbecued at a party she attended. I've never met her, but I like her already.
It's all about preferences.
I would rather focus on the kind deed.
My sister spends every winter in Spain and has done for years, and not only feeds the local stray cats, she has a rota set up among neighbours who live here permanently to keep them fed while she's away. Of all those cats, she bonded with one a few years ago, and it pined when she left and stopped eating, and is now a member of their family and goes back and forth with them. The very last thing she had wanted or intended, but when she left it behind for the first time she fretted (not even knowing it was pining) until she could go back and start the whole vets certificates / passport process. One cat - out of a dozen or more. These things not only happen, they're rather special when they do.
And of course Hammond brought back an old car zero value from one Top Gear trip, and how many hundreds of trips had he been on, and how many cars, most of them far fancier, driven?
That being said, Jim, I don't have a problem helping people from other countries. Especially those that are fleeing horrific conditions for a chance at a better life. Most people don't actually want to have to leave their homes, but they also don't want to have to live in a place where they and their children are not safe. I hope you're not inferring that I wouldn't want to help people from other countries.
As for pets, I don't imagine I'd want to see an animal suffer anywhere, but would I bring one home from vacation? I don't know, but I doubt it.
I see different comments here with your blog, I kinda agree with all comments.
I understand your thinking, I just think differently on this subject.
Low and behold the next morning that woman called me and offered the dog to me for $125 a huge amount way back then but I gladly paid it. Then my next problem was that I was newly married and I had to figure out how to tell me groom as he was out of town at the time. He let me get away with the dog (it was my money not his) and thus there was a strong bond with me and Magic, that little dog. I would never dream of going to a shop to buy a dog so no idea what possessed me to fall in love with that dog our bond was unbreakable.. I've only done rescue's since, That bond is what made my hubby always say when he came back he would want to come back as one of my dogs.
Now I tease my little dog and ask her if she is my ex? Then I tell her if she is she is lucky as hell.
Should we bring him home or leave him behind ?
Hi Imp..
Regarding dogs I really can't answer that as just the thought of it breaks my heart.
Maybe I should set up a home to rescue all dogs and cats or whatever ...
Just like Brigitte Bardot did?