Elderly Pup Thrown Away Like Trash – Rescuers Hear Owner’s Excuse And Gasp In Dismay
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Elderly Pup Thrown Away Like Trash – Rescuers Hear Owner’s Excuse And Gasp In Dismay

When rescuers heard why an owner was ditching a senior pooch and her brother, they were just in shock.

Volunteers at the Humane Animal Treatment Society hear all sorts of excuses, but this one was especially grievous, simply because the two dogs were elderly.

The pups, Donnie and Marie, spent most of their lives outside. For 10 years, they called a backyard in Michigan home.

And that was okay; they didn’t appear to be mistreated or abused in any way.

But the owner suddenly decided to ditch them at the shelter, and when the team there asked why … well, they weren’t prepared for the response.

Firstly, the owner said the two dogs had been “barking too much,” and she just didn’t want to care for them any longer.

That alone is ridiculous; maybe they were barking because they needed the TLC they weren’t getting!

But then it got worse.

Mandy Risch, the Human Society’s director, asked the owner why the dogs had been riding in the back of a truck bed. It was extremely cold outside, after all.

The owner’s response?

The two dogs were “too smelly” and she didn’t want them inside the truck.

So, they barked too much (likely because they were being mostly ignored) and they smelled (because they desperately needed a bath).

Whose fault is all this?!

Risch said the dogs were absolutely filthy when they arrived at the shelter, too:

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Benjamin Stephen Dutka is a journalist, writer and editor with over two decades of experience. He has worked with three newspapers and eight online publications, including the Norwich Bulletin, Hartford Courant, Booktrib.com, AskMen.com, and PoiseMedia, Inc. He also won a Connecticut short story contest entitled Art as Muse, Imaginary Realms, and has a penchant for rowing, reading, video games, and Objectivism.

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