{"id":1578,"date":"2019-07-15T13:05:13","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T17:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/?p=1578"},"modified":"2019-07-15T22:03:13","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T02:03:13","slug":"how-sheltered-are-abandoned-or-surrendered-companion-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/blog\/2019\/07\/15\/how-sheltered-are-abandoned-or-surrendered-companion-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"How &#8220;Sheltered&#8221; are abandoned or surrendered Companion Animals?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Kill_Shelter..jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Kill_Shelter..jpg 640w, https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Kill_Shelter.-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Kill_Shelter.-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today,  this image was posted on Facebook, with the following commentary, by a fellow named Jason Franks<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>I died today<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>You  got tired of me and took me to the shelter. They  were overcrowded and I  drew an unlucky number. I am in a black plastic  bag in a landfill now.  Some other puppy will get the barely used leash  you left. My collar  was dirty and too small, but the lady took it off  before she sent me to  the Rainbow Bridge . Would I still be at home if I  hadn\u2019t chewed your  shoe? I didn\u2019t know what it was, but it was leather,  and it was on the  floor. I was just playing. You forgot to  get puppy toys. Would I still  be at home if I had been housebroken?  Rubbing my nose in what I did  only made me ashamed that I had to go at  all. There are books and  obedience teachers that would have taught you  how to teach me to go to  the door. Would I still be at home if I hadn\u2019t  brought fleas into the  house? Without anti-flea medicine, I couldn\u2019t get  them off of me after  you left me in the yard for days. Would I still be  at home if I hadn\u2019t  barked? I was only saying, \u201cI\u2019m scared, I\u2019m lonely,  I\u2019m here, I\u2019m here!  I want to be your best friend.\u201d Would I still be at  home if I had made  you happy? Hitting me didn\u2019t make me learn how.  Would I still be at  home if you had taken the time to care for me and to  teach manners to  me? You didn\u2019t pay attention to me after the first  week or so, but I  spent all my time waiting for you to love me. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>I died  today. <br \/><\/em><br \/><em>Love, <br \/>Your Puppy<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> If you don&#8217;t think this really happens&#8230;.you aren&#8217;t living in reality&#8230;..<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspca.org\/animal-homelessness\/shelter-intake-and-surrender\/pet-statistics\">they die daily&#8230;..thousands&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"612\" height=\"634\" src=\"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Kill_Shelter01.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Kill_Shelter01.jpg 612w, https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Kill_Shelter01-145x150.jpg 145w, https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Kill_Shelter01-290x300.jpg 290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">God Help Us All<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bee Man Dave<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, this image was posted on Facebook, with the following commentary, by a fellow named Jason Franks I died today&#8230;. <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/blog\/2019\/07\/15\/how-sheltered-are-abandoned-or-surrendered-companion-animals\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,9,10,11,23,13,16],"tags":[714,811,715],"class_list":["post-1578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-humanity","category-nuttiness","category-observations","category-political-rants","category-questionable-decisions","category-ruminations","tag-animal-shelters","tag-betrayal","tag-euthanization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1578"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1586,"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions\/1586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}