Abandoning pets is despicable, cowardly
This is an open letter to all the people who make the heartless decision to abandon their animals. If I was allowed to use expletives in this letter I would have a few choice ones for you. I have a really difficult time even beginning to understand the mentality of someone who would choose to do such a thing. To whomever dumped all the kittens at the Clark Fork dump, to the person who dumped the kitten three miles up Lightning Creek and to the person who dumped the black and orange cat on the same road; you're a class act! The kitten was extremely ill and its eyes were completely matted closed. You obviously did not want to spend any money on it so you chose to abandon it. The black-and-orange cat was so cold and so emaciated last night it could barely move. She is literally some fur and skin draped over her spine and ribs. We have been trying to catch her for at least a month. Last night she was so cold and starved she finally gave in to us.
If you can't afford to take your pet to the vet or if you can't afford to spay or neuter your animal, then you have no business owning one. It's that simple. I cannot imagine how confused and scared any animal is when you choose to abandon it. I would prefer you killed it if you don't want it anymore. Believe me, it's more humane than letting it starve or freeze to death if no one happens to find it. Who are these people? Probably the same people who drove by my house during hunting season in a van with the back sliding door open, sitting in lawn chairs with their guns across their laps. (No, I'm not an anti-hunter) Or the same person who shot a fawn on my father's property, cut off the back straps and left it to die. As unpleasant and heartbreaking as this is, the fawn did not die right away, it drug itself through the snow quite a ways before it succumbed.
Last but not least, to all those who dump their pets, I wish I could be your master for a day. I would dump you way up in the mountains with no food or protection. And I would have no mercy just like you!
LEANNA PORATH
Ponderay