I have avoided posting in this thread, and everyone who knows me from other boards knows that I
adore the "line by line" and have no qualms about ripping posts apart. I actually enjoy it quite a bit.
I have lived with two Slougis, and I have two cats that beat up my Pit Bulls; so I've had lots to say, but have been quiet
However, I can not let this comment go.
I know this board is full of animal lovers, as it should be, and I am as well, they have no voice, we have to be their voice, but something that was seemingly resolved over a year ago with a HAPPY ENDING, why rehash it?
I was the victim of abuse as a child. My abuser is a sick individual who never got help for his behavior. I am now a healthy adult who is dealing with that abuse. But that doesn't make the abuser not responsible for their actions just because there is a "happy ending" 30 years later, let alone one year later.
Why rehash it? Because what she did was horrible. It was criminal, and it was
clearly proven through photos and vet records. According to her, the dog was "fine" when it left her care, but the
same day the dog went to the vet emaciated and quite frankly, not all that far from death. The most disturbing part of that, for me, is that she insists that the dog was "fine" which means that she thinks what she did was ok.
Whether the evidence came up a year later, or five years later, she still did it. And unless she has received psychiatric help, she is likely to do it again. She should not have pets unless she is being closely supervised by people who have the ability and intestinal fortitude to remove the pets for any reason at any time.
And I have some experience with a dog that someone did the same thing to. This is Connor on the day I started fostering him, he was one week out of the dumpster, and had spent that week in a vets office on IV's because his body couldn't process food when they found him in the dumpster. He's 34 pounds in this photo, and was 29 when he was found by a garbage man.