July 27, 2005
most preposterous reasons for returning an animal...
I have a job. Full-time. I work at an animal shelter, sort of. And don't go trying to guess which one I work at and then go opening your email mouths to someone who could fire me, now. Lest I get dooced. I say all that to say this;
People try to return animals for balls-out insane reasons, believe you me. Nevermind entertaining the notion of returning your dog after having lived with it for 9 years because you've decided to move out of your house into another apartment that doesn't allow dogs. Look at these- I swear on everything sacred to me that they are real. They really happened. People really gave these as reasons. I promise...
- The dog doesn't match the decor of the house.
- My daughter is an opera singer and the dog's hair is getting caught in her throat.
- My dog's 10 years old and it's no longer of any use to me.
- My kid is imitating everything the dog does, now my daugher is drinking from the dog's water bowl and eating out of his food dish.
- I took a bath with the puppy and now I have scabies all over my body.
- The blind guy in my building is allowed to have a dog, so I figured I could, too.
- My mother's afraid of it.
- The cat is the same color as a squirrel.
- The dog has too much gas.
- The kids says that the dog's not cool enough.
- My vet doesn't like my dog.
- The dog is sick.
- The dog grew bigger than my 5-year-old son, and now he can't walk it. (editor's note: please do not assign the complicated task of walking your dog to your 5-year-old kid. EVER.)
And the best one ever, in my opinion:
- You told us the dog has worms. We understand this, but the dog has a red worm that sometimes comes out of it's belly and then goes back in.
Ma'am, your dog's a male. That red worm is your dog's penis. Do you still want to return the dog?
Umm, yeah.
Please, by all means, send me your craziest reasons for returning your dog, or the reasons your best- friend-forever returned her dog. Whatever you want, honeypie. My email address is: m@dropthatsock.com. Toodles.
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I work with a guy that adopted a puppy and then got it home and returned it after two days b/c get this, they work and the puppy would be alone. Ummmm did this not occur to you before taking the puppy???
Posted by: Kristin & CharlieDog ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.dropthatsock.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at July 28, 2005 10:37 PM
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