I'll Never Understand Why People Give Up Their Pets

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Over at Facebook I do a lot of what is called "crossposting" of the urgent cats needing to be rescued/adopted/fostered and usually from the high-kill shelters. I've come across the lame reasons why people "surrender" their pets which in all honestly make no sense to me. Here are some of the excuses: "New Baby"..why pray tell does one give up a pet due to this reason? When I was born there was the family dog named Candy who was a Beagle…did my folks give her up due to my "arrival"..NO. "Moving"…If one is going to move why aren't people taking their pets? "Allergies" This stumps me since often the case is that despite having had the pet for say ten years, now all of a sudden they want to get rid of the pet due to so-called allergies? "Too Old". I only came across such a case. The owner dumped their 20 year old cat into a shelter since the cat was "old". When I hear of something like this I sure hope karma bites them back and when that owner is "old" they are dumped somewhere. I think the all time "winner" I came across was a guy who dumped his girlfriend's cat since he didn't like the color of the cat..a black cat. If I were that girlfriend I'd dump that guy. I'm sorry but my cat comes first and wouldn't put up with such a "person"..and believe me I'm being polite as that's not the word I want to use. Now I've had cats ever since I was five years old. To me they are like my "children" to nurture, to love and to have until their passing. That photo is of me not yet even a year old with Candy the family dog,