Sometimes I think the animal shelters are just as bad.
One morning my mother and I got up around 6 am to pick up a dog that she had seen around that time each morning at the school she where she worked. The dog was very very ill and couldn't even stand up. The animal shelter told us that after hours or on weekends they kept a pen outside that people could drop animals off and they would take care of them. We took the little dog and put him in the pen. We had figured that they would put him to sleep since he was in such misery. He was so starved that he couldn't eat. It was horrifying.
Later that day I stopped by to see what they had done with the little dog and they told me that he was in "doggie intensive care" but was doing well. I felt so much better about it.
Then, my mother went by to see the dog and they couldn't show him to her. She fussed until they finally told her that they let him out of the pen accidentally..... The dog couldn't stand up but they "accidentally" let him out of the pen.
I was so mad that I went to the head of the humane shelter and she checked into it. She backed their story up and told me that sometimes they get "super doggie strength"....and that is what happened to the dog. He just jumped up and slipped out of the pen....
Uggggghhhh! I was sooooo mad......and still am.