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<< we gave ourselves a birthday present for the first time ever. our present was Allie, our dog.  three months later we got fired from our job, and three months after that we were home- less.  we asked our friend to take care of our dog, until we found a place.  however, the place we found would not let us have a dog.  our dog was causing our friend’s dog to have seizures, so we had to take our dog to the Humane Society. we cannot forgive ourselves for what we did to our dog. we will never forget the look on our face when we had to place her in the kennel at the humane society. we miss her so much.  there are not many things that make us cry (or at least so that we can control the tears, but this is one that we cannot control the tears).  It has been only one year since we had to take her to the humane society. we hope she found a new home…one that could take better care of her than we did.  we are so sorry. becki becki, It sounds like you did the best thing you could for Allie under the circumstances.  You certainly didn’t do anything wrong or bad.  You did the best thing possible when you knew you could not take care of her the way she needed to be taken care of. I don’t know if this helps, but it might…the Humane Society is a MUCH better place than the pound, because provided an animal is healthy, she/he will find a home.  The HS does not put animals to sleep after a week or two if they have not been adopted.  The animals stay until someone takes them home.  BTW…"healthy" does not mean young and in perfect health.  (I know, for example, that cats w/respiratory infections and other minor ailments are treated and adopted out.)  It’s the animals with things like feline leukemia and other nasty things that will definitely harm other animals in the HS who are euthenized.  Any animal you see at the HS has passed the "health inspection," and will eventually find a home. I am sure Allie found someone to love and take care of her.  I am still very sorry you had to give her up.  She knows you love her…they always know Jen — For more information about this service, send e-mail to:

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we think you did the right thing, too. we have similar feelings of loss and sadness and wonder if we did the right thing…we don’t think we did, but we didn’t have any other choice. we gave ourselves a birthday present for the first time ever. our present was Allie, our dog.  three months later we got fired from our job, and three months after that we were home- less.  we asked our friend to take care of our dog, until we found a place.  however, the place we found would not let us have a dog.  our dog was causing our friend’s dog to have seizures, so we had to take our dog to the Humane Society. we cannot forgive ourselves for what we did to our dog. we will never forget the look on our face when we had to place her in the kennel at the humane society. we miss her so much.  there are not many things that make us cry (or at least so that we can control the tears, but this is one that we cannot control the tears).  It has been only one year since we had to take her to the humane society. we hope she found a new home…one that could take better care of her than we did.  we are so sorry. becki

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