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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's ridiculous.  My friend was turned down because she had never had a dog before, and because she worked out of the home. She wasn't trying to adopt a puppy and she would have been a good pet owner, and it's just life that most people have to work during the day.[/quote]

Meh, I didn't get a dog until I could afford a dog walker.  It's really not fair to leave a dog home along all day.  [/quote]

Yeah much better that they get put down at a kill shelter, right?[/quote]

It's not an either-or, but look. It's not fair to get an animal you don't take care of and then say, well, it's okay because it would have died anyway. That's terrible logic. [/quote]

PP animal welfare person - unfortunately it is a little bit either/or. We can look for perfect homes, and let more pets be euthanized, or we can look for good homes, and not let the perfect be the enemy of the good. We have to draw lines about what we think is good v not good enough - and that's art, not science. But you have to be aware that every time you make it harder to adopt, more shelter pets will be euthanized for lack of a home. That's just how it is, given our current situation.

At the same time, it's good for you to think hard about when you think you are ready for a pet. For you, it sounds like you felt you didn't have enough financial stability to do it - until you did. That's great. [/quote]

+1  Working out of the home doesn't mean you are going to be a neglectful pet owner. Most of the people I know don't have  someone home with the pet full time during the day-that's the nature of life in DC.  Some shelters are looking too hard for unicorn families, and dogs are going to get put down because of it.[/quote]

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