You can never count on people to take care of something precious. It's human nature. People even abuse their own children. As long as it's legal to have pets, pets are going to be neglected and dumped. Sometimes I consider officially changing membership to a different species...
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Peter: It's OK, I'll handle it. I read a book about something like this.
Brian: Are you sure it was a book? Are you sure it wasn't NOTHING?