My love for the New York Post is well-documented. Yesterday, my favorite tabloid included a story that made my blood boil. It turns out that in large numbers, human beings all around these United States are turning into shelters the now-adult dogs (and to a lesser extent cats) they adopted and/or purchased as puppies at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic when the world shut down, when "working from home" became the norm, and when people starved for some sort of connection found it in a four-legged friend.
With the United States slowly but surely on a "return to normal" trajectory and people getting ready to resume "working from work" AND OF COURSE people getting ready for summer vacations and quality leisure time, the pooches welcomed into countless homes this time last year are no longer welcome. If you are such a person, then allow me to be direct. You are an asshole. You were never worthy of the dog whose life you co-opted in a pathetic attempt to add some meaning and some substance to your own.
And sadly, if you are one of the feckless cowards abandoning your canine companion because he or she no longer fits your lifestyle, then you too are exactly what you seem. Unfortunately for the dog who believed in your bullshit, you always have been.
-AK
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