(Steps up on soapbox) Living in the country as I do, I've had so many cats and dogs "dropped" on me, I've lost count. I really couldn't tell you how many animals I've placed with friends and family or taken to the animal shelter (we can't take care of them all). Several, including the last one, I've taken to the veterinarian where the animals turned out to be so ill or injured they had to be put to sleep. I've seen so many others dropped in the middle of nowhere where they are killed by cars, or injured by other territorial pets. Why is it so many people are so ignorant? How can you not know that unwanted pets can be taken to animal shelters, (some of which are privately owned and do not euthanize) which costs nothing? Maybe they think you have to pay to leave animals there. And people should have pets neutered unless they are professional breeders. (Steps down from soapbox)

This is not my "second childhood". I'm not finished with the first one yet.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

"I'd like to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather....not screaming in terror like the passengers on his bus." - Jack Handy