Dogs left behind at vacation time

[Catherine]

Quote:I am tempted to say I would like to put those perpetrators in garden sheds with (presumably) one bowl of dry food and one bowl of water for two weeks, and not the slightest bit of hope- (you cannot tell a dog "I'll be back in two weeks") -or company, and see how they fared....

And somehow I don't even feel ashamed of having that thought!

It sounds reasonable to me.

Something needs to be done to get the message across that this is wrong.
How can there be 9 thousand families that would do this. I wonder how often no one comes to the rescue and the pets are dead when the owners get home. People who would leave a pet probably wouldn't be too upset when they get home and find the pet dead.

This is like the problem of people moving and leaving the pets behind. Clearly the pets are seen as disposable. That shows a lack of bonding with the pets. It is scary to think that there are so many people out there who don't know how to bond with another creature.