# A New Foster Dog **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-foster-dog/621716 **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **Created:** [May 12, 2012, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-foster-dog/621716 "2012-05-12T19:07:52Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 8
### Author: ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human) #### Post date: [May 12, 2012, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-foster-dog/621716/8 "2012-05-12T22:04:59Z")
> [@PapSett](#): > > I just know if it was MY elderly little dog lost out on the street somewhere, I would be out moving heaven and earth to find her. No one has even called Animal Control to see if she had been picked up. What in the name of all that’s holy is WRONG with people??? > > She looks like a Macee to me. 🙂 We don’t actually _care_ about “your little dog, too”, maybe? I _did_ move “heaven and earth” when my “Puddin’ (a mere cat)” was lost. But I didn’t expect anyone else to care. You do. Why? I had a senile cat. I _never_ thought they got senile, but when he did, I informed his vet. When it became necessary, I had the vet come out and whack him. My vet cried as much as I did, but he got whacked (I’ve got a good vet) anyway. I whacked one with a shotgun, when it needed to be done, and pulling the trigger was the hardest thing I’ve _ever_ done. But I did it. And cried afterward. I’m not inclined to cry when _you_ encounter that situation. You are not a “speshul snowflake”, despite what you may believe. They get old, they die. They get lost, they die. It happens. Get over it. Posting about it on a message board like this is useless, in terms of actually finding them. It’s only useful in getting {{{hugs}}}, which I’m not inclined to give. If you wanted {{hugs}}, you maybe came to the _wrong_ message board. [/end rant] --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-foster-dog/621716)._