2 Rants 1 Post

The first is work related: I am a payroll service rep and I get official and legal documents faxed to me all day long and I can't for the life of me understand why 3/4 of the time peopel write illegibley on these things. No I can not pay you unless I have a fully completed legible I9! The government has said so and I like my job and refuse to lose it over you now fill the form out RIGHT and so that I can read it!

Ok better now rant #2 and I know some of you will feel the same way I do. I LOVE craigslist one of my absolute favorite websites, who doesn't but I have a problem as of late if you look under community and pets there are heap loads of people SELLING thier family pets. They got the dog 6 months or a year ago and figured out they can't take care of it so they are listing them as "rehoming" with a fee of 200 dollars or more??!!! I get it if you moved or have to move and can't keep the pet or due to an illness or allergy fine but don't sell your family pet check out the people you want to rehome it to, go to thier house and check out how they live, do they have pets if so are they licensed and do they have vet paperwork on thier animal chances are if they take care of thier pet they will take care of yours if they are willing to take it into their home. Anyone can come up with a couple hundred bucks if they want to are you really making sure that your pet goes to a good home if you take money for it ummmm NO! all you are doing is profitting off an animal you originally took into your home and said you would be resposible for. And the excuse that rescue shelters charge isn't ok to use they take these dogs in and give them the full vet treatment and spay or neuter them they ussually are a non profit business and have to pay the people who are working thier yes you probably took your dog to the vet but it was your dog and you are supposed to take care of your animal now you have decided you can't and want someone not only to open thier home to your animal and make it thiers but you want them to pay you, I have seen some charge upward of 500 or more that is not right. Don't get me wrong there are legit reasons to have to rehome the family pet and craigslist is a good resorce if you use it properly. We took in our big dog through this but I insisted on going to the house with our existing dog to make sure they got along, also to see where the dog was coming from and to understand why the family needed to find him a new home. I found out that he was well taken care of but because they had two bigger dogs he became timid and it wasn't good for him since we have gotten him he has come out of hi shell and he is a wonderful dog. And I am grateful for him I am always looking on petfinder (that is were we got sneakers) and craigslist because if it were up to me I would take all the animals in the world in of course it's not all up to me but I would never sell my pets there is a difference between selling and rehoming do a little research chances are your pet will be better off if you do.