If you adopt a dog, make sure that you’re ready for that commitment to keep it. In Fido’s mind, after all, you’ve just declared him to be family. And if you break that family up, he’s going to be heart broken.
Take the case of Beuller, a big – my toddler grandkid would say “gi-ant!” — gentle black retriever mix at the Craven-Pamlico Animal Shelter.
Surrendered in mid-April, he still seems almost afraid to move. When you watch him walk, he does so with his belly and his snout scraping the ground, and he looks at the world around him with huge, mournful eyes. He’s wondering what he ever did to deserve this.