Entitled family throws away their puppy and says it's fine because he's just a dog.

So, this happened seven years ago.

I used to volunteer at an animal shelter when I was in high school.

Where I'm from, shelters overflow and the adoption coordinators take in and give away dogs with just a signature,

no questions asked. And just to add, I love dogs more than life itself. This is especially

why this story still makes me rage. Scotty was a big black lab, a seven-year-old gentle giant.

All he'd ever want from anyone would be a few pets, maybe a belly

rub. I met him, the best dog I ever knew, in the worst circumstance possible. He was being abandoned

by his family. Enter the worst people I've ever met. The mom, aged 40, almost tearfully claimed

that there was no way they could keep Scotty anymore.

Her fiancé, in his late 40s, had just gotten a job in Australia and the family had to relocate.

They had no financial means to take the dog.

I was just a volunteer, so I saw as the shelter manager sighed as she processed him into the shelter.

The dog had no idea what was happening to him. He just wagged his tail. The entitled family

dropped him inside and, suspiciously, without a tearful goodbye, left him at the door. Now, the shelters

in my country are not like those you have in the West. They're basically a free-for-all,

a big area in which dogs are just tied. Some of them roam loose. It's an absolute hell, so we try to love the dogs

enough to make up for the lack of infrastructure. Now, back to Scotty. It's been two days,

and he wouldn't budge from the spot that his, quote, family had left him. He'd hear footsteps and

wag his tail just to be disappointed. He wouldn't eat. He was the saddest dog I'd ever seen.

I'd sit next to him and he'd just put his head on my lap and sigh. I couldn't bear it. I took him

home. It took him two weeks to become happy from depressed. He also had a ton of medical issues.

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