This makes me very sick too. I had no idea how common this was - humans are the cruelest beings to ever walk the planet. Is it any wonder we prefer the company of our animals.
Bad toilet habits can be due to many things as we know - people should be required to take a basic animal healthcare exam before being allowed to keep animals in my eyes. I hate it when people get animals just to entertain their kids too - this happened to a donkey at the sanctuary and when the kids grew up and he was old the owners didn't want him anymore so he went to sanctuary. He was at deaths door and despite treatment he was so depressed that he gave up and died. He was a lovely boy too. I hate stories like this about all animals. When Buddy first came home she pooped behind the sofa because she was too scared of her new environment to go to the litter box - so I put a box behind the sofa for her. She used that for a day before she came out of hiding. Minstrel and Buddy are both fussy as was Bramble - none like their feet dirty and try and stand on the sides of tray - so cute. I have to scoop and clean every day or scoop out twice a day and clean every other day if I'm lucky. In the last few years before we lost my dog Gemma - she became very incontinent - partly due to being overweight at one point and then she lost weight but her age meant her bladder was weaker. We tried medications but she was still incontinent and even more so after her CVA (lot of urine too as she was a big dog). We would never have dreamed about euthanasing her because of that. We put up with a smelly carpet and lots of cleaning and deodorising. Bad toileting is not the animals fault and to kill them because of it is sickening. People who can do that should not be allowed to own an animal as they don't deserve them. Michelle, Minstrel, Buddy & Angel Bramble
