As someone who works with animals, this floors me every time

As someone working as a veterinary assistent this breaks my heart. How often we get dogs, cats or rabbits that are very ill and need medicines but the owners are not capable of paying those medicine and decide to put the animal down instead. And they still have the guts to show up a couple months later with an just bought animal.

I live in an area that used to be farm land. For a long time we had a problem with people just dropping animals off and leaving them in fields around our house. we would end up taking care of them for a bit and either finding them a home or take them to the humane society. Although it stopped once more people built in the area and we got a real road put in. And after we started collecting people's license plates and turning them over to the police when we could catch them.

I got 2 cats of the internet, website where people sell or give away stuff. these 2 cats, sisters, needed to go because their owner was pregnant, had to move back in with her mom bla bla...long story short, 2 weeks later I had 5 cats, 2 weeks after that, I had 11, their previous owners had failed to mention both kitties were pregnant. 2 kittens went to my parents, I managed to give 3 away n was so heartbroken after that I decided to keep the rest. 8 months later I had to put one, Fred, to sleep :((. a week after that a neighbor told me there was a kitty sitting on the corner for almost a week. I had heard meowing but thought it was one of mine. went to take a look, picked him up n took him in. this kitty, Mr Stinkert, was covered in fleas and ticks, dehydrated and very! skinny. I'm guessing it was a case of *vacation dump* as I live right at the edge of a city and at the entrance to a forest. I am not religious/spiritual or anything, but I like to think Fred showed him the way :)

I had to put my pet down today