Reply #2: Yep

[iamjoy]

When some one adopts an animal, it is a responsibility, just like having kids. I'm not a fool, or a fanatical animal rights activist it just angers me when people seem to have so little conscience about getting rid of their pets when they become inconvenient.

I can personally attest to animals bonding with people. When I was a teenager we had a cat. First she was attached to my older sister, when my older sister moved away the cat latched on to me. When I moved out I figured she would be fine with my Mom and Step-Dad since that was the home where she was already anyway. Well the cat just went nuts. She walked around the house sniffing and crying all the time, would go into what had been my room and just wail. My parents made me come get her. My roommates weren't thrilled, but she was so shy she never went near them anyway and I vacuumed extra so there wouldn't be an issue with cat hair. The cat was more neurotic than most, but still, animals do get attached to their people....