Our oldest puppy is named Maddie, nicknamed Miss Maddie Gumdrops. She’s a 14-year-old Chinese-crested Powder Puff with a heart murmur and tracheal cough issues that we control with medicine. She’s also gone blind, but she is the sweetest thing in the world; she’s feisty, and still enjoys her food and hanging around her fur brothers Ian and Puppet. We monitor her health and do regular tests to ensure she’s not in any pain or suffering, and so far she’s hanging tough. While we will do what is necessary when the time comes, until then, we want her to be happy to be with us, and it seems she is.
All that is to say I cannot understand people who quickly discard animals when their quality of life is not necessarily life-threatening, but challenging in terms of time or money. A sweet, part-time shelter employee feels the same way as I do, and her intervention on behalf of a puppy with a…
