Yet another dog-owner rant

So this gal calls me last Friday afternoon. I've taken the afternoon off, initially to go to Stitches West with Dharma, but then she had to get ready for a last-minute trip to see/support her mom. So I decided to just sit at home and knit my Knitting Olympics socks.

So of course the phone rang... a lot. This one call was especially irking, as the gal kept changing her story. It was her dog; it wasn't her dog. It was her grandmother's dog; but it was where she lived. Well, she lived with her grandmother, but... blah blah blah. Finally, it came out that the damned dog is like 2 years old, and--ta-dah!--not neutered, and got out and was picked up by the pound. She "can't afford" to get the dog out of the pound and pay for the required neutering, so she basically was calling for a handout from Lab Rescue to pay for the neutering. Um, what about clinics? What about getting it done at 6 months when you should have? What about personal responsibility?

Honestly, this one steamed me up almost as much as the family who had the dog from 6 weeks old and now, at 8 years, couldn't keep her because they were moving to L.A. Where no one has dogs, I guess. Freaking LAME.

This is why rescue volunteers burn out.