Originally posted by wolf_Q
. I'm sorry for being so heartless as to "buy" a dog.

I don't think anyone is heartless for 'buying' a dog. IMHO, you have saved that dog from ending up in a shelter or worse.
I know that with Keegan and her attitude and destructive behaivor etc, not everyone would have put up with it, and if I didn't have her, someone else MIGHT have taken her to the shelter or tied her up in the back yard.
I felt guilty at first for taking her b/c she wasn't a rescue, but ALY told me not to feel guilty b/c I could be saving her from ending up in the shelter or being tied up in the back yard. And I rescued Shaianne and Kylie from bad situations.
IMHO, what would be heartless is (not to mention stupid, assinine, cruel etc) is the people that pay out the ying yang for dogs and then tie them up outside.
My parents neighbors had a high dollar labrador retriever that they let run loose and my mom (who isn't overly fond of animals but can't stand to see them in pain) hit and killed it with her car b/c it ran out in front of her. She called them and told them and was sobbing and almost hysterical. She said "I am so sorry I hit your dog and I killed it" and you know what these assinine people said ? "OH gee, that dog was worth $400 we were going to breed it" which made her cry harder and their assinine kid said to a friend of his and it got back to me said " I wish it would have totalled their car!"
Like they even cared about the dog they were mad b/c they were out the money.
But monetary value aside, the love that those of us that DO love our animals, it can't be bought.