OK, Now that I have had a good cry, I can write. This is just so, so sad!! Poor Mickey!!! What a mean and callous attitude for this family to take. I do not know what I would have done had I been there. I suspect I would have gone ballistic on them.
I am just thankful that the shelter is no-kill and that Mickey has you and others to love him while he is there. So sad though.

PS Richard - you are normally such a stinker and I was on the verge of asking you for a serious and sensitive post. This one gave me my pause. No more RICHARD!!!! posts. (at least for awhile)