Some people don't leave abusive relationships because they don't want to leave their pets behind. Shelters tend not to take pets, so if you don't have the resources to hit the ground running straight out of the abusive relationship, there isn't really anywhere for the pets to go.
Solution: temporary foster homes for the pets. People volunteer to take in a pet that belongs to someone who's in a shelter. It would be organized through the shelter, so all the person fleeing the abusive relationship would have to do is show up at the shelter with the pet, then they sleep at the shelter and their pet sleeps at a safe house somewhere.
The pet would have to live in a different neighbourhood from where its human was fleeing, so the abuser doesn't run into the foster human walking down the street with their dog or something, and for the same reason they might have to keep out of major dog parks. The pet and its human could get time to visit each other, it's just that the human has to spend the night at the shelter and the pet has to spend the night at the foster home. In fact, this could even work for households that normally aren't good candidates to foster a pet because they're away all day, because the pet's own human would probably be happy to come in and do midday walkies.
So the pet gets a safe place to stay, its human can flee the abusive situation, and households that might not normally be able to foster a pet can do so with the assistance of the pet's own human. Win-win-win.
2 comments:
This is best idea you've ever had, and you've had some doozies.
I came by to share some puppyness with you, and now it's even kind of on-topic.
beyond cuteand
beyond cuter
OMG.
A new rule of cuteness needs to be that when there's a big dog and a little dog together, the total cuteness is far more than the sum of the doggies' individual cuteness.
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