People who dump animals are cowards. I actually knew someone who dumped their dog. I was a kid at the time, we were a military family living on base. One of my friends had a dog, but when it came time to move, her parents didn't want to pay to ship it to their new base (we lived in Newfoundland, so going back to the states required air travel or sea travel). So they took it "to the farm", which was code for taking it out in the country and dumping it. They had a happy little story made up about how farmers love and need dogs, and would be so happy to get a free one, etc etc. For the record, Newfoundland didn't have any farms where we were, so they dumped it in the woods. My parents didn't know until after the fact, or else they would have done something about it (they did go look for it). But they had truly convinced themselves that the dog was happy and they were kind people for doing this.