My kids would never have done that!

[Richard Crowe]

Famous last words, but, not in this case.

We received Gizmo, a year old Malti-Poo from a Riverside County shelter.  Gizmo had half of his ear amputated because some kids stretched a rubber band around this poor dog's ear.  My kids would never have done that!  And I know they wouldn't have done such a thing...

Did I ever tell them, "don't place a rubber band around a dog's ear?"  Of course not!  What I did teach them was a love and respect for all animals and pets. Both the kids and the parents should share equal blame in the case of poor Gizmo.  

[Joanna, Zoe & Bender]

this is so sad!  I don't understand kids that are cruel to animals…why they don't understand that animals are living/breathing beings.