What is wrong with people?

Many, many rescue groups use every available means possible to bring their mission to the public's attention. Especially smaller and less known groups who work on a shoestring budget and are trying to place animals in homes so they are not euthanized for space. The unfortunate aspect of this falls on the smaller rescues. Smaller rescues have limited space and limited budgets. They save as many animals as humanly possible but are limited on the number they can take in. If people are not adopting the animals they have, they quickly become full with no room at the inn. When animal owners find the information on a rescue who does not euthanize or a true no-kill facility, the calls begin coming in. "We have a 14 year old dog and are divorcing. Neither one of us can take the dog so you must." Are you kidding me? You want a rescue to take a 14 year old dog because you are divorcing? The people then get angry because you have no room and tell them it could be 6 months or more before you have space. You offer to list the dog, tell everyone about the dog, and everything else rescues do when they run out of room and the people who are giving up their companion get mad at you. I understand having problems. I also understand feeling overwhelmed by the circumstances in your life but all the animal wants to do is stay with you. As a person who divorced, got custody of two Rottweilers, and moved from Manatee County to Sarasota County, never, not one time did I entertain the thought of giving up my dogs. They had to be boarded at the vet's office for almost two weeks before I got moved in my house in Sarasota, but they stayed with me. So if the smaller rescues don't promote themselves it is not because they don't want people to visit them. It is because they don't want to be inundated with animals from humans who are in essence, throwing their pets away. When you adopt a pet, make it for life.