People who abandon a loving pet like that should be hung drawn and quartered in my book
Jeeves, our first cocker (my little bear who I have posted about previously who died last July) was a similar case. We got her from a rescue home where she had been found tied to a lampost and abandoned - and she was then 9 years old and totally incapable of looking after herself. Bizarrely, the next week after she had been taken to the rescue home, a male cocker, much younger, was found in the same circumstances in almost the same place. The rescue home were convinced it was her son.
I simply do not understand how people can be so bloody heartless. Would they tie their kids to a lmapost and leave them to fend for themselves??? I know what I'd like to do to the person who abandonded Jeeves........