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Salon
Salon
Lifestyle
Melanie McFarland

Adopting a pet shouldn't be this hard

"Come back in a couple of weeks, and we'll talk then," the woman at the animal rescue chirped. 

The short version of this story is my husband and I had been trying to adopt kittens from a local rescue. What should have been a straightforward process instead turned into a year-and-a-half-long binge of rejections, capped off by this woman refusing to even have a conversation with us.

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