It's a gut-wrenching decision that pet parents should never have to make—ensuring the safety of a beloved dog or cat by giving him or her up. That is, tragically, the case for many victims of domestic abuse who can no longer take care of their pets due to their harrowing circumstances.
It's exactly what happened when an unidentified woman left her 3-month-old Chihuahua puppy named Chewy in the bathroom of the McCarran Airport in Las Vegas, Nevada in early July. Source: petmd.com