Here’s a few quotes from your post (emphasis added):
I ran into a quite unhealthy looking dog who was riddled with ticks. We spent half an hour taking the ticks out and by the time we were done with him, we knew we wouldn’t let him lie there....
We brought him there [to a shelter] right away, leaving him in a pen <...> . When we went away, it was with a bad feeling.
When we went back the next day, we were told that the dog had escaped. <...> We felt devastated
By now we had bonded with this dog <...> and mourned for the rest of the day.
A question, riffing off the title:
Several people in the same scenario would not have worried about letting that dog lie there, would not have had a bad feeling about leaving a dog in a shelter and realising that the dog wasn’t happy there, would not have felt devastated about this, and would not have mourned the outcome...
Here’s a few quotes from your post (emphasis added):
A question, riffing off the title:
Several people in the same scenario would not have worried about letting that dog lie there, would not have had a bad feeling about leaving a dog in a shelter and realising that the dog wasn’t happy there, would not have felt devastated about this, and would not have mourned the outcome...
… do those people need help?