[ D’Artagnan lifts his eyebrows. ]

Not if they’re put down when they don’t find a home.

[ Not that he thinks that’s what happens here, but the idea of unwanted animals doesn’t give him a lot of hope. It’s part of why he wants to take one. ]

I don’t understand how so many are left. People are careless. Or they don’t know how to look after what they raise. We would have given puppies to surrounding farms, they’d not have gone to waste. Here they’re just thrown out, like everything else in this modern world.