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This is more of a rant than anything. I just don't understand people's thinking sometimes.

Last night I was in the driveway putting brakes on my daughter's car when this pup comes running up and jumps in my lap. Then another... and another... and another. 5 pups in all and mama with her boobs hanging down. They were obviously dropped off on our road because they looked pretty rough and smelled bad, and they don't belong to any of our neighbors. We live a mile down a gravel road, out in the country, and people drop off their animals on a regular basis. What are they thinking? Everyone that lives in the counrtry has all sorts of space and resources to take in countless animals? Do they think their pup will be taken in by Ma and Pa Brown's Happy Puppy Farm? I can tell you for a fact that more than likely their beloved pet will become coyote food. We've got packs of them that you can hear at night, not to mention foxes, owls, hawks etc. Fluffy will become lunch in no time. Why don't these people just take their pet to the Humane Society where there might be a chance that they will be adopted. Hell, taking them to the local dump and shooting them in the head would be more humane than being riped apart by 4 or 5 coyotes.

We've taken a couple cats to the pound on different occasions because they wouldn't leave our garage, and one of them bite my daughter. We had a neighbor down the road 'adopt' a lab pup that someone left. Also had the people around the corner take a big goofy coonhound that stayed with us for a few days. All the other animals just kind of vanished. There was even a monkey, last year, that ran across the road in front of my son and my wife on different occasions. I think they were both on acid, but they swear it was a monkey.

I'm not sure what it is about our road, but there are WAY too many pets dropped off that end up at our house. What are these people thinking? Or are they just that dang lazy?

Mark
 
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My idea is to Hang People who abandoned Pet's from the Overpasses and Bridges with a sign around their neck - "Guilty of Pet Abandoning" !
It really amazes that people spend so much money on other things through life - but they wont anti up the bucks to have their pets fixed and vaccinated. :sad:

My daughter just brought home a kitten about 15 weeks old last week that was dumped out. We really did not want another pet but we also do not have the Heart to put it back out on the streets.
 
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Mark - it's people's ignorance, many think it will cost them to leave their unwanted pets at the humane society. Others realize the pets will be euthanized after a few days at the HS and think that turning them loose in the country, woods or down by the river will give them a second chance at life. After all they are animals and they can fend for themselves once back in the wild. They have no concept that domesticated animals very rarely can survive on their own...

My wife and I have been dog lovers all our lives, we have not had a dog as a pet for about 7 years ever since out sheep dog passed on. My daughter asks for a puppy about every 3-5 months and our friends think I'm mean for not getting her a puppy. Each time I am asked about getting a puppy I tell my daughter it's up to her. All she has to do is go get the neighbors dog and take it for a walk and bring back a plastic bag with the dogs business in it. The only rule is she can't use a shovel or rake etc, just the plastic bag. My point is if she isn't willing to turn the bag inside out over her hand and pick up the poop I don't feel she's ready to take care of a dog.

If more people were honest with themselves they would not take on the responsibility of a pet and you would not be having them dumped in your country driveway...
 
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Good points Dennis. I have ended up with abandoned animals in the past and except for one, took them to the humane society or other homeless pet place. My kids would just love a dog/cat and to be honest, I want another shepard. My problem (blessing) is I have developed allergies involving just about everything that grows and walks on four legs. This is my #1 reason for no pets. #2 is what Dennis described. I know, I just know I would be the person saddled with the care of the pet. I spent many years cleaning up after my old pets (land mines) and i don't relish the thought of doing it again. Ricochet has a pet guinea pig (Maggie) and this is just fine with me. SHE is taking care of Maggie whether she likes it or not. LB enjoys the pig as well and shares (on occasion) in the care. This is it for our household. As for abandoned pets, people should be placed in a homeless situation for about a week. Just take them into the country and dump them. They can see how they survive without a Wendy's or UDF.
 
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We have a problem with cats that have gone feril. They crap everywhere, scream in the night and attack our cat when they corner her. Sometimes, they even take a crap right on our porch and one time, on the hood of my truck!
Well of course you know, that meant war.....

So I bought a animal trap from the hardware store, put some tuna in it and caught about 3 cats. (I also caught ours about 3 times too)
But the ones I caught were quite obviously feril because as I approached they were howling like a tornado.
I took them to the pound and the pound also said they couldn't handle them.
Two cats allowed to roam that are not spade or neutered, can turn into 1500 feril cats in a very short time.

Another problem is the boyz. They want pit bulls because it makes them more of a man or something I dunno. They refuse to neuter the dog. Maybe they hope to make money by breeding it or maybe it goes right back to this BS machismo thing I don't know but when we went to the pound looking to get a dog, 99% of them were pit bulls.

Our neighbor next door, thinks its right to let his dogs roam the back yard all day with nothing to do while he's at work. So what they do is bark. All day. We trained him to leave them in at night, I pounded on his door at about 3AM when his dogs barked. All night.
We have a dog now, we crate trained her. She sleeps next to our bed at night and when we are away at work, she is in the crate. Crate training speaks directly to their instincts. It also is advisable to excersise the dog. We take her to the dog park 4 times a week. There she is free to run around with a bunch of dogs, which she does until we get too far away and then she catches up to us.
All those dogs meeting each other is pretty funny sometimes.
I am about at my wits end with our neighbor. He lets those dogs bark. All day.
 
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It is appalling the lack of respect for life. My 12 year old daughter volunteers at our local no-kill shelter 'The Haven' one day a week. Some of the stories are chilling, I wish we could bring them all home.


As for the neighbor and his barking pack- i wish i had a good answer, the dogs are probably as frustrated as you are with the neglect.

Did you ever notice that good people take good care of thier pets?:hurray:

And the rest - well we have too many of those losers down here.

Matt
 
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Mark

The mother looked like an Australian shepard mix, or whatever those dogs are that you see rounding up sheep. She was a fairly large dog. The pups looked like they were mixed with a lab. They had huge feet and the funny bump on the top of their heads. They were cute as hell... till they started playing tug-o-war with my rags and running off with my screwdriver.

They were all still laying in my front yard when I went to bed last night. This morning when I left for work there was a bunch of barking down around the corner at the next house, so I guess they moved on... for now. We have a small pond that they can drink out of, and cool off in. That's probably also why they always seem to end up at our house.

My son has a guinea pig also. Only animal I've ever seen that can eat 5 times it's body weight on a daily basis.

Mark
 
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If an owner doesn't want a dog, all they have to do is to call a rescue, any breed, and they will take the dog(s) and no questions asked. We do it for newborn children at your local ER & hospital, they do it for dogs also.

Mark, if you gave the 'family' a home, better to give to rescue, then you could make a tax deduction toward the rescue of the family. After the pups are given their new forever home, its better if the mother is there so the next puppy owner can see, you can request the mother back and I would wager, she would be your friend for life. Dogs do remember.

The reason I suggest a rescue is because their vet, who is local, gives his/her time, neuter/spay, & meds as a tax deduction, and your contribution to the rescue is tax deduction also.

You know your household, your decision, I respect it.
 
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We lived WAY OUT in the boonies 10 years. 25 miles from a town that does not have a Wendy's. Dawgs was not a problem because coyotes and vultures get the puppy dawg type very quick. The ones that survived occasionally were cool dawgs. That's how I got the Hoochie Koochie Poochie:D. I pulled in at 10 one night and there he sat in the middle of my yard. I was calling him Hooch before I took 2 steps. He was a character. You give this dude a golf ball and he was good for HOURS of self amusement. He was quite a dog, absolutely carefree. He hung out with us about 3 months and then took a vacation for 2 weeks. When he came back he stayed about 6 months.

Cat dumping is what is wrong in my opinion. Cats are killer enough they can survive in the wild. But they kill quail and songbirds, and they are not a part of the natural order. I shot every one I ever saw that I could lay a bead on. That's what the people that dumped them intended, they just didn't have the guts to do it or admit it to themselves.
 
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Looks like the people down the road about a half mile took them in. The guy was out in his yard with the mother dog when I came home last night. They have goats and a few other critters. They've also got a couple sheds and a pole barn, so hopefully the dogs found a good home afterall. Looks like a happy ending this time.

The guy that used to live there had the pole barn full of junk 2nd. gens. He was my son's 'parts supplier' for a while there. :)

Mark
 
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77wolf10.85 said:
Cat dumping is what is wrong in my opinion. Cats are killer enough they can survive in the wild. But they kill quail and songbirds, and they are not a part of the natural order. I shot every one I ever saw that I could lay a bead on. That's what the people that dumped them intended, they just didn't have the guts to do it or admit it to themselves.
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They also waste the garter snake and frog and lizard populous. They aren't like most animals. They kill for amusement and not for subsistence. So garter snakes are rare around here anymore when at one time of my life, I constantly found them.

Out in the rural wild, the cats are less successful because coyote's have their number. Coyote's love the cats as snacks and can get them very easily. In the urban areas, cats have more places to hide and there are less coyotes.
Feril cats are rampant in my area and there should be an open season on them but there are too many cat lovers, no disrespect to them intended at all, that would raise quite a fuss.
I am a varmint hunter and have hunted small ground squirrels and other tunneling rodents because their tunnels are bad for farmers.
I rarely see domestic cats out in the rural areas.

But I totally agree, they are bad for the ecology no matter how you stack it.

I saw once a wild life show that had this young 20 year old reporter out with these aborigine women in the Aussie outback. It was so bizzare. These ladies were pretty rotund, wore dresses and seemed about mid-fifties. They shuffled about preparing their camp.
Then they took to hunting. They had sticks to hunt with, or clubs rather. They would relay run and hunt down cats. Feril house cats. There isn't a significant predator for them so they've taken over out there. These ladies ran frighteningly fast for older fat women. They would run after the cats and team relay on them. The cats were only good for about 300 yards or so of sprinting. Then they just didn't run and sat there, panting and hissing. The ladies came up and clubbed the cats and put them into a bag and started out again for more.
Once they had a number of cats in their bag, they built a fire. They put the cats on the fire, skin, fur, head, tail and all. No gutting no preparing they just cooked it as is.
This was all being watched by the appalled reporter.
Once the cats cooked for a bit, they were charred black and the fur melted to a shell like texture, they broke them open and it looked like white meat. The reporter even tried some.
It was like something out of the Far Side comic strip.
 
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"Once the cats cooked for a bit, they were charred black and the fur melted to a shell like texture, they broke them open and it looked like white meat."

Guess those were the rare King Crab Cats of the Great Barrier Reef. ;) Thats some funny stuff.

I was pretty happy about that guy down the road taking them in too Everett. Made my day.

Mark
 
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