Animal dumping

[GoDawgs]

What's known as red mange in some areas is actually a venereal disease that has nothing to do with mites..it takes several treatments from a vet to cure it.

The vet saw the mites under the microscope.

[worth1]

What's known as red mange in some areas is actually a venereal disease that has nothing to do with mites..it takes several treatments from a vet to cure it.

The vet saw the mites under the microscope.

No doubt.
My mom bought a registered doberman puppy that had the venereal disease.
Lots of treatments later he got over it.
Not for sure what it was, I was just out of the 7th grade.
On they way home we discussed what to name him and I came up with Dober so Dober it was.
We drove all the way to the western border of Oklahoma and back to the Eastern border of Oklahoma in one day to get him.
From the time we got him from then on he wouldn't let anyone pet him but my Mom my Dad and myself.
He was a wee little thing that stayed in my lap all the way home.
The damned dog used to chase me down and take my snow hat off and run away.
Then he would slobber in my popcorn so I would give it to him.
He would make his rounds at night checking on everyone.
He was barking and charging at a girl friend I had known for years.
She ran at him barking back and he ran off with his tail between his legs.
They were buddies after that.
No cat problems at our house they all got along.

I spent a lot of time with my pet baby Brahman bull I was bottle feeding.
He grew up to be a gentle giant.
I've had just about every kind of pet animal you could imagine.

[TomatoNut95]

I don't have time, money, space or patience for dogs either which is why I never take anything in. Anything that comes up has been done something with the same day. I don't get attached to animals like my mother can. She's very squishy when it comes to animals; I guess I'm more like my grandmother who always said to completely ignore an abandoned animal in hopes that it will move on. However, on this road, there isn't anywhere to move on to. Houses are very scarce down one road, lots of dogs live down another and they may attack it, and the other portion offers no assistance to dogs.

[worth1]

There's an old joke that probably isn't PC today but it's the complete truth.
You can lock your spouse and your dog up in the trunk of your car.
When you come back and let them out your spouse will be ready to kill you but your dog will be glad to see you.

If a person doesn't want a dog or pet they don't need one nor should they have one.
The same goes for people.
Many people get married for all the wrong reasons and none of the right ones.
People asked how my wife and I stayed together for so long because we would get into it and cuss each other out at times.
They would say we never talked to each other like that.
Yeah and you've been divorced how many times now?
We were together for 34 years before she passed.
We got married after knowing each other for a couple of months and we didn't invite anyone.
We loved each other and we both loved all creatures great and small.
We never cheated on each other either.
The moral of the story is if you don't want something then don't get it.
Dumping an animal is like dumping a spouse.

[TomatoNut95]

Which is one of the many reasons I'll probably never marry; I'm too much of an introvert.

Several years ago my uncle and family moved into the house next door and during the process, someone dumped 3 dogs. One looked like a pug but wasn't full blooded. His precious princess daughter wanted that dog and kept calling 'pug'. My uncle disposed of the other 2 dogs by means I didn't ask.
Years before that they had a dumped dog that they turned around and dumped elsewhere. Before that was a blue heeler puppy that my great uncle took in and let suffer during its old age.
A couple of years ago, someone dumped a full blooded female boxer that my mother took in until she could rehome. Mom and her husband put up with it for a week before someone came to pick it up. I assumed the boxer was dumped because it was getting elderly. Or perhaps it's elderly owner died and family members went and dumped it rather than having to care for it during funeral commotion, who knows.
My great aunt took in a dumped kitten a few years ago. She still has it but it's not treated very well though.

[worth1]

We had a Collie show up on our place and it was pretty beat up.
We nursed it back to health.
Some old man came by and said it was his and took it.
He tied the dog to the bumper of his car and drug it down the gravel road..a few days later the dog showed back up with all the hair rubbed off and covered in scabs.
The old man showed back up to get his dog.
May Dad came out and told the old man he would beat the hell out of him and drag him down the road.
I can guarantee my dad could and would have done it.
The old man left, the dog stayed and we never saw that old man again.
We named the dog Pal and he lived a good life on the farm with our cattle and the rest of the animals.
He was a kind and goodly dog that never hurt anything.

[TomatoNut95]

A lot of old people abuse their dogs because they're too old to be active enough to do the right thing. My great grandparents let their Dachshund suffer in her old age. She had cataracts, very long claws and didn't give her much attention.
My great uncle (who isn't very elderly, just mean) also abused his blue heeler in her old age because she was in so much pain she cried sometimes and had a very bad limp. She went like that for too long until she finally and thankfully passed.
Even my grandmother let her chocolate lab suffer with a cancerous growth on his jaw for too long before family helped her do the right thing of having him put down by a vet. Her previous lab was killed by a snake. She's had lots of dogs through her life but is now too old for one.

[TomatoNut95]

Have not seen the pitt bull mother or anymore puppies so a passerby or a house must have taken her/them in. Yesterday I drove down the road she was last seen on and didn't see anything. Good thing they're finally gone, I don't like the thought of a pitt bull roaming around.

[Stitchingmom]

I'm crying just reading this thread. Thankfully we have a very active shelter in my small town, which has the wholehearted support of the entire town. The biggest problem we have here is constant lost dogs. It infuriates me, because we have predators and bad weather. We had a cougar in the middle of one of our residential streets eating a deer a couple years ago. I would love to foster, but we have three cats that we took in who were strays. The pregnant mama showed up at my son's repair job, and he took care of them there until they were a bit older. When my daddy died, my husband and son knew that the cats would cheer me up. We love them dearly, but they are still timid after five years. I am hoping that a tiny unintimidating puppy will show up. We plan to try fostering mamas with kittens soon.

If I could I would take in every suffering baby/child/animal in the entire world. I guess I'm a bleeding heart.