Author Topic: dumped dog (Read 1822 times)

curdog · « **on:** April 25, 2006, 02:44:58 PM »

my wife and i was coming home from town night before last and seen a pup beside the road, someone had dumped out, looks like a bmcx, we took her home feed her, took her to the vet today she has a broke leg, had it fixed, i guess she will stay hear on the yard. we named her ditch....what really upsets me is i have 30 dogs,, when we have a dog that does not cut it, we try to find it a home. why would anyone just throw out a dog that can not fend for itself?

?? just venting

Gun Runner · « **Reply #1 on:** April 25, 2006, 05:54:39 PM »

A mo. or so, my son was at one of night classes at collage and found a pup about 6 or 7 weeks old roaming around the blds. He hauled it home.
It looks to be a lot of rotty and not sure of the cross. (I wanted to name him Ace Libarace(sp) as he is the pee-est pup I have every run across.)
He wound up with the name GRRRR, because he is always growling at your feet as you walk. The old dog will put up with him to a point and then let him know whos who. He tried the male cat the other day and has a newfound respect for him now. He's going in in a couple mo's to get his plumbing altered.
As for people that dump animals, never mind I'll get carried away on that subj.

Gun Runner

Lloyd Smale · « **Reply #2 on:** April 25, 2006, 10:41:52 PM »

ex girlfreinds daugher once brought home a rotwieler pup that she found along with 4 others in a gunny sack on the side of the road. Never proved it but it sure looked like a purebread. It was the kindest mellowest dog youd ever want to have and smart as a whip. There ought to be alot stronger laws on the books to deal with +++ +++++ who are that cruel! Just once in my life id like to catch an sob doing something like that.

markc · « **Reply #3 on:** April 27, 2006, 02:41:36 AM »

poor pup. It's a shame when irresponsible people do harm to a pup like that. If they don't want puppies, then why can't they seem to have their own dogs spayed or neutered? We used to find dumped dogs frequently in our area.

rockbilly · « **Reply #4 on:** April 28, 2006, 12:37:02 PM »

:x About 15 miles southwest of town there is a road side park. This is the prefered place to dump dogs. My friend lives about a quarter mile away, dogs of all kinds show up at his place. I could throw a rock from my place to the roadside park, but I have to drive another fifteen miles to circle back around to it. We find dogs there almost everytime we go out. I have sen a lot during deer season, chasing deer or hogs. We usually shoot them because we have found if they chase the wild game, they also chase and kill cattle.

The guy that owns the property near the roadside park is about eighty years old, he was out checking his sheep and goats and found 4-5 they had killed, one with it's stomach torn open was still alive so he went back to the truck to get his gun. On the way back a pack of 8-10 dogs attack him. He had three rounds in the old model 94 and managed to kill acouple of dogs and berat the rest off until he got back to the truck.
Some of these dogs are very large, they cross with the coyotes and make a big cunning animal that will often attack a man. I picked up a couple of SKSs, one for me, one for the old man. He now has two thirty round mags, and when he gets out of the truck he armed and ready.

I have always been an animal lover, I hate to see the dogs (and cats) thrown out, and don't like to kill them, but sometimes we have to do things we don't like. I have hauled a bunch to Rescue the Animals when I can catch them. I fed one little black cocker, (it looked like a pure breed) she stayed at the roadsside park for almost two weeks waiting for the sorry creep to come back and get her. Finally, some lady caught her and took her home to be her companion. :wink:

Land_Owner · « **Reply #5 on:** April 29, 2006, 05:32:22 PM »

The bridge over the Indian River seems to be a favorite for people here to toss kittens out of 55mph(+) from autos and trucks. It is a tall bridge with two lanes in one direction without an emergency lane and a lot of water from the centerline to the shoreline. One afternoon going home I came over the top to find a kitten in agony at the passing lane roadside edge. Stupid folks either missed the toss and hit the railing or just dropped the cat in traffic and it got clipped by a passing car. I stopped at the bottom, walked back to the top against oncoming traffic (stupid me; I could have been hit), gently picked up that cat and took it to a vet for euthanasia, which I offered to pay for but was refused. Probably should have wrung its neck myself but didn't want to get into something I could not explain to law enforcement (or my wife and children) if confronted. A .22 bullet to the head would be better than the writhing twisted agony of death at the side of the road and I mean that for the folks that tossed the cat like that. I suppose there have been crueler ways that folks treat our dumb animal friends.

Land_Owner · « **Reply #6 on:** April 29, 2006, 05:41:15 PM »

Just to bring this around to the forum "Hog Hunting" a little, I walked up to the pond on my place and found an emaciated hog, which should have been 100# (+) but was just shy of 20#. It had either gotten clipped by a car crossing the highway fronting the pond or was diseased, headed to water, and when too weak to continue, it lay down to die a death of dehydration and starvation. I ended its life with a .45 LC to the head. No telling how long it had been there waiting to die but I surmise a LONG time. It was not a pretty sight alive or dead. Life and death in nature is cruel indeed.

Nixter · « **Reply #7 on:** May 03, 2006, 10:31:48 AM »

My friend and I were out shining deer one night. (by the book of course) And came across an adult female dog wandering the roadside. We picked her up so she didn't get hit by a car.

We checked the area houses for her home and got the same response from all of them. We've seen her around but she's not ours.

Shtupy as we called her (shtinky and shtupid, she smelled awful and had no clue that the road was dangerous) ended up at the Humane Animal Welfare Shelter the next day. She did get a bowl of food and warm place to sleep that night...

After cleaning up after her, it seemed she was living on sweet feed for horses. Dogs don't seem to digest that stuff too well.

She was adopted as soon as her quarantine was up.

She was kinda old but cute when cleaned up by HAWS. In retrospect, I should have kept her. But I am glad she was quickly adopted. As old as she seemed I am guessing she died with her new family. No dog should die alone at the pound.

My one experience with abandoned dogs.

Nixter

curdog · « **Reply #8 on:** May 03, 2006, 04:29:36 PM »

hey guys the dog is doing great, she has learned to run with the cast on. she needs a good home if anyone would like her, we named her ditch

qajaq59 · « **Reply #9 on:** May 04, 2006, 10:29:02 AM »

We used to live out in the farm country of western Massachusetts and every cheap SOB in the area would dump these poor dogs and cats at our driveway rather then drive to the pound in the city.
Best thing about it was I never caught one of them, because I wouldn't have like prison much.
One raggedy black mutt that I gave to my brother turned into the best pheasant dog you ever saw. We hunted over him for years. He was wacky though because he would not retrieve a bird. He would just go sit on it until you came. Even if it was still alive.

Wynn · « **Reply #10 on:** May 04, 2006, 10:42:23 AM »

My old rescued mix breed lab does that. i've had her 13 yrs now. She will find a downed dove in thick brush everytime but lays down on it and hides it, daring you to take it away from her. You should see the dirty looks I get from her when she sees them comeing and I miss. :roll:

curdog · « **Reply #11 on:** May 04, 2006, 03:59:16 PM »

well (ditch) is still doing good,if no you wants her a will try her on hogs.like i need another dog :-D :-D :-D but who knows

curdog · « **Reply #12 on:** May 16, 2006, 03:05:21 PM »

we found her a good home, she;s doing great

Syncerus · « **Reply #13 on:** May 17, 2006, 05:44:10 AM »

I'm glad that you found her a good home. It's nice to see a happy ending to a story like that.

Syncerus

curdog · « **Reply #14 on:** May 18, 2006, 03:15:00 PM »

yeah the new owner reports every day on how she;s doing.

Dee · « **Reply #15 on:** July 20, 2006, 04:48:49 PM »

I'm a retired K-9 sgt. I trained em from pups and didn't buy vendor dogs. Met more dogs I liked that officers in that 20 years. Not all the dogs made good patrol dogs but, they were still good dogs. Never met any I didn't like except for pits. Don't trust em.

curdog · « **Reply #16 on:** July 20, 2006, 04:52:23 PM »

dee, haveing a hard time keeping up tonight,lol,,,no bulldogs here

Ranger J · « **Reply #17 on:** July 21, 2006, 03:40:10 AM »

I kind of laughed at a friend of ours that actually paid for a dog! I live on the end of a country dirt road and this seems to be the place for people to dump unwanted, usually female, dogs. We at present have a collection of four and have found good homes for several more. A neighbor up the road ‘doesn’t believe’ in neutering his dogs and three of out dogs are strays from his house. The last one of our dogs, named Fluffy, is a runt brindle pit that my daughter’s boyfriend at that time’s family was going to kill, because it was a runt. When we got this pup it weighed four pounds, had a hernia, rickets and the worst case of worms that I ever saw. We wormed her, got the hernia fixed when we had the rest of her fixed and she has turned out to be the sweetest dog I have ever owned. I guess because of her early medical problems she weighs only about forty pounds and sorry to say is showing signs of hip displacia. Still she is loving, complains about nothing and doesn’t know a stranger. I guess it didn’t hurt that she was raised by a pair of half lab surrogate mothers. I too have little use for people who don’t take care of their dogs.
RJ

curdog · « **Reply #18 on:** July 24, 2006, 07:21:25 AM »

i have heard of alot of pits having that problem

Old Griz · « **Reply #19 on:** August 04, 2006, 12:02:06 AM »

We found a sick, starving German Shepherd on Christmas Eve before last. The shelter was closed, and all the folks that take in stray dogs were full up. She was really wild, and scared to death. Scars all over her. Think she may have been a fight dog, cuz she really goes ballistic when she sees another dog. Anyway, she really tore up the laundry room. Ripped both the door frame and window sill off. Didn't like the idea of being confined. Since it was Christmas Eve when we found her, there was no place for her to go, female, etc., my wife named her Mary. (Only female in the Christmas story!) Took her to the vet after Christmas, and she had heartworms. By that time my wife was in love with her, so after an $800 vet bill, we kept her. She's a wonderful dog. Calmed down of course. As sweet a dog as I have ever seen. Guards my wife when folks come over. Always stays between her and our guests. Sheds more hair than any dog I've ever seen, too. Can't understand why she isn't bald by the end of the day. When I see all those scars on her legs, the poor tail, the stitched up ears, I just can't believe anyone could treat a dog like that. Just glad she has a happy home now.

Mikey · « **Reply #20 on:** August 04, 2006, 01:55:21 AM »

curdog - you and the old griz must have hearts of gold to take in homeless pups like that. Me, I'm just an idjit with only 5 dogs now. There is a nature preserve nearby and lots of sobs dump their dogs there. The last one I picked up had been on her own for about 4 months, so the vet said, and weighed only 52 lbs. We figure she is a 1 - 1.5 yr old unneutered female shepard but she is just a sweetheart. We named her Tessa - don't know why but she responds very well to that name.

I simply cannot tolerate people who dump their dogs off like that. We have far too many coyotes around for many of those poor dogs to survive and a couple of years ago I heard a dog getting torn apart by the coytoes - that year I killed 7. I had a tough time dealing with that sound and will take as many yotes as I can to keep that from happening again.

Yes, I love my Standard Poodles. My oldest is from a breeder who has sold me 4 over the past 25 yrs. My youngest Standard is a rescue who was headed for the public shelter from a rescue facility (the owner basically threatened to send the dog out if I didn't take it. Bitch). My fiance's dog is shelter rescue; my Bouvier is a resuce and this Shepard is a 'finder'.

I have often told myself that if I ever catch anyone leaving their dog behind I will deal with them violently and leave them the way they left the dog - alone, injured and forced to survive on their own. People like that just don't deserve to live a nice, comfortable life.

I really have to hand it to all you guys who take in homeless dogs. Says more about your basic goodness than any amount of preachin'. JMHO. Mikey.

oso45-70 · « **Reply #21 on:** August 04, 2006, 08:56:27 PM »

Mickey and the whole gang here, I would like to add my two cents worth about dumping dogs or mistreating in anyway. The people who do these sort of things are Sub Human maggots. My Irish takes over when i see or hear about any abuse to animals.
It nice to see you all posting this subject, Maybe some of the folks who do this will think before they dump a poor dog to fend for its self, Makes you want to wring their stinking necks. Out of sight out of mind i guess, Thanks to all of you.......Joe.......

buffalohunter · « **Reply #22 on:** August 05, 2006, 10:16:48 AM »

I have two strays that me and my wife have adopted, I do not know why you are surprised at at someone dumping dogs off. Most people do not care about other people, why is anyone surprised at them mistreating animals.

USMC0332 · « **Reply #23 on:** August 05, 2006, 04:10:18 PM »

As a kid growing upon the farm we had many good dogs dumped at our house, and no place to send them. We would call around to neighbors and people we knew and only found a home for one of them in my lifetime. We had 2 dogs of our own and dad said that was one too many. Two dogs were very much more prone to running and killing sheep and other stuff than one. Though I liked many of these dogs we had no choice but to humanely shoot them. I love animals, especially dogs, but there was no other choice. I still won't pay what a vet wants to put a loved pet down. I take them to their happy place, the woods< and when they are not looking I send them to dog heaven. I would not want to take them to their unhappy place, the vets< to breathe their last. I just wish that someone would take me to my happy place, the woods< when my time comes rather than finish up in my unhappy place(hospital or worse the rest home). If the kids put me in the "home" I will will everything to the dog. I would rather have a shallow grave under my deerstand than a pretty stone at the vets cemetary, but my wife doesn't agree, and it will likely be the one that has to make the arrangements anyway. Not my problem.

Dusty Miller · « **Reply #24 on:** August 08, 2006, 04:19:54 PM »

There's a particularly hot and nasty place in hell reserved for people who mistreat animals in this fashion.

curdog · « **Reply #25 on:** August 08, 2006, 04:28:37 PM »

amen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!