People dumping puppies

[mdmdogs3]

some "nice" person apparently felt that 2 approx 8 week old puppies could survive on their own near our chicken houses
well on Saturday, I found them obviously a couple of days later as they were terrified, skin and bones and very dehydrated
Today I went to town and lied about finding the puppies within the city limits so that the animal shelter would take them and hopefully find them homes -
the pup that showed up in August has a name and a new collar so obviously she is staying but couldn't keep 2 more (even though they were adorable as all 8 week old puppies are)

Personally I'd love to find the "human" that did this and see if they can survive in similar conditions

thanks for listening to me vent!

 

[Crowderfarms]

Happens out here a lot.Puppies and Kittens. I've never understood it, as a couple times we've even seen people dump old Dogs, and expect them to be taken in by us Country folks.Sometimes the Dogs have even ended up running Cattle, and we all know what fate that one meets.

 

[dun]

At the old place we were the only house for a couple of miles in each direction. We had an average of 8-10 dogs and pups a year dropped off. The dairy gets a couple of cats/kittens a month dropped off. I sometimes think that a bullet would be the best solution. But I was never able to catch people doing it so I could give them one.

dun

 

[IluvABbeef]

I had a friend tell me that she found a box full of pure bred Dalmation puppies dumped by the side of the road. She knew who the breeder was, because he was the only Dalmation breeder in the area that she lived in. I think she called him about them, but apparently he said that he didn't want them, probably because they were "unfit" according to his purebred terms. There were 8 puppies, only a week old, and they were just skin and bone, with only a little bit water in a dish and no food to give them. She took them to the animal shelter that was close by, but picked one and fed the pup up until it was well again. She still has that dog, and she was lucky that she knew how to bring that pup back to life, otherwise it would've been the end. As for the other 7, I'm pretty sure that they were taken care of...

i know of another case with a kitten that mom told me about. This kitten must've been dropped off at the side of the road, probably because it would've gotten to the age that it was hurting the kids and tearing up the furniture and it wasn't cute anymore so it was dropped off by the road with the thought that it would "know" to make it's way to the vet clinic that was nearby. That never happened. Instead it made it's way to the road where it got run over by a vehicle.

It's so sad, many of the feral cats that run loose around our area or probably those that have been dropped off when they weren't so cute anymore.

I rarely hear anything about dogs being dropped off at the side of the road, but cats, yeah it's a common thing.

 

[r and s peckman]

Remember the three S's Dun.

 

[dun]

Remember the three S's Dun.

But after I shoot them how do I bury their vehicle? Hard enough digging a hole for a persons body but a car or truck.....

dun

 

[dj]

You could "drop" the vehicle off in east St. Louis. Those urban folks will take care of it for you.

 

[curtis]

We get pups, cats, an old dogs on a regular basis.

 

[Gate Opener]

We also get dogs and cats. Several years ago a cat was dumped across the road where there is an old barn. When I found her she was so skinny. It wasn't long until she had 3 kittens! Those babies must have been skin & bones inside her because she had no meat on her. Of course, we fed her very well-leave feed out 24/7. This cat was an excellent hunter but it is still hard for them to find enough to survive on their own.

Also, I've heard people say not to feed a cat or it won't hunt. Bull! I've had cats all my life and we've always fed them and they hunt. Now, I know also that some cats just don't have it in them to hunt. We had one of those, she tried to "take in" a couple of guinea pigs. What a sight!

 

[cmjust0]

One day a neighbor showed up after a stray dog had made its way to our place.. He starts off with "I hate to bother you, but I wanted to talk to you about that dog..." I'm thinking to myself that he's about to get nasty over me "harboring" it (which I kinda was :lol: ), but then he says "I've been giving it food and water since he showed up at my place, and he seems like a good dog, but he's not good about staying around. I'll chain him up if he's bothering you, but I can't stand to see a dog go hungry."

Turns out that we both really expected the other to get seriously P/O'd about feeding strays -- which we were both doing. :lol: I stopped feeding him and, sure enough, he started hanging out at their place. :lol:

 

[ffscj]

Remember the three S's Dun.

But after I shoot them how do I bury their vehicle? Hard enough digging a hole for a persons body but a car or truck.....

dun

Make the vehicle look like it belonged to someone from the city who came out to go hunting. Park it beside the road near a known hunting area. People will think they must have gotten lost while out hunting. Problem solved. :lol:

Chris

 

[L Weir]

We have six cats and none were born here. All found by other people and brought here.

As sad as is it for strangers to dump off pets, it's just as irritating when non-farmer relatives and friends assume that just because you live on a farm you should be able to take in their beloved pets they get tired of. We got a gold fish from the inlaws because the fish wouldn't die.

 

[Dusty Britches]

Oh, I've got a lot of these stories - just like y'all.

The most saddening -
My friend was doing some work in a ditch in front of his house. He saw a Suburban in his drive, so he walked to the house. As he approached, it left in a big hurry. He could see a little red head boy crying in the back window. He looked at his yard and they dumped a golden retriever there. He didn't think to get the license plate.


Some non-farmer relatives approached me last year and said, "Hey, you have a ranch and cows, right?" My first repsonse was a skeptical, "Why?" We are trying to find a home with lots of space for a blue heeler. My response was, "Why?" Because he's been kept in a crate ALL HIS LIFE. He is 2 years old and needs lots of attention. I politely responded that I didn't have time for basket cases. Not just no, but heck no.

 

[john250]

W We got a gold fish from the inlaws because the fish wouldn't die.

Those in-laws--their name wouldn't be Corleone by any chance?

 

[dun]

We got a gold fish from the inlaws because the fish wouldn't die.

When you take them out of their bowl to clean it let them swim around in the toilet as a temporary bowl. An inadvertant flush would solve the problem

dun

 

[cmjust0]

He could see a little red head boy crying in the back window. He looked at his yard and they dumped a golden retriever there.

If you're gonna get rid of a kid's dog against the kid's wishes, why on Earth would you take the kid along? Wouldn't you just wait till the kid was gone, dump the dog, then tell the kid he ran away or something?

Oh, wait. I forgot. We're dealing with idiots here.

Nevermind.

 

[Alice]

He could see a little red head boy crying in the back window. He looked at his yard and they dumped a golden retriever there.

If you're gonna get rid of a kid's dog against the kid's wishes, why on Earth would you take the kid along? Wouldn't you just wait till the kid was gone, dump the dog, then tell the kid he ran away or something?

Oh, wait. I forgot. We're dealing with idiots here.

Nevermind.

My sister is a foster care placement specialist for CPS. Many years ago she took over another worker's territory and discovered that the foster parents of a little girl "punished" her by having the child's cat euthanized. My sister was horrified, the child was placed elsewhere, the home was closed.

When I read that about the little boy seen crying from the window, it brought that wretched story to mind. The first thing that pinged in my brain was...the little boy was being punished. Now, is that the case? We'll never know...but people do horrible things to children and pets...

Alice

 

[Victoria]

We've gotten countless dogs and cats show up. The saddest one was an old white dog when I was a kid. Such a nice dog. He knew every trick - beg, play dead, roll over you name it. Obviously someone had spent a lot of time with him. We would have thought he had accidently wandered from home except he was completely and totally blind. We looked for ads just in case and put out a few but put him down a few days later realizing that some jerk had just ditched him after he wasn't useful anymore. We would have kept him but a ranch is just not a place for a blind dog. Sure made me mad.

 

[backhoeboogie]

Remember the three S's Dun.

But after I shoot them how do I bury their vehicle? Hard enough digging a hole for a persons body but a car or truck.....

dun

I know a guy with a backhoe and track loader.

 

[chrisy]

we get many stray cats around but no dogs, although the worst case we had not so long ago was a child that was dumped, because is Mum said he was to naughty to look after him anymore/ Social Services took him and I don't know what happened after that. Oh! he was 3 years old. he had been on the street all night in the cold rain. to me some people need stringing up.