Dumped dog & a wet blanket ( warning- sad story)

BlunderWoman

BlunderWoman

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My daughter lives next to a woody area behind a busy highway. She was looking out her window the other day on a really cold and rainy day & saw a pitbull mix dog lying in the ditch shivering on a wet blanket. Someone had dumped him and just let him out in the ditch and drove off. She tried to get the dog to come but he did not want to leave his spot. He was waiting for his master. He lay there cold, wet and shivering waiting for them to return for him. My daughter cooked up some meat and took it outside in the rain and finally tempted the dog to come in their house where he could warm up. He went to her window after eating and looked at the spot in the ditch where he had been dumped and whimpered wanting back out to go back and wait for people he had no idea were never coming back for him. Such a loyal pet these people had and they could not even be bothered to place him somewhere safe.
My daughter found a home for him in a couple of days with new owners who wanted him. The last thing he did before driving away with his new owners was look again at the ditch where he had been dumped.

Really it's very hard not to wish those people find themselves in a similar boat someday. Unbelievable how cold hearted some people are.
 

Pitbulls are illegal in the UK, thank goodness, and will be humanely put down if someone is caught in possession of one.
 
bluesunflower said:
Pitbulls are illegal in the UK, thank goodness, and will be humanely put down if someone is caught in possession of one.
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Yes I'm aware there are various dog laws in varied countries. I thank you for your input, but this story isn't really about the breed of the dog, or opinions on varied dog breeds..this story is about abandonment .
 

I have a pond on my property that has wild geese and ducks. Periodically people drive by and pop domestic geese or ducks over the fence and leave. These guys just don't make it. If the winter is cold, they don't know what to do on the ice and the others all fly away. I try to feed them, but they can't get to the food and I can't get it to them. Should they survive the winter, the coyotes will get them in the spring. The wild ones fly, the domestics fall prey. It is so sad, at times I have managed to keep them alive for a couple of years. Most of these are ditched here in the summer - spring babies kept as pets who now are just big messy responsibilities.

It really should be illegal to sell the chicks and ducklings as pets for children. They are not toys. If they survive the squeezing without permanent damage to their organs, they are still terrified of human touch when they show up here. And they are doomed one way or another. It makes me angry.
 
BlunderWoman said:
My daughter lives next to a woody area behind a busy highway. She was looking out her window the other day on a really cold and rainy day & saw a pitbull mix dog lying in the ditch shivering on a wet blanket. Someone had dumped him and just let him out in the ditch and drove off. She tried to get the dog to come but he did not want to leave his spot. He was waiting for his master. He lay there cold, wet and shivering waiting for them to return for him. My daughter cooked up some meat and took it outside in the rain and finally tempted the dog to come in their house where he could warm up. He went to her window after eating and looked at the spot in the ditch where he had been dumped and whimpered wanting back out to go back and wait for people he had no idea were never coming back for him. Such a loyal pet these people had and they could not even be bothered to place him somewhere safe.
My daughter found a home for him in a couple of days with new owners who wanted him. The last thing he did before driving away with his new owners was look again at the ditch where he had been dumped.

Really it's very hard not to wish those people find themselves in a similar boat someday. Unbelievable how cold hearted some people are.
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Miserable, mean spirited scum! What we do to animals is awful!

Our cat was abandoned too and over the course of the summer, the fall and the early part of winter, he starved to where he lost 60% of his body weight. We managed to finally catch him because an infection had laid him so low that he could no longer run in terror.
 
bluesunflower said:
Pitbulls are illegal in the UK, thank goodness, and will be humanely put down if someone is caught in possession of one.
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My daughter has two lovely pits and a chihuahua and two cats. They are a great fur-family and I'm sad that you have such a poor understanding of the breed. It always comes down to whether the owners are good people who know how to raise a strong breed, or idiots who for a variety of reasons, sometimes deliberate and sometimes because they are simply ignorant, raise dogs who wind up doing bad things.

Maybe it would be better if we started putting down the bad owners.
 
I couldn't do something like that, it's cruel. They may have a bad reputation but they are probably one of the most abused breeds too! There are several pet rescues and an SPCA in my area and they are loaded down with Pitts and mixed ones. The dogs owners are responsible for neutering, instead of expanding the population then have them fixed! They can be trained, which is what I would suggest any responsible owner to do! I remember when German Shepard were a feared breed as well as Rotweilers. Training can make a huge difference plus being able to control a large breed that is so strong in the first place. Just dropping the poor thing out the car door is unbelievably cruel.
 
Debby said:
My daughter has two lovely pits and a chihuahua and two cats. They are a great fur-family and I'm sad that you have such a poor understanding of the breed. It always comes down to whether the owners are good people who know how to raise a strong breed, or idiots who for a variety of reasons, sometimes deliberate and sometimes because they are simply ignorant, raise dogs who wind up doing bad things.

Maybe it would be better if we started putting down the bad owners.
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Pitbulls can be very dangerous indeed and have caused deaths in the UK which is why they are banned, and are put down if they are discovered. We have had loads of cats in our 47 years of marriage, they were useful for keeping down vermin, they certainly weren't permitted in the house. We have had lots of dogs too, they have their uses. I would never permit anyone to be unnecessarily cruel to an animal, but they should be treated like the species they are, not surrogate humans.
 
Unfortunately for dogs, far too many people have them and don't have a clue how to raise them or treat them as a species. And that can be said even of people who have chihuahuas or maltese or ???

A few years ago, my daughter with her pit allowed an old friend of her husbands to stay at their home and bring her pit bull with her. The woman was trying to leave a bad home situation herself so they allowed her to stay with her dog and the plan was for her to be with them for a month, perhaps two. At the end of the first week, my daughter had to ask her to leave because the womans dog kept attacking Hooch. And good old Hooch never tried to protect himself from the smaller, younger female but started trying to avoid her which in a two bedroom apartment was not that easy. And every time the dog attacked, the woman did nothing but watch. She never restrained her dog, never confined her to a kennel, nothing. Should Hooch or even that young female be killed because that woman is an idiot?

I happen to think that if an animal is treated in a manner due and suitable for the species and breed it is, it can be a successful part of a family and when I say part of the family, I mean that it is in the house with its family just as it's little heart yearns for. Treating any animal like it is a thing or a useful implement (keeping down the mice or guarding the yard often by tying it outside) is to ignore one of their most basic needs which is companionship from us. I've always cared about my animals happiness. Not that they're overly concerned about my convenience and as I write this, I'm reaching between Ziggy's legs to type because he wants to stand between me and my keyboard:D! Silly boy, I think he's asking for his lunch time treat!
 
I once saw a great cartoon that I thought says it all (when it comes to dogs in particular).

A little cartoon kid goes out to a dog that is chained to his little dog house. The dog gets all excited and is happily jumping and licking at the boy who is petting him. The boy says, 'I don't know why you're getting so excited because we're not going anywhere". And the dog says (to himself), 'you put a chain around my neck, not my heart'. That's how our dogs feel I think.

Down the road from where we used to live, there was a house with one of those dog igloos about 60 feet from the back door of the house. Every day for two years, no matter how awful the weather, we would drive by and see that dog sitting there by himself at the end of the chain and looking towards the house. It was obvious that he was lonely, sometimes very cold or sometimes very hot.....and then one day he wasn't there anymore.
 
We had German shepherds when I was a kid, my father had them as guard dogs to protect his horticultural business. One became dangerous and my father had it put down, he probably shot it. Humans must always be protected from dangerous dogs.
 
Debby said:
Unfortunately for dogs, far too many people have them and don't have a clue how to raise them or treat them as a species. And that can be said even of people who have chihuahuas or maltese or ???

A few years ago, my daughter with her pit allowed an old friend of her husbands to stay at their home and bring her pit bull with her. The woman was trying to leave a bad home situation herself so they allowed her to stay with her dog and the plan was for her to be with them for a month, perhaps two. At the end of the first week, my daughter had to ask her to leave because the womans dog kept attacking Hooch. And good old Hooch never tried to protect himself from the smaller, younger female but started trying to avoid her which in a two bedroom apartment was not that easy. And every time the dog attacked, the woman did nothing but watch. She never restrained her dog, never confined her to a kennel, nothing. Should Hooch or even that young female be killed because that woman is an idiot?

I happen to think that if an animal is treated in a manner due and suitable for the species and breed it is, it can be a successful part of a family and when I say part of the family, I mean that it is in the house with its family just as it's little heart yearns for. Treating any animal like it is a thing or a useful implement (keeping down the mice or guarding the yard often by tying it outside) is to ignore one of their most basic needs which is companionship from us. I've always cared about my animals happiness. Not that they're overly concerned about my convenience and as I write this, I'm reaching between Ziggy's legs to type because he wants to stand between me and my keyboard:D! Silly boy, I think he's asking for his lunch time treat!
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Agreed. While I have to add that, yes, there are individual dogs with mental defects the same as there are such people, almost all of the time the owner is to blame for the dog's cluelessness as to how to act appropriately. If you don't want to spend the time and patience it takes to communicate to your dog what is expected of him/her, don't have one.
 
bluesunflower said:
Pitbulls can be very dangerous indeed and have caused deaths in the UK which is why they are banned, and are put down if they are discovered. We have had loads of cats in our 47 years of marriage, they were useful for keeping down vermin, they certainly weren't permitted in the house. We have had lots of dogs too, they have their uses. I would never permit anyone to be unnecessarily cruel to an animal, but they should be treated like the species they are, not surrogate humans.
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There is miles of difference between being treated like a"Surragote human" and cruelty.
Your statement, "they certainly weren't permitted in the house" pretty much sums up what kind of person you are.
My house has cats dogs,and has at times temporily sheltered goats, pigs, chickens, and calfs. We have barn cats that spend 99% of their lives outside. However if they want to come in they are welcome.



We also have an immaculately OCD like clean house. Our pets do not hide from the vacuum.
 
dog lover said:
Agreed. While I have to add that, yes, there are individual dogs with mental defects the same as there are such people, almost all of the time the owner is to blame for the dog's cluelessness as to how to act appropriately. If you don't want to spend the time and patience it takes to communicate to your dog what is expected of him/her, don't have one.
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You're right, dogs have mental illnesses just like we do. We had a little chihuahua that seriously had anxiety issues and I always thought that he seemed to demonstrate the same types of issues that autistic children do. He was our sweet little weirdo until the day he died at the age of 15. Even though he was completely useless (you couldn't even cuddle him because of his issues), he made us smile constantly just at his weird and wacky ways.

But how many dogs are destroyed because of bad owners? That is really sad and not at all fair.

And some people do manage to have 'unusual' house pets. Like Esther the Wonder Pig who lives in the house with her people in Ontario.



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When hubby had Barbados sheep, I ended up with lambs in the house every spring. Barbados have twins and triplets, and often mom rejects one. So there hubby would show up, lamb in arms, looking at me. What was I to do? So I'd fix up a dog crate and hubby would do most of the feeding and walking. The troublesome part was that they would imprint on him and he could not get them to leave him. They were glued to his side. He spent many an hour in the pasture with all the sheep, trying to sneak away and leave the weaned lambs behind.

I see it like this. Empathy is inborn. We all have varying amounts of it, the few people totally without are sociopaths. Then there is cross species empathy, and again we have varying amounts of it, with some more people just having none. This has been useful to humans ever since we started raising animals for food - if you have cross species empathy and work in a slaughter house, you will simply go crazy, it would be unbearable.

I don't judge people by their empathy anymore, everyone has what they got and that is that. I think that myself, I have too much of it. It can be a curse, too. I can have many sleepless nights and nightmares over an unfortunate dog I saw for a few minutes somewhere. I see suffering, I am compelled to help, regardless of whether it's a human or an animal. Life is a lot easier without that much empathy.

That said, the rewards that can come from helping a person or animal in need are very nice for someone with empathy. You feel the good and the bad both.
 
Robusta said:
There is miles of difference between being treated like a"Surragote human" and cruelty.
Your statement, "they certainly weren't permitted in the house" pretty much sums up what kind of person you are.
My house has cats dogs,and has at times temporily sheltered goats, pigs, chickens, and calfs. We have barn cats that spend 99% of their lives outside. However if they want to come in they are welcome.



We also have an immaculately OCD like clean house. Our pets do not hide from the vacuum.
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I proudly treat our pets as "surrogate humans." One look at our vet bills would convince anyone of that. I have no use for people for people who are cruel to animals or would abandon them.
 
For those who understood that the purpose of this thread was to discuss the abandonment and not to derail the topic into breed debates..I thank you for your thoughts.
 
Capt Lightning said:
I think that bluesunflower makes some reasonable points. Robusta, do actually shelter goats, pigs etc in your house, or do you mean in outbuildings, fields etc?
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I thought you had some livestock Capn'. Yes many is the cold winter night or wet rainy day that I have sat in the laundry room, with a space heater and blankets, nursing a newborn critter whose mother had not accepted it. First week of a new flock of baby chicks is also in said laundry room, much easier to regulate a small container in the house than in a remote outbuilding.

Other than dogs and a couple of cats, adult animals stay outside with a run in barn.
 
Robusta said:
I thought you had some livestock Capn'. Yes many is the cold winter night or wet rainy day that I have sat in the laundry room, with a space heater and blankets, nursing a newborn critter whose mother had not accepted it. First week of a new flock of baby chicks is also in said laundry room, much easier to regulate a small container in the house than in a remote outbuilding.

Other than dogs and a couple of cats, adult animals stay outside with a run in barn.
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Awww, baby chicks and critters in your laundry room. I knew there was a reason I admired you.
 
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