I found a dog

[ChocolateLab33]

I found a dog the other day. I just happened to go outside to sweep my carport and I hear a little noise (her collar) and I look up and there's a little dog walking along the street so I whistle and she comes right to me. She was filthy, matted, hot and she was limping. I put her in a room off of my carport and I ran in to get a leash so I could tie her to a post in the shade. I got her some water and some treats. Then I called the police. They put me on hold and found the owner through the # on her rabies tag but when I told the guy what horrible condition she was in he sent animal control to my house. The A/C officer checked the dog and said her condition was deplorable. She took digital photos and took the dog. She told me the owner would be mandated to take the dog to a vet-and the owner had one week to comply or she would be fined and the dog would probably be taken away. The officer also said the dog was underweight. WTF?????? I am furious that the owner could even get the dog back. If I had my way.........well I won't go there on this family forum. Use your imagination as to what I would do! I snapped some of my own photos while I waited for the A/C officer.

The photos don't even show what terrible condition this dog was in::thumbsdow

It breaks my heart to know that people could treat an animal this way. My dogs are like little people to me.

 

[TigerhawkT3]

:thumbsup: for finding that poor doggie. I'll bet she'd clean up real nice! Give your labs a hug from me.

...And what do you mean, "they're 'LIKE' little people"?

 

[ChocolateLab33]

Actually, looking in her little face while I had her (about 30 min) I did notice she was pretty darn cute under all that nasty.

I'll give my pooches a smug. That's a smooch and a hug.

 

[Oznog]

Well there's a real sad truth behind this. See AC is so overloaded in most cities that "taking a dog away" would often just mean putting it down. Or another potentially adoptable dog had to be put down because you only have a few qualified adoptive owners come in per day and it's already more animals than there are owners. So you bring in 3 more animals that weren't in the best of homes and manage to hook them up with the available adopters, that does mean 3 more that were surrendered or found stray won't make it.

That's why AC has to have what may seem to be fairly "relaxed" standards. And they did the right thing- making the owner know what acceptable standards are and that they intend to check up on them.

There are a lot of reasons the dog could be underweight, not necessarily starved, it's hard to say. In fact I knew people whose dogs came down with incurable conditions that caused them to become emaciated even with the best of care. People left and right called the cops on them. Tough, I mean your dog's dying of cancer and every other day somebody's yelling at you that you're starving them death.

 

[TorchBoy]

It's cool you did the right thing for her. Is it possible she had been lost and wandering for a while, and that rather than maltreatment led to its sad condition?

 

[TONY M]

It's cool you did the right thing for her. Is it possible she had been lost and wandering for a while, and that rather than maltreatment led to its sad condition?

Thats what I was thinking. Is that the owners lead on it or one of your's?
Hopefully things will get better for it in the future.

 

[BIGIRON]

My three rescued dogs say "good job".

 

[Cyclops942]

As the "daddy" of one (and formerly two) rescued dogs, I salute you.

The dog that is no longer with us actually DID develop cancer, and he died a little over a year ago. The situation described above is not at all far-fetched.

 

[ChocolateLab33]

It's cool you did the right thing for her. Is it possible she had been lost and wandering for a while, and that rather than maltreatment led to its sad condition?

I believe that the owner let this happen over a long period of time. The AC officer told me the owner lives just down the street so when she left with the dog I followed her and the house she went to is a house I had to call AC on before. They were letting a large Rottweiler rome with no leash. The Rotty has threatened my dogs from the roadside several times. I haven't seen it in a while. I wonder if they still have it. IMO, these people are not worthy of owning any animal.

 

[ChocolateLab33]

Thats what I was thinking. Is that the owners lead on it or one of your's?
Hopefully things will get better for it in the future.

That was my leash on the dog.

 

[jzmtl]

This thread reminds me, I saw a dog running around in the car dealer lot behind my house at night a couple of times, even saw it again last night, wonder if it's a stray.

 

[TITAN1833]

That was my leash on the dog.

i guessed that,I doubt the owner of the little fella would even buy a leash.Most likely uses a bit of old rope,and you are right they should not be allowed to keep such a wonderful trusting animal.

 

[TONY M]

IMO, these people are not worthy of owning any animal.

+1 They aren't.

 

[ChocolateLab33]

Well, we all know there are some very SICK people out there.....

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Man guilty of hanging dog from its choke chain in Appleton, Wis.


September 7, 2008
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FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS
APPLETON, Wis. — A man accused of hanging his dog from its choke chain has been convicted of felony mistreatment of animals.
Thirty-five-year-old Eric Shattuck of Appleton pleaded no contest Thursday in Outagamie County Circuit Court.
The criminal complaint says Shattuck told a visitor on Sept. 26 he hung the dog after it refused to drink a fatal dose of antifreeze.
The woman reported that the dog was still hanging in Shattuck's garage the next day. Police found the animal's body in a garbage bag in the garage.
Shattuck told the woman he killed the dog because he didn't want it anymore.
He faces up to 3 1/2 years of prison and extended supervision when he is sentenced Nov. 6.

 

[Monocrom]

My dogs are like little people to me.

I don't think of pets in that regard, but I still hate it when someone abuses an animal. Especially a small, harmless one.

You did a good thing by helping that little dog. But yeah, in many places; the owner gets the animal handed back to him along with a citation to "do something" about the condition of the animal. Sad to say, few abusive owners take the citations seriously.

In all honesty, if you have the room in your heart & home, best thing to do is just take the collar off of a clearly abused pet and toss the collar in a dumpster....

"Oh hey! Look at the stray little doggie I found. Hmm, no collar. Oh well, guess that makes you mine."

 

[TorchBoy]

Don't they have doggie microchipping over there?

 

[Monocrom]

Don't they have doggie microchipping over there?

An abusive owner who doesn't spend enough money to properly feed or take care of a pet, is not likely to spend the extra money for a chip.

In the unlikely even that he does, what's he going to do? Scream at the Animal Control officer that the dog did in fact have a collar when it ran away? Yeah, he can have fun trying to prove that.

 

[TorchBoy]

This talk of dog-napping is making me feel a tad uneasy.

 

[Monocrom]

This talk of dog-napping is making me feel a tad uneasy.

Sorry if my earlier posts were misleading.

If I find a dog with a collar, I return it to its loving owner.

If that dog is clearly underweight, or shows recent signs of abuse on its body; then there clearly is no loving owner for me to return the dog to.

There's just an abusive jerk who will only continue to abuse the animal. I'm not trying to turn this into a morality discussion. Just wish to clarify that I can't see myself returning a found, abused, animal back to the person who did the abusing.

Hope this clarifies my earlier posts.

EDIT ~

Just wanted to mention that if I didn't know about Animal Control's policy of returning clearly abused pets to owners who only get citations as a first offense, I'd have done the same thing the Original Poster did.

Unfortunately, I believe that policy is the same in many parts of America.

 

[Gatsby]

Ugh. Our younger dog was a rescue - found on the side of the road underfed and with a broken hip where he'd been hit by a car (who kindly did not stop... :scowl. So he received hip surgery thanks to the volunteer vet and the emergency operation fund (paid the expenses of meds, etc.., vet donated their time and facilities), general medical care and nutrition. My wife found him at an adoption fair on his last weekend before being put down - not many people apparently want a nearly full grown big black lab - and he's been a real joy since then. He's big, bigger than we'd expected, and a bit of a goofball but he is a truly sweet boy and wonderful with our kids.

I cannot fathom how dogs end up in such situations - abandoned by his owner and by the person who hit him. Deplorable.