build a g.d fence!
I have lived in this teeny tiny texas town for about a month now and have seen 1 dog running around my yard, one running across the yards across the street, one dog hiding underneath my car after a rain storm, a dog run out in front of my car, and a dog just walking around the streets near my school. This is way too many dogs that are not taken care of.
The dog hiding underneath my car was the saddest of all. It growled at me when I first saw it, but I slowly got closer to check its collar, I get closer and he doesnt have a collar, he's also incredibly skinny and the neighbors said that hes always walking around. He gets warmed up to me enough to come out from under the car and into my yard, so that I could take him to my back yard, give him some food and water and play with him, but unfortunately his owners came, yelled at him, put him in the trunk and drove off. They even had to stop a couple times because he was trying to climb out. He just kept looking at me as they drove away. : (
People around here just dont seem to care about animals, I dont know why they would get them in the first place.
My neighbor, shes also one of my students, told me one day that her dad shot their dog and that he threatened to shoot hers, but that she made him stop. She said proudly that hers never runs away because its always chained up. ugh. shes only 4, but I still feel bad for the dog! I told her that her dog would probably like a nice fence better so he could run around.
Ugh. I grew up in the sticks, so of course there were no leash laws. I never thought anything about it. After living in cities for about 8 years, I started working in a rural community. On my drive, I began to notice a lot of dead dogs on the side of the road. I was puzzled at first, but then I remembered that leash laws don't always exist in rural communities. It's really disturbing. I see dogs walking/running around all the time. I'm terrified I'm gonna hit one. Ugh. And I do see the occasional dog chained by 4 feet of rope. Again. Ugh.
yes! I have never seen so many dead dogs until I came to texas. Its so sad : (
Aw, thats so sad.
I remember one time driving down the highway, and traffic came to a crawl, and as we drove we saw that a great big German Shepherd had run onto the highway (3 lanes), and a woman had apparently hit it. She had a bit of blood on her head and looked dazed, and had 4 or 5 people tending to her, while the dog lay dying further down the road. It was so sad.
Letting dogs run free is never a good thing.
Aw, thats so sad.
I remember one time driving down the highway, and traffic came to a crawl, and as we drove we saw that a great big German Shepherd had run onto the highway (3 lanes), and a woman had apparently hit it. She had a bit of blood on her head and looked dazed, and had 4 or 5 people tending to her, while the dog lay dying further down the road. It was so sad.
Letting dogs run free is never a good thing.
why wasn't anyone helping the pup?!?!?! :(
exactly
It's true I agree.
Maybe I'm a big sap but I believe that my pets are four-legged kids. I love them too much to ever take the chance of them getting hit by a car, so they are either in the yard with the gate SHUT or they are on a leash. I couldn't live with myself if anything happened to them because of my neglect.
That's EXACTLY how it is where I'm currently living and one of the reasons why I've had to rescue so many dogs. I am the ONLY one in my subdivision that has a fence for my dogs. I have nearly 2 acres fenced in for them on an 8 acre wooded lot. The neighborhood where I live is all 3+ acres lots. Almost everyone has a dog (or several dogs). These are not trailer trash I live among. Most of the people in here either work at the local college as professors (the Dean of the college lives here and has 3 dogs)..or work at the local hospital, or own a business (+ one of the local "taliban" and loves to hunt pastors lives in here as well....nice that he gets paid so well....seems like good a "business" to be in these days....preaching fear seems to pay well these days....) >:(.....
Well....anyway.... before I ramble on any longer about that topic......SORRY! They (my neighbors) all wake up and just let there dogs out.....or come home and do the same thing. Most in here "bought" their dogs....almost none are fixed. I guess they all think that if you live out in the country it's "OK" to just let your dogs roam the neighborhood. Just a few nights ago I actually had one of my neighbor's son ring the buzzer at my gate at 9pm and ask me if I had seen their dog....a little Jack Russell Terrior.....I buzzed him up and he and his uncle said they had been out all day at a football game and when they came home the dog was not there....Who f*cking goes out for the day and leaves their dog out to just roam????? I feel so horrible for the dog...he's still missing....
Still to this day.....I can not drive to town here without seeing either a dog dead on the side of the road.....or a skinny starving dog wandering around looking for food.... :-\
I have to say.....where I'm moving back to (in 2 more weeks)...the Woodstock, NY area....well it's just as rural there, maybe even more so....yet when I previously lived there...I only found 1 dog on the side of the road. He had a tag and was an old old black lab that was semi-senile. I called the owner and she came down her driveway and picked him up.....makes me wonder why......even in a rural area such as Woodstock/New Paltz.....there were never ever any strays on the road.... ???
Down here.....it's part of the huge problem as to why GA still has one of the highest euthanasia rates for homeless dogs in the country....... :'(
I hope whoever is moving into your place behind you has as big a heart as you Dave.
Someone's gotta take over the reins.
The leash laws are more strictly enforced in some areas than others. NY sounds like they enforce it, I know they did in Iowa as late as the early 90s. My sister had 2 Dobermans and they liked to jump the fence while she was at work and go wandering (one of them taught the other). They had plenty of room and care and affection, they just liked to roam! The police retrieved her dogs free once, but the second time she had to pay a fine, and they said the 3rd her dogs would be taken to the shelter..and THEN she would be informed. The third fine was even heftier, so she wisely built a different type of fence.
I spent a summer working in a very rural town in southwest Arizona one year. Our neighbors each had a dog that they let out when they left in the morning (one of them actually had a fence, but the dog could jump over it!). One of them was a light colored Shepard that people kept calling Fish and Game about because they thought it was a coyote. I was afraid one day the dog would be shot. Anyway, every day when I came home from work the dogs would come running. They had been outside all day in the Arizona heat. I would let them inside give them water and treats and let them stay in the air conditioning. It got to the point where the dogs were waiting outside the house when I got home. I felt so bad for them. I believe they were well cared for otherwise but I felt the owners were irresponsible.
OMG I am so paranoid about my dog...well one of them. We put a cement block under the gate and an extra bungee cord around it just in case she gets any ideas.
Several years ago, when DD was a puppy, I let her out and then took a nap. Since she loved to sleep on the blanket outside I wasn't too worried but when I woke up she was gone! I was horrified and put up posters all over town.
Turns out she had gotten out the back gate and followed a jogger who took off her collar and said she was his and wanted to sell her.
Thankfully a concerned citizen bought her because he didn't think this guy was right in the head and kept her with his dogs. A relative of his saw the poster and new it was my dog. I got her back on xmas eve! I couldn't imagine a better xmas present!!! :D
We reimbursed him for his expense plus some!! Ever since then I hate it when she goes to the back yard for long periods of time! I get paranoid when I can't see her and I have to go out all the time to make sure all the gates are still closed. It's made me neurotic. LOL But I just don't want to see that happen again.
So, I can't see why anyone would want to put their pet in harms way.
My S/O's sis got a puppy a year or 2 ago and she yelled at me because I wanted to hold it all the time and that made her feel like she didn't know what to do with an animal. Well guess what?.....that puppy and the next few animals they had were either hit by cars or ran/flew away!! I want to throw it in her face that I was right and if she ever brings it up again I just might but for now I just choose not to talk to her.
Even her goats and "good" dog run away and she gets into trouble. My thought is....why does she have so many animals if she refuses to contain them humanely or at all??? They have 2 goats, several cats, at least one dog, used to have doves till they all flew away. Just nuts! (Plus she got pissed at me because I didn't approve of her pig cage....even though I didn't say anything about it) THEN knowing I was veg and S/O was trying, she gave us a bunch ham and such of the pigs she killed and called me a bad influence!!!
Ok getting off topic. But yeah! A good secure fence in the way to go! :)
Viv
these are all good stories! When I see these dogs running around, I want to take them in and care for the, but just when im about to, their bad owner comes along and takes them back. ergh. I just want to say 'leave them here! go away!' heh.
My neighborhood is awful with this. Literally, no one has any fences and it's a total dog neighborhood. ALL the dogs are running loose. Our neighborhood is pretty removed from heavy traffic, but 2.5 miles away is a fairly busy highway. Just the other day, I saw a puppy in the middle of the road who had been run over. :'(
There is nothing that works with my neighbors. Because, it's, literally the WHOLE neighborhood that has dogs, which run loose. I've left fliers in all their mailboxes, asking them to be careful. I've even threatened with animal control (I wouldn't really call them - it was a bluff) ... but nothing.
The worst are the really small dogs that you don't notice until it's too late. There's like 4 of them in my neighborhood.