I am constantly placing animals. It is very hard to do. And I am running out of good people.
Ya know, if their cat dies I call when a kitten comes in and they make take one. Then, I can't call them again for 15 years...
The people from the other countries are primarily the ones mistreating them be it ignorance or culture. Granted there are some HORRIBLE Americans with pets, what we see are people from other countries feeding their dogs rice and milk, dogs are lactose intolerant and rice has no protein. They have designer dogs but No money for shots... We try and educate them and have even sent articles to their newpapers.... But many people from other countries will not nueter as if it were their own testicles.
There are some Americans who want their kids "to see the beauty" of birth... as well as people form other countries, but they seem to windup in a box abandoned at our hospital and become my responsibility. It kills me.
Redneck America are another group that come in with their missing teeth and their puppies they are going to sell...
Where I am it is primarily folks from other countries. (Where you are it maybe different) And even the people, from those countries, I work with, are disgusted.
One family through an interupter told me they were getting rid of their dog. He is 9 months old. He is 32 pounds. NOW they decide they want a smaller one. So, they want US to find him a home.... Geez.... Then, they are getting a smaller one? Poor dog...
One of the Americans who comes in has 10 dogs he took from his Hondoras neighbor. The neighbor gets a dog, has no shots, no fence, lets them walk around the streets and may or may not feed them. They show up at Chester home who vets them, feeds them and takes them in. They have explained the LAW here and the neighbors do not care -- they just go and get another dog.
It is an act of love to get the pets spay or neutered.
There is another way people get rid of their unwanted dogs. They just drive out into the country and dump the dog.
I know too many ranchers who when they see a dog, they shot it on sight. Dogs kill livstock like you wouldn't believe.
It's not really expensive to get your pets fixed. We got our bitch fixed just because we didn't want any more puppies. Yes they are cute but they grow up.
I have seen many ads for neutering for free.
There is a group here who captures wild cats, neuters them and then releases them. They have done this to over 700 in the last three years. The hard parts catching them.
And people catch feral cats and bring them in for a spay/neuter. It does help cut the population. But just ONE cat that was let go in the woods behind us-- had about four kittens -- so now Betty, myself and two old women at the place next to us feed them.
Again - others create the problem and we fix it.
Yes, I know of dogs who come in abandoned at construction sites or dumped in the "country" thinking the farmers will take care of them....
A woman brought in one of the nicest and beautifully marked cats I have seen. She was dlh cream colored with pastel silver in the nicest places.
She had a broken pelvis -- it lools like someone beat her with a bat or kicked VERY hard. This woman now has her as an inside cat.
She had a big vet bill and yes, now she has the responsibility of someone elses problem.
Another woman, very poor, brought in a cat who was shot by a bebe gun. Nice cat named Lucas. He has such a horrible infection -- and yes he was dumped and she took him in.
We bought Sophie, our yellow lab, when she was 6 years old from a couple who had had her from a pup. Her grandfather was a national champion, Borador's Ridgeway Reflection. They stated that she was vicious and might harm their 22-month-old child. She is of show lab stock and shorter than a field lab, with heavier bones. Her ideal weight, which I am proud to say we have achieved, is about 65 lb. She weighed 110 lb. when we got her. God bless her heart. She figured out where she belonged in the household and took her position (as queen) graciously.
After 9/11, Mr. Garden and I were extremely stressed, as our son was at boot camp and refused to contact us, and we had no idea what would happen to him in this national emergency. Sophie would come over to us, use her front paws to push over if we were sitting on the floor, and curl herself around us as if we were her puppies, emitting anxioux little grunts of concern. Her warm pink tongue would lap our faces, her golden eyes filled with love and a desire to make things better for us.
When my son returned from the Navy, his child was beginning to walk. He used Sophie for a speed bump. She lapped his face, too.
Now to make a short story long, as I often do, Sophie was NOT spayed when we got her. She was too well fed, emotionally distraught, and aching in every bone for love and attention. And these people had the unmitigated audacity to ask us to contact them if we bred her, as they would like to have one of her puppies. They couldn't take care of the greatest dog I've ever met, that heart, that trust, that devotion, but they wanted one of her puppies? I got her spayed the first year.
Sophie is 14 now. She has bad arthritis in her hips and lumbar spine, at least partially from being overweight for several years before we got her. She can be crochety and demanding, needing her rear end picked up and set straight because she has neurological damage to her spine and sometimes can get her toes straightened out. But I do it without too much complaint. She would the same for me and more if she could.
When I don't have Sophie any more, I will contact our local animal shelters to see if they can get me another lab. She wasn't a puppy when we got her. She was house trained, and been to puppy school. She was smart and eager to please. She didn't chew shoes or furniture. She needed love and a place in the household. She has given us back more than we could ever give her, including gratitude, which most people don't show those who help them out.
If you want a dog, try a shelter or rescue before you look for a breeder. And stay away from those cursed pet stores that buy from puppy farms! We are trying to outlaw that particular brand of he11hole in Ohio.
WG
Spaying a female dog also cuts their chances for developing breast cancer, according to my vet.
Like I've said before, how a society/culture treats it's animals is a measure of how it will eventually treat it's people...
I participate in my local ASPCA's TNR program for feral cats and it does work, and as an animal care specialist in the army, we have started to use this philosophy too.
How sad...what an embarassing failure we are as stewards of God's creation...
My beloved aunt was lonely living alone and wondered if she could have a dog. I left Sophie with her and Sophie just sat by the door and whined until I returned. So when my son found a cat and we took it to the shelter, I ended up with a 2 year old neutered Llasa Apso named Sport,and he lived with my aunt for a while.
My aunt died two months after I got Sport. She was his third placement. He was a nervous little thing who chewed on anything that didn't bite back. I brought him home with me and for a while we had three dogs vying for food and attention. Sport at 12 lb, invariably won, staring down a Labrador retrievr who loves her chow.
Fast forward - my sister-in-law begged for him. It was a match made in heaven. She thinks he's the perfect dog and he thinks she's just perfect, period.
Yeah, I heard about Ellen and her problems. I knew my sister-in-law very very well or I wouldn't have let her have him. And I think our Humane Society eventually found out but didn't seem to mind.
Oh, yeah, and he doesn't chew any more, hasn't for a long time.
A shelter dog, best she ever had. Neutered when we got him.
Sometimes I think about life without Sophie, and I cry too. She is in pain a lot of the time. She has good days and bad days. Yesterday, she was downright sprightly. Today, she just wants to be left alone to sleep on her favorite rug. She needs her Adequan shot and I will make the appointment today.
Thanks for caring so much. I appreciate that and so does The Queen.
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I hate hearing or seeing anything about animals being abused or killed. It breaks my heart.
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That was very difficult for me to read...
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I am constantly placing animals. It is very hard to do. And I am running out of good people.
Ya know, if their cat dies I call when a kitten comes in and they make take one. Then, I can't call them again for 15 years...
The people from the other countries are primarily the ones mistreating them be it ignorance or culture. Granted there are some HORRIBLE Americans with pets, what we see are people from other countries feeding their dogs rice and milk, dogs are lactose intolerant and rice has no protein. They have designer dogs but No money for shots... We try and educate them and have even sent articles to their newpapers.... But many people from other countries will not nueter as if it were their own testicles.
There are some Americans who want their kids "to see the beauty" of birth... as well as people form other countries, but they seem to windup in a box abandoned at our hospital and become my responsibility. It kills me.
Redneck America are another group that come in with their missing teeth and their puppies they are going to sell...
Where I am it is primarily folks from other countries. (Where you are it maybe different) And even the people, from those countries, I work with, are disgusted.
One family through an interupter told me they were getting rid of their dog. He is 9 months old. He is 32 pounds. NOW they decide they want a smaller one. So, they want US to find him a home.... Geez.... Then, they are getting a smaller one? Poor dog...
One of the Americans who comes in has 10 dogs he took from his Hondoras neighbor. The neighbor gets a dog, has no shots, no fence, lets them walk around the streets and may or may not feed them. They show up at Chester home who vets them, feeds them and takes them in. They have explained the LAW here and the neighbors do not care -- they just go and get another dog.
It is an act of love to get the pets spay or neutered.
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There is another way people get rid of their unwanted dogs. They just drive out into the country and dump the dog.
I know too many ranchers who when they see a dog, they shot it on sight. Dogs kill livstock like you wouldn't believe.
It's not really expensive to get your pets fixed. We got our bitch fixed just because we didn't want any more puppies. Yes they are cute but they grow up.
I have seen many ads for neutering for free.
There is a group here who captures wild cats, neuters them and then releases them. They have done this to over 700 in the last three years. The hard parts catching them.
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WE have done a lot of feral cats.
And people catch feral cats and bring them in for a spay/neuter. It does help cut the population. But just ONE cat that was let go in the woods behind us-- had about four kittens -- so now Betty, myself and two old women at the place next to us feed them.
Again - others create the problem and we fix it.
Yes, I know of dogs who come in abandoned at construction sites or dumped in the "country" thinking the farmers will take care of them....
It is horrible...
They are usually sick or injured
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A woman brought in one of the nicest and beautifully marked cats I have seen. She was dlh cream colored with pastel silver in the nicest places.
She had a broken pelvis -- it lools like someone beat her with a bat or kicked VERY hard. This woman now has her as an inside cat.
She had a big vet bill and yes, now she has the responsibility of someone elses problem.
Another woman, very poor, brought in a cat who was shot by a bebe gun. Nice cat named Lucas. He has such a horrible infection -- and yes he was dumped and she took him in.
Get your pets spayed or neutered
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We bought Sophie, our yellow lab, when she was 6 years old from a couple who had had her from a pup. Her grandfather was a national champion, Borador's Ridgeway Reflection. They stated that she was vicious and might harm their 22-month-old child. She is of show lab stock and shorter than a field lab, with heavier bones. Her ideal weight, which I am proud to say we have achieved, is about 65 lb. She weighed 110 lb. when we got her. God bless her heart. She figured out where she belonged in the household and took her position (as queen) graciously.
After 9/11, Mr. Garden and I were extremely stressed, as our son was at boot camp and refused to contact us, and we had no idea what would happen to him in this national emergency. Sophie would come over to us, use her front paws to push over if we were sitting on the floor, and curl herself around us as if we were her puppies, emitting anxioux little grunts of concern. Her warm pink tongue would lap our faces, her golden eyes filled with love and a desire to make things better for us.
When my son returned from the Navy, his child was beginning to walk. He used Sophie for a speed bump. She lapped his face, too.
Now to make a short story long, as I often do, Sophie was NOT spayed when we got her. She was too well fed, emotionally distraught, and aching in every bone for love and attention. And these people had the unmitigated audacity to ask us to contact them if we bred her, as they would like to have one of her puppies. They couldn't take care of the greatest dog I've ever met, that heart, that trust, that devotion, but they wanted one of her puppies? I got her spayed the first year.
Sophie is 14 now. She has bad arthritis in her hips and lumbar spine, at least partially from being overweight for several years before we got her. She can be crochety and demanding, needing her rear end picked up and set straight because she has neurological damage to her spine and sometimes can get her toes straightened out. But I do it without too much complaint. She would the same for me and more if she could.
When I don't have Sophie any more, I will contact our local animal shelters to see if they can get me another lab. She wasn't a puppy when we got her. She was house trained, and been to puppy school. She was smart and eager to please. She didn't chew shoes or furniture. She needed love and a place in the household. She has given us back more than we could ever give her, including gratitude, which most people don't show those who help them out.
If you want a dog, try a shelter or rescue before you look for a breeder. And stay away from those cursed pet stores that buy from puppy farms! We are trying to outlaw that particular brand of he11hole in Ohio.
WG
Spaying a female dog also cuts their chances for developing breast cancer, according to my vet.
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Tom Strange
Think before breeding with animals???
What is there to think about?
Why that's an abomination!!!
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How sad...
Like I've said before, how a society/culture treats it's animals is a measure of how it will eventually treat it's people...
I participate in my local ASPCA's TNR program for feral cats and it does work, and as an animal care specialist in the army, we have started to use this philosophy too.
How sad...what an embarassing failure we are as stewards of God's creation...
Some helpful links:
http://www.alleycat.org/
http://www.aspca.org/
http://www.hsus.org/
http://www.matthewscully.com/
http://www.americanhumane.org
http://www.animalsvoice.com/
http://www.ifaw.org
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Another success story....
My beloved aunt was lonely living alone and wondered if she could have a dog. I left Sophie with her and Sophie just sat by the door and whined until I returned. So when my son found a cat and we took it to the shelter, I ended up with a 2 year old neutered Llasa Apso named Sport,and he lived with my aunt for a while.
My aunt died two months after I got Sport. She was his third placement. He was a nervous little thing who chewed on anything that didn't bite back. I brought him home with me and for a while we had three dogs vying for food and attention. Sport at 12 lb, invariably won, staring down a Labrador retrievr who loves her chow.
Fast forward - my sister-in-law begged for him. It was a match made in heaven. She thinks he's the perfect dog and he thinks she's just perfect, period.
Yeah, I heard about Ellen and her problems. I knew my sister-in-law very very well or I wouldn't have let her have him. And I think our Humane Society eventually found out but didn't seem to mind.
Oh, yeah, and he doesn't chew any more, hasn't for a long time.
A shelter dog, best she ever had. Neutered when we got him.
WG
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ex70sHouston
Sign in front of the Vets office.
Dogs and Cats Neutered for $25.
Seniors for $15.
I'm not goin in there.
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Ham
When I first saw this thread up on the index board.. all the title that was displayed was "Please THINK! before breeding.."
truncated the rest..
I was expecting it to refer to certain people..
maybe it should..
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Tom Strange
aint that the truth WG? ...that's why I always recommend www.petfinders.com
it's the best!
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Dot Matrix
I am crying about Sophie
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Dot,
Sometimes I think about life without Sophie, and I cry too. She is in pain a lot of the time. She has good days and bad days. Yesterday, she was downright sprightly. Today, she just wants to be left alone to sleep on her favorite rug. She needs her Adequan shot and I will make the appointment today.
Thanks for caring so much. I appreciate that and so does The Queen.
WG
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Tom Strange
error correct: that should be www.petfinder.com (singular)
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