Just who is one supposed to contact in Elk County when somebody dumps a litter of puppies and their momma? Evidently not the sheriff, as the sheriff's office was called on August 10th and it is now five days later. So, who do you call? The puppies and their momma are still faithfully waiting on that a-hole that dumped them to come back for them. I hate to see the little puppies euthanized, and I hate to see them die of starvation. In my opinion, the a-hole that dumped them there ought to get one of those two choices rather than the puppies.
Any ideas who to contact? The momma and puppies are real friendly.
I have no idea, Marcia. I hate that. I wish I was in the position to do something, but I am not. Call the sheriff's office again. It was our job when I was in that position to take care of problems. Keep calling until either the dogs disappear or the sheriff's office comes and gets them.
Sigh, every day people get worse and worse, cold hearted and cruel. I like my critters more than people now days.
Seriously if i could get more remote i probably would.
My biggest problem with people is these ass* that will just run over a animal because its there. One of my angoras escaped one day while i was gone, and some a**hole ran her down on the side of the road. She wasn't in the road she was in the ditch. and they went into the ditch to run her down.
Oh, gosh, srkruzich. That is so sad, but I know people will do that.
Marcia, I don't know if the sheriff's office took care of those dogs or not, but I did hear on the scanner that they had a dog and would the dispatcher call Julia, the vet, and see if she could hold it for them. Don't know if it was the same thing that you reported or not.
I am such an animal lover that I totally hate going to a pet store and seeing all those puppies and kittens for sale. Breaks my heart and I want to just take everyone of them home. But then my big dog would not tolerate having so many animals around. He is so spoiled and he hates, hates cats. Have to keep him leashed when he is outside in the front or the neighbors cats would be history.
Quote from: Janet Harrington on August 16, 2010, 11:09:32 PM
he hates, hates cats. .
That's the basic sign of a good dog. Do you have another german shepard?
Quote from: Janet Harrington on August 16, 2010, 11:09:32 PM
Oh, gosh, srkruzich. That is so sad, but I know people will do that.
Marcia, I don't know if the sheriff's office took care of those dogs or not, but I did hear on the scanner that they had a dog and would the dispatcher call Julia, the vet, and see if she could hold it for them. Don't know if it was the same thing that you reported or not.
I am such an animal lover that I totally hate going to a pet store and seeing all those puppies and kittens for sale. Breaks my heart and I want to just take everyone of them home. But then my big dog would not tolerate having so many animals around. He is so spoiled and he hates, hates cats. Have to keep him leashed when he is outside in the front or the neighbors cats would be history.
A friend of mine has to constantly remind me to not get attached to livestock. (talkign about my goats) but you know goats have such a personality and they interact like pets.
I will hunt for food and food only but have a hard time doing it. When you kill an animal you take all that they have, this life, which doesn't continue on after death. So killing them to just kill them is IMO unforgivable.
You might think Janet has a bad case of animal love. I won't even look at the pet section of the newspaper where they run pictures of pets up for adoption. I can't have another animal either. Bud won't tolerate another one, be it cat or dog. Right after I moved over here, Janet brought her big German Shepherd in and Bud was going to take him apart. Fortunately, Janet intervened in time. That might be why her dog hates cats now.
Elk county doesn't have a "no kill" animal shelter? I'm with all of you as far as animals go. Some have much better personalities than humans. I'm also very much for spay and neuter. I mean for the animals, but there are some humans....
I was sort of surprised by this. Living in a large urban area, the county maintains many animal shelters and sponsers "rescue animals" and does testing on dead animals or those that are so ill or old that need to be euthanized. There are pet stores all around who either sell animals or have days when a support group of some sort will bring animals to the store for customers to adopt. R.A.M.B.O came from a pet store that only sold "rescue dogs". I know it is a ripoff as these people go to the animal shelter and pay little or no money to get the animal and all of it shots and then take them back to the store and sell them for a lot of money. But hey, I am happy (sometimes) with the dog, and I am sure if he thought about it, he would be happier than he already is. Too bad the county doesn't designate someone to handle these cases, maybe on a part time basis.
Larryj
The city of Howard could sur improve in animal control. When I lived in Howard there were large bands of stray cats that roamed from house to house where they knew they would be fed. I had a little dog that would ocassionally run. People would make up stories that the dog catcher waws going to get him. The city had no dog catcher. At that time it was up to the only police officer to address a dog problem. Many times day and night dogs would be roaming.
Marcia I would contact the Humane Society in Wichita and see if they would do anything.
I know when I finally get moved to Moline, this is a cause I would be interested in. Has there ever been a shelter there? Is there a community interest in how to deal more humanely with this in the county. My dogs cannot be around cats either, they are very aggressive toward them. I still had an old, not very friendly cat when I got two of my dogs. She attacked my lab head on and just terrorized her. Scratched up her ears and face and cut her eye, which cost me $75.00. I can't really blame my dogs for their attitude. Anyway, it breaks my heart as well to see the effect of human irresponsibiliity toward the animals.
My dog would terrorize cats all day and I tried and tired to get her to stop. My wife had a cat though so when we got married and got a house we had to keep them separated. Finally one day I decided to show her who's boss and to leave the cat alone, now they get along pretty well. They like to pretend they still don't get along but my wife has caught them sleeping together.
Her dog on the other hand... that don't will not learn. She doesn't necessary try hurting the cat or anything but she absolutely pesters the crap out of the cat. Its been getting better but she still has some learning to do.
On topic, I absolutely hate seeing animals abused like that. My wife has been seeing that a lot lately with her job and its just sad what people can do to animals. Sure... if the thing was attacking you or something but to treat an animal poorly that is so loving is just sick. She's even seen a rescued dog that is just one the kindest dogs she's been around... it had to have both eyes removed due to abuse, yet it is still a very loving dog regardless of what had happened.
Howard has, at times, kept stray animals down by the water plant. Jim has also rescued some dogs and we've kept them until the owners found them.
Quote from: mtcookson on August 17, 2010, 02:17:25 PM
On topic, I absolutely hate seeing animals abused like that. My wife has been seeing that a lot lately with her job and its just sad what people can do to animals. Sure... if the thing was attacking you or something but to treat an animal poorly that is so loving is just sick. She's even seen a rescued dog that is just one the kindest dogs she's been around... it had to have both eyes removed due to abuse, yet it is still a very loving dog regardless of what had happened.
I would definately lose it if someone hurt one of my pets. They had better give their soul to God cause their ass would be mine.
Quote from: Mom70x7 on August 17, 2010, 02:21:53 PM
Howard has, at times, kept stray animals down by the water plant. Jim has also rescued some dogs and we've kept them until the owners found them.
I've done rescues but it gets overwhelming. I had to stop. it just takes too much of a toll on you.
Right now, i have 3 rescues that i kept. Buddy was nailed to a tree and escaped, Spicy was dumped 3 times at the pound by people who were just plain irresponsible and cruel before she came to me, and then joe was found north of me by a couple, he was apparantly dumped (pure breed schnauzer) and i took him in. Joe is special in that 2 months before i got him, i lost my schnauzer Gkar, and Joe looks identicle to him... Sometimes i call him Gkar by mistake. Often wonder if he is gkar come back sometimes. Then i have londo another schnauzer i bought and then tigger.
QuoteI've done rescues but it gets overwhelming. I had to stop. it just takes too much of a toll on you.
It does.
That's why I have 3 dogs now. Since I have a fenced yard, I have gotten a number of strays into the yard, closed the gates and gotten info off their collars. So far I have done well at getting them back to owners. One day a really nice dog with no ID came along. I had to leave but called the dog catcher and asked if they would come and get him. He said I would have to turn him loose because they could not come in my yard to get him even with my permission. I was leaving town, felt really bad, but opened the gates and said a prayer. I so hope something good happened for him.
Quote from: Sarge on August 17, 2010, 06:29:27 AM
That's the basic sign of a good dog. Do you have another german shepard?
No, but this one is still capable of breeding.
Marcia, did you find out if they picked up the dog and her puppies?
Tim called the sheriff's office again on the 17th (a week after his first phone call to them). A deputy was supposedly going to go pick them up. I did not see them yesterday, but I forgot to look until I had already passed that portion of the route.
some people can be so hateful. I moved to this town from Howard with my little buddy. Everything seemed to be okay
here. Then one day I had my dog outside for a little bit and decided to go out and check on him. I found him laying against
the side of the house. Found out later my neighbors dog came over in my yard and attacked him. At the same time some
kid came by on a 4-wheeler and drove through my yard and hit him. I took him to Julias where he died on the table.I was
heartbroken.He had been with me when my parents passed away and never left my side. I got a little min-pin now.We
go walking everyday plus car rides before I go to work in the afternoon. He is like a little boy too me and I make sure
now he never leaves my sight.If something happens like this too me again somebody is going to get hurt real bad.
Someone poisoned my dog earlier this year so I won't get another dog but I did bring home a male cat. Since I live on four acres and not close to a street he stays outside and now I have been feeding four cats, this afternoon my nieghbor called and said someone had dumped off two very small kittens on the street so now I am feeding six cats. The kittens are in the house until I can get Charlie used to them and then they will go outside also. These kittens are very friendly and will be going to the vet as soon as they are big enough for spaying or neutering along with Charlie. The cute little brindle female that I am feeding will be going as soon as I can get her to come to me. I have been feeding her for about three months but still can't pet her.
Going out of town on vacation soon and will have a friend come by every day to feed all of them. I will be going to her house to feed her dogs and clean up after them while she is on vacation.
While I was talking to my neighbor about the kittens she told me about the fox they have seen leaving my yard and going across their driveway to the woods. They have seen it up by their house also. Had to quit feeding the cats on the front porch because I heard a noise on the porch one night and turned the porch light on and there were two coons looking for leftover cat food. I make sure there isn't left out now.
Ms Bear, when I was in school, we had an old kitty living on the porch. I had fixed her a house that was well insulated and lined with a goatskin ('scuse the expression Steve), rug. She was happy with the setup, and since our inside kitty would not let her in the house that is the way it was. That winter, I worked a 3:30 to 7:30 AM shift so that I could be in class by 8:20 AM. That meant I had to get up at 2:00 to get ready for the day and I always fed Missy cat before I left. Suddenly Missy seemed to be eating a tremendous amount of food, so I started watching after I set out the food for the day. Soon I saw a young o'possum ambling down the porch stairs dragging part of his anatomy; it had been hit with a car or dogs had got 'hold of him. I fed that silly o'possum all winter, it got so when I turned on the porchlight he was setting on a little barrel I had out there to use as a table, waiting for his breakfast. Come spring though it was gone, can't say I missed it, but did wonder what ever happened to it. They say there is a sucker born every minute, guess I am one.
I'd have liked to have seen that possum sitting on the barrel. Living out in the country the way we did, we always had a passel of cats of various ages around. Mom had a very soft heart and she would feed big pie plates of Purina Cat Chow in one plate and a big blob of wet food in another on the terrace just outside the back kitchen door. It wasn't unusual to have young skunks and possums encircling the plates along with the kittens. When she would bang on the plate and call, ya never knew what would come running!
When we moved to Sedgwick County we took one cat with us. When my husband died 6 years ago, I took 28 cats to the Humane Society because I couldn't take care of them and couldn't afford to feed them. Daughter was coming every day just to feed the cats. We started trapping them in a live trap and a pet carrier. When it got down to just the wild ones left, we stopped feeding, picked up the pans, stopped putting out water and the rest of the cats disappeared. I don't know how many of the neighbor's cats we hauled off.
During the 24 years that he was feeding the whole neighborhood, he was also feeding possums, skunks and whatever else was brave enough to come in. The skunks we couldn't do much about, but he could catch the possums and this he did. Then we would relocate them after dark. One night we had taken the possum to one of the drop off places, always close to water, and while he was releasing the possum, I was hearing chickens. Upon investigation we found that someone had either dropped off a bunch of young hens or they had fallen off in transport. Since the ice chest that they had been in seemed to be propped up to provide some shelter, I think that the young hens had been dropped. I forget how many there were, but since we already had a cage with us, we picked them up. They were tame, easy to handle. We took them home and gave them shelter in the hen house, which was sheltering only stored junk at the time. This was in October. On Christmas Day, one of them presented us with an egg. The rest of that winter we had all the eggs that we could use or give away. They were the nicest hens possible. I think someone had wanted to raise chickens, then realized how much space they needed and how much care they required. Instead of taking them to the Humane Society, they just dropped them off in the country. Fortunately for the hens and for us, we found them before the varmints did.
Those hens were grateful and eggs was the only way they could pay you back. Eggcellent story!
We have had chickens, they laid plenty of eggs until we started going fishing for days at a time and had friends that would come feed them and keep the eggs. They would quit laying, as soon as we came home and the back door was slamming as we went in and out they would start laying again.
We had goats, from one to many. When we had just one she didn't know she was a goat and would come in the house and go in the bathroom or get on my bed to look at herself in the mirror. As soon as we got some more and she had her first baby she was happy in the pasture. The billy would eat with the horse and wouldn't eat with the goats. The horse wouldn't eat if the billy goat wasn't waiting by her stall.
The pig was probably my favorite, she was huge and after my husband died she would get out of the pen and lay under the fig tree for me to get home. When I pulled in the yard she would walk out to the car and then follow me to the shed to get her food and then follow me to the pen and go in the gate. She never let me see where she got out at. I had to let her go and I still really miss her.
One of the cows had watched the kids climb the fence and she figured out how to pull it down and then step over it. Made sure I was watching her when she did it so I would come out and give her some attention. She had to have a cup of dog food with her food or she would kick whichever dog got near her.
I LOVE those kind of stories. I was born and raised on a farm and the saying is true.."you can take the girl out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the girl" !!!!
Ny little dog weighs 13 pounds. He was probably dumped by someone when he was about a year old. He ended up running around at the House of Rocks in Kansas City, Kansas. This is a store that sells all kinds of rocks. He was chasing cars and keeping away from all humans except the Mexican workers who threw sandwiches to him to eat. Animal control was called twice but they could not catch him either time. A lady who owned four dogs managed to lure him with food, and my friend Jim rescued him. Jim took him to a dog groomer in Lawrence and he was dipped twice to get all the fleas off him. Then Jim called me and said "I have a dog for you." I drove 1 1/2 hours to get him. I took him to Sonic for a burger on the way home. Have had him six years now and what a friend I have.
I grew up with 1 dog as a kid, got my first one at age 12, and had him for 18 years though he lived with mom and dad til he had to be put to sleep. He was totally deaf, and blind and arthritis got so bad that dad had to take him in to put him to sleep.
But since 1995 i have had many dogs. Usually 3 -5 at a time, and most of them rescues. I have three rescues right now though they are getting older now. :( The hardest part is having to lose them. I keep saying i am not going to get anymore after these guys go.
Once i take in one, they live with me til they die. I make a comitment to keep them in a forever home.
I do have my favorites.
And if anyone were to hurt any of them, i would hurt whoever did so. I do not tolerate abuse or cruelty at all. These guys are my kids, since all of my 2 legged ones are grown.