This time of the year people from town come out and dump unwanted cats on back roads.
Cats are everywhere you look out here every spring. Ten miles from town.
I was at work years ago. A young girl adopted a large mixed breed dog. Over the next week she came to work telling everyone about the dog ripping her furniture to shreds while she was at work. (Rented furniture)
Then it tore up here bed. She came back to work on a Monday and told us she took the dog out to the country and let it loose (dumped it). She said some Farmer will take care of it.
I was fuming but at work, so I had to be civil.
I said to her that I live out in the country. I told her dog will go without food for about a week then start killing a farmer's chickens and get shot or join other dumped dogs and create a pack that kills young newborn cattle.
At some point she started crying and I said I'm sorry but that's reality.
She painted a picture in her mind of the dog having a good life on the farm.
My boss later told me that you told her the truth. He said he was pissed off about what she said but he couldn't speak up.
People watch too much TV. Lassie
Years ago a lady up the road had several dogs and at the least two had litters. She moved and left the whole pack. They turned wild and rampaged the area for several months.
I had young kids, all these mixed breed dogs had some pit bull mixed in them.
I started picking them off sitting on my pond leve. Someone called the sheriff on me. He walked up on me and asks me what I was shooting.
I said dogs and told him the situation. Then told him there was a dead dog that I shot about 250 feet over in the weeds. We walked over and looked. The dog had mange and was emaciated. He shook his head and told me to do what you have to do. He left and stopped at a house down the road. So, I knew who complained. That pack of dogs became dangerous. The sheriff seen the pit bull mix in the kill. There wasn't animal control here then, and thirty years later we are still our only animal control.
I get no joy from killing anything.
Not as many predators keeping racoons' and other critter populations in check anymore.
I let a couple Ferrel cats hang around but have to thin them out.
I have a pet cat.
I'm not anti-pit bull but the wild pack had to go.
Some people could read some of the posts on this thread and not understand why animals need to be thinned out. (Blood thirsty killers)
I have concern that some virus will develop in sick overpopulated animals. Rabies on steroids!
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