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[LHF2019]

One of my customers that has a farm found a horse in their cattle pasture. Figured had to be abandoned there after being unable to find an owner.

 

[Eagle1]

I have trouble buying this premise. Are there really that many people abandoning their dogs at farms?

My extended family owned a few area farms when I was growing up, and finding boxes of kittens left overnight was common, but I can't remember anyone ever leaving a dog.

Man's best friend?

Enough to be noticed out in the middle of nowhere. We have 3 that were dumped now, hauled/chased a bunch off over the years, that did not fit here and had to shoot a few. No local pound and the next county shelter wants $50 to drop one off.
I say we average of 3 a year but had up to a litter of 7 with mom sitting in the road.
Now retired, the Anatolians won't let them in the driveway so our exposure to them has dropped, but coyotes still eat.

We also used to find a stray horse or cow now and then, and quite a few domestic geese and duck have made their home on the pond uninvited.

 

[Tinhack]

One of my customers that has a farm found a horse in their cattle pasture. Figured had to be abandoned there after being unable to find an owner.

Animals (cattle, horses, dogs, cats, hogs, etc., etc., etc.) will go wherever there's a likelihood of food. One year, five of my neighbor's cows climbed over a fallen tree to get to my side of the fence. I wish I could have gotten that on video. I guess the other hundred or so weren't hungry enough.

 

[WinterDeere]

We have 3 that were dumped now...

I had to get rid of a dog once, when my work/life schedule changed, and I wasn't able to properly care for it anymore. I took it to the ASPCA, who promised me they'd have no trouble re-homing it. But 20+ years later, it's still one of the things that really bothers me every time I remember it... and the damn dog's probably been dead for 10 years now!

I think there has to be something mentally defective about anyone who'd just dump a dog, without making sure it's able to go to a good home.

Our local ASPCA makes customers sign a contract stating they will take the dog back there, if they ever need to re-home it. Even if you already have a new owner agreeing to take it, they want to process them through their system, which I guess may just be one way they keep track of abuse and other issues. That's why I went back through them in the one case I had to do it, as that dog originally came to me through the ASPCA.

 

[Eagle1]

I had to get rid of a dog once, when my work/life schedule changed, and I wasn't able to properly care for it anymore. I took it to the ASPCA, who promised me they'd have no trouble re-homing it. But 20+ years later, it's still one of the things that really bothers me every time I remember it... and the damn dog's probably been dead for 10 years now!

I think there has to be something mentally defective about anyone who'd just dump a dog, without making sure it's able to go to a good home.

Our local ASPCA makes customers sign a contract stating they will take the dog back there, if they ever need to re-home it. Even if you already have a new owner agreeing to take it, they want to process them through their system, which I guess may just be one way they keep track of abuse and other issues. That's why I went back through them in the one case I had to do it, as that dog originally came to me through the ASPCA.

I'm with you once I have one, they stay for life or find a place they fit. We still have the mom of that litter in the road, pain in the butt little dog but she has been here 14-15 years.

 

[kenmbz]

We had packs of wild/domestic dogs on my uncles property in MA.
It was really sad, and somewhat dangerous for us as they would start going feral and hunt in packs.

 

[masscity]

Back when I was married we lived in a township west of Detroit. Everyone had an acre or more. There was a pack of dogs 5-6 that would run through the neighborhood every morning. They would tear up your trash on pickup day.

We didn't use trash cans, somebody told me just spray your trash with ammonia. Never had a problem with my trash.

One day I noticed my neighbor was at his side door with a BB gun.

 

[QRTRHRS]

My previous property was on a dead end road as is my current place. At the former, I was working in a wooded corner next to the road. I noticed a green pickup go by that I did not recognize but at the moment, thought little of it. A few minutes later, the same truck comes back out followed shortly by a small mutt running after the truck obviously. Rot in hadies you sob, I thought to myself.

We took the dog in long enough to find her a home. Small dogs tend to be easier to rehome.

Still have a male cat that was dumped in 2008. Super friendly so we had him nuetered and kept him.

We sold that property to someone that ran a 501C horse rescue. About three miles away where our county bordered another, local trash would dump trash and animals including horses which the rescue rehomed.

There was a GSD dumped there that would hide out in a 24" drain pipe that ran under the road. I crawed through the pipe to push the dog out to a rescue group that rehomed the dog with a family with several sons.

Turning an animal over to rescue is not immoral. Dumping them along the road is.

 

[WinterDeere]

You just reminded me of a cat that adopted me about 25 years ago. My buddies and I were hanging out around the back yard fire pit, grilling and drinking, when this cat suddenly appears and sits down like he was invited to the party.

One of my buddies must have fed him, because the next day he was back, sitting by my back door and driving my dog batty. I'm allergic to cats and my dog was NOT going to be friendly to a cat, so I couldn't take him in. But it was October and nights were getting cold, so I set up my dog's carrier with blankets and towels, and put him in there at night to stay warm, while I ran an add in the local paper looking for a home and started feeding the thing.

It was actually a great cat, one of the few I've actually liked, probably since it acted more like a dog than a cat. In any case, someone called, saying they'd just moved to PA from Michigan and had to leave their cat behind. Their kids really wanted another cat, so they'd be happy to take it.

They had to borrow my dog carrier to get it home, which as a poor mid-20's something just starting a new job after a month out of work, made me nervous it would never come back. But they brought the carrier back a few days later, told me the cat settled right in with their family, and all was good.

 

[Oaktree]

You just reminded me of a cat that adopted me about 25 years ago. My buddies and I were hanging out around the back yard fire pit, grilling and drinking, when this cat suddenly appears and sits down like he was invited to the party.

Had something like that happen to me in the early 90s. Was out for a walk, about a mile from home and saw this (adult) white cat sitting on a rock in somebody's yard. Just for fun I called out "hey, white cat!". Well wouldn't you know this cat came tearing across of the yard, ran up to me meowing and rubbing against me all excited to see me. It followed me home, walked right in the front door like it'd lived there all its life. Never seen a cat do that before. I'm thinking it was dumped, not a stray since it seemed well fed. Funny thing is, this cat was kind of aloof towards most people.
Always been a cat person anyway, and this was one of the best I've ever had. Had it close to 18 years before I had to put it down.