Throw Away Pets

[AB4D]

Eddie,

Sorry to hear about the misfortune with your dog. When I was young, I was attacked by a neighbor's dog on my way home from grade school. The dog came out of its yard and across the street to get to me. To this day I still don't know what set her off. Just one of those things I guess.

I hope everything works out ok.

Jim

 

[riptides]

Yep!

Our free dogs, adoption routine and all that.....

Ended up costing me 1000 bucks for spay/neuter and RFID implants.

Sheesh, but at least most of the money went back to the shelters!

-Mike Z. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[scott_vt]

Mornin Eddie,
Very sorry to here about that incident!!! Looks like Stephs son is OK, but Im sure he is just a little apprehensive about dogs at the moment /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif Hopefully he will heal very soon and regain his confidence with mans best friend. Best of luck with whatever happens!

scotty

 

[Sigarms]

Can anyone guess which two dogs were taken in and looking for a good home?

Point is abandoned dogs can make great family pets.

 

[MadDog]

Fur sure. We got our Newfie (he's about 80% Newfie but got on the German Shepherds' line when they were handing out feet /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif ) from a shelter in New Haven, Ct. they thought that he'd been abandoned and wandering around on his own for a couple of months and since he was about a year and a half, his prospects for adoption weren't the best.

Been with us over 10 years, now. The ultimate "good sole" without a mean bone in him. At 100+# he looks formidable, though.

 

[EastTexFrank]

Eddie,
I'm sorry to hear about what happened. Dogs are strange creatures. There's no telling what will set them off sometimes. Our three are all pound puppies and and we've never had any problems with any of them. My S-I-L though runs a small boarding kennel and one of her customers brings in a lab. Just a typical lab ... tail wagging, face licking friendly ol' lab but the owner warned her not to rub it's stomach because it will bite. He said that even he can't do it but otherwise it's the friendliest dog in the world. My S-I-L, being my S-I-L had to find out for herself and guess what? ... he was right. You can do anything you want to the animal, just don't rub his stomach. Have you ever heard of a dog that didn't like it's stomach rubbed? With dogs you never can tell.

 

[Bird]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( my S-I-L had to find out for herself )</font>

Sounds like me. Our neighbors down in the country, who also quickly became our best friends, had a big old shaggy friendly mixed breed female dog. They wanted to take her to town to a vet, but said the only way they'd ever been able to do it was to get her into their stock trailer because she'd bite you if you tried to put a collar on her. So, like your sister-in-law, I called her to me, and put a collar on her while she sat there calmly and the neighbors sat there watching with their mouths open. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[40Kchicks]

We have had on incident that really surprised me. My neighbor came over on his ATV one day. He is always teasing the dogs, telling them to bite the tires. The dogs always run with the ATV’s. We were sitting there talking and he asked to borrow something from the shed so we hopped on the ATV’s and rode down to the shop. When he went to start the ATV our young dog reached up and bit his leg hard. I believe that the neighbor got the dog all excited to the point instinct took over. I feel terrible and hope this never happens again. He has never bit before or after. This is a case of when a dog took teasing wrong so we will be more careful. If it happens again that will be the last thing he does.

Eric

 

[Sigarms]

Events like these should tell everyone that even if you let your dog "roam" wherever they like, you should at least have them up to date on all shots and tags stating so (particularly if you have had the dog since it was a puppy).

I realize that it's probably wishful thinking because if the animal is up to date on all of it's shots and tags, you would think that they would also have identification.

I do wonder sometimes who is actually smarter.

 

[MadDog]

Yeah, EastTex, with dogs, like everyone else (including women /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif ) you gotta get to know 'em and no two are quite alike.

Like, for example, our lab loves to have her ears stroked; just goes into extacy. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif But stroke my wife's ears; she could care less. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

...go figure. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif