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Originally Posted by BIG_DADDY
OK Mr. Country I've lived way out there before and the only dogs we had issues with were wild ones. Naturally you are dealing with abandoned pits, why doesn't that surprise me?  Any stray dog messing with livestock would be shot. That's what were talking about here. Also living way out in the country many have outside dogs that would not make good pets anyway and need to be put down for various reasons. That being said NONE of what you posted had anything to do with this story at all. Even the most hard core here like MO would most likely tell you if he liked a dog enough to make it a house dog he would at least make some effort to try and find it a new home. A good dog is different than any other animal. It will put it's life on the line for you and love you like no other animal in the world. For that reason alone IMO a good dog has earned the right to be treated a little different than all the rest of the animals. In this case it was even worse. He took his kids dog they loved and didn't take any time to find it a good home. It's not hard at all. I could take any decent dog on a street corner here and put up a sign that says free to a good loving home and have the animal placed within and hour then let the kids see it went to a good place. I guess the kids freaking doesn't mean anything to you either. Frankly dealing with them and their legitimate beef is going to be 10x more difficult than it would have been to just place the dog. |
We deal with abandoned dogs all the time...pits are the most recent issue cause the owners who are such great dog lovers wont take them to be neutered under the new laws in KC. So there humanitarians turn the damn things loose and drive off...no doubt heartbroken over their pets fate.
We see beagles...one of the worst as a wild dog, collies...they dont last to long, have seen even a couple pretty Irish setters among every cross bred thing you can imagine.
You make an interesting comment...outside dogs dont make good pets? Man, I love that...somehow an outside dog is not a good pet. I have 2 great dogs that have never and will never be in the house. I suppose they are bad dogs and poor pets?
The real point of that "story" aside from trying to drag out some deep feelings of animal love, really is that People should have more feelings for people. The world would be a better place if people treated people as good as they treat a dog. The kids learned that family and family needs come first over any needs man placed on that dog. Sure they would be upset, we are all upset when something like this needs to be done.
I love these people who complain about cost of freaking health care while they drag another smoke out and drive the damn dog to the vet.
Dogs are great. But a dog at the end of the day is a dog.