01-06-2010, 04:55 PM
Sorry Dan, but looking at the damage strays did to Pam L. sheep flock, I'm not gonna agree with you. Even if there are gullible people that will adopt the one dog that was found right after dumping, far more dogs will starve to death, get ripped up by a pig, or will turn on other animals, (including other peoples pets). The slim chance at the pound (with a quick death guarantee) would have been better than the slim chance of someone being there right at the time of dumping ( with a great chance of a horrible & painful death....)
We met the dog on New Years. Has some training & seemed very able to be around groups of people. Happy tail wagging personality. Not bothered by people coming & going. But it was starved, literally skin & bones (like the pictures that make you want to look away), had a wide collar abrasion around the neck & had some scarring on the ears & flanks. The dog had actually run quite a distance trying to catch up to the pick up that had dumped it....and was still tryinig to catch up when rescued...
From talking to the rescuers & seeing again today, most likely the dog has little to no hearing & good chance it was hit (flinches when hand/arms move quickly near it, but not with any other quick motion....)
I do know when I was a growing up in hunting lands outside of Chicago, there was an influx of "hunting type" dogs (mostly goldens & labs) abandoned in our area during hunting season. Many of the ones found had been city pets that went missing out of peoples yards weeks before.
A few times the dumpers were caught in the act, an most of those were people that had taken a city dog for hunting & found it to be pretty useless & dumped it. Not saying this was the case, but the dog acts very similar to the way those poor strays did.
We met the dog on New Years. Has some training & seemed very able to be around groups of people. Happy tail wagging personality. Not bothered by people coming & going. But it was starved, literally skin & bones (like the pictures that make you want to look away), had a wide collar abrasion around the neck & had some scarring on the ears & flanks. The dog had actually run quite a distance trying to catch up to the pick up that had dumped it....and was still tryinig to catch up when rescued...
From talking to the rescuers & seeing again today, most likely the dog has little to no hearing & good chance it was hit (flinches when hand/arms move quickly near it, but not with any other quick motion....)
I do know when I was a growing up in hunting lands outside of Chicago, there was an influx of "hunting type" dogs (mostly goldens & labs) abandoned in our area during hunting season. Many of the ones found had been city pets that went missing out of peoples yards weeks before.
A few times the dumpers were caught in the act, an most of those were people that had taken a city dog for hunting & found it to be pretty useless & dumped it. Not saying this was the case, but the dog acts very similar to the way those poor strays did.
