Mare, you sound just like me when it comes to the strays! I have picked up some that have brought everything imaginable into my house. At one point I even had to haul 10 dogs to the vet and two kids to the pediatrician for wingworm all from a little kitten picked up on the side of the road. And now we have Micah who was suppose to have been here only temporary, but so far no home to be found and he is starting to get very food agressive around the other dogs. This morning he attacked poor Pepper (with the bad back!) So I know exactly how you feel....yet we keep doing it over and over, lol Marsha
Do not tell God how big your storm is. Tell the storm how big your God is. ----- Original Message ----- From: ~~MARE~~ To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 1:22 AM Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] Memoir Of MY Auction Experience Heather That is so great that you are going to think of rescuing some of them. That makes me so very happy. Boy I got myself into another pickle. I saw some little kittens on the highway so I thought I would bring them home and find them a home too. Well so I risked getting poison ivy to chase them down before they were hit by a passing car. There were 7 and I was able to get 4. I brought them home and locked them in a big rabbit cage I have. Well one got out and my terrier killed it. It has broke my heart. So I put them on Freecycle and no one has even offered one a home. So to keep the other 3 safe I asked a animal rescue here and they say they don't take cats ! So I asked the animal shelter...he said $20 a piece to leave them ! So I called the humane society...they say because they weren't strays I have to pay also. I just don't know what to do. I have been in tears all day cause I am so scared my dogs will kill another one! Please pray someone gives them a home soon ! Love,Mare -------Original Message------- From: Heather Ferrier Date: 08/01/07 07:57:17 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] Memoir Of MY Auction Experience I'm so sorry that you had to experience that, but at the same time, i'm sure Star and the other one (i forgot her name...sorry) are soo glad you were there. I've experienced this before, and i know that some dogs my friend has bought in the past were from the amish. they came completely unsocialized, they were mean and nasty, didnt have names (even though they were 5 yrs old) and were in poor health in general. of all their strict rules and guidelines, i guess animal care isnt one of them. i'm sure not all amish are like that, but these few talked about today sure do bring a bad name to them huh? i also know that breed wise, what you see isnt always what you get. (i think i live in the puppy mill capital of the world, and dog auctions are a weekly and very common thing, along with small animal swap meets, which are just as bad) I have several friends who have been to auctions and all of them have come home sickened.& nbsp; not only are they awful places to be, but there are a lot of mixed dogs going as purebred. at one auction a friend went looking for a cavalier puppy and came home talking about 'lab sized' cavaliers, at another auction a different friend went looking for a shihtzu female and came home talking about one kennel she knew personally who raised shihtzus and pugs, trying to pass a mix of the two off as a pure shihtzu. of course they come with papers, so most assume thats a sure thing that they are pure, but it isnt, as we all know. anyway, i'm gonna see if i cant get my hubby involved and attempt my own rescue mission at the next auction. which im sure theres one saturday somewhere close by. love and blessings Heather ~~MARE~~ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This auction is held in a white cement block style building owned by an Amish family. There are cars and lots of trucks parked outside with dog crates galore in the back of them. There are also quite a lot of the tractors the Amish folk use for transportation since it is their belief not to drive automobiles. On the outside of this building there must have been about 30 igloo style dog houses waiting to be sold. There are three doors leading in...one to the left leads to where the buyers sit and bid from an assortment of odd colors and styles of old office chairs and folding chairs. In the back is a teeny dirty looking restroom and a snack bar where they can buy cold pop and homemade Amish noodles. The door to the right leads to a horrendous site. It leads to where these poor suffering animals are shoved into wire cages two high around the perimeter of the room and then single high all over the rest of the room. The cages are big enough to shove two medium dogs in or 1 poor large. The bottom of the pens is covered with shredded paper. That is what the animals must defecate in. NONE of them had water. One poor little Shitzu puppy begged and begged me for water...I asked them please to give him a drink...I don't think he got one. They have their own "vet" that examines the dogs and marks down.bad teeth,loose knee,skin dosease and whatever. He is fat and dirty looking to me. Then when you go on around the building to the right there is a big wide open door when the folks leave their dogs and pick them up after they pay. So then at 9:04 the sale starts and for about an hour they sell assorted cages,crates,pens,collars.leashes and what not. Then the first dogs are brought out on the 'stage'. This setup is about 3 of those 6 foot long folding tables and then the auctioneer sits like in a 'pulpit'. They have the younger Amish children oh from 16 on down to about 5 years old bring the dogs to the tables. They always hold them up so the bidders can see if their testicles are dropped and all that sickening junk. The poor poor animals do not know what is going on...a lot of loud noise and folks poking and prodding on them and then they get shoved in a pen again. When they have them on the tables the auctioneer will call out the details on each one....she's a free whelper...she had 7 puppies last time...this one's been running with a male and most likely is bred.Then he calls out the registry of the dog that is being sold. When you pay out they have a table across the room where the dogs have been being kept...you have to pay and sign to get the registration papers,then go around to the big wide open door and then they will go fetch the poor dogs for the people who bought them. It is disgusting to me and it takes an 'iron will' to sit there and not be found out as a 'rescuer' but I will do it as long as I think there might be one I could save, Mare~ "As the deer pants for the streams of water, so my soul pants for you o Lord" Psalm 42:1 Check out our new website!! www.roundthecrosscanines.com
