Re: OT - Need to vent about 'rescued' dog

[catatonya]

Hey Julie,

Yeah, I learned this the hard way too. At least now we know. It's a shame there have to be 'people' like this in the world to deal with.

tonya

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Dear Tonya,

Yeah, the 'school of hard knocks' is pretty much how I've learned
everything; I'm sorry that this time it worked out so badly and Haney is
the one who's suffering for it. I'll never admit to having an animal
again; you're absolutely right and I so wish I had handled it differently.
At least I know where he is and can keep tabs and after a bit of time goes
by, he might just get off his chain and go missing again. It's happened
before.......

Julie





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Julie,


I'm so sorry this happened, and I'm so sorry for Haney, but you've learned
a VALUABLE les! son..... I never say I have the dog.... I ask around saying I
saw the dog or cat but don't commit to actually having it... Or I'll say my
'friend' has it. Or I'll say I have it, but when I talk to them if they
sound like an asshole I'll say it got away, whatever.... I've been down
that road before. My modus operandi (sp??) now is that if the animal's in
bad shape I'm especially careful because unless the animal escaped from a
wonderful home.... it's not going back. And if it's not spayed or
neutered,,,, probably not a wonderful home to begin with.


All I can say is you know where the dog lives. You know if he could
'accidentally' get off that chain again sometime... say 2 or 3 a.m.?


If he 'can', get off that chain again, I'd go for it. If not, I'd keep
tabs. If it makes you feel any better.... If you took Haney, the jerk would
just get another. They always do. what do they care? it doesn't cost them
any money to NOT take ! care of their pet. (Embedded image moved to file:
pic03430.gif) I wish we could castrate idiots like that... Shooting them's
too nice.


tonya


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Dear Friends,

On Saturday I found an unneutered adult male German Shepard running down
the road in front of my house. It looked like he had broken his chain but
it was actually a huge, heavy clip that evidently attached his choke
collar
to his chain; it was so heavy that when he ran it hit him in the knee and
made him appear to limp. I caught him and he had no tags. He had big
lesions on his rump and rear legs that I thought might be mange or
ringworm
(I'm so snake-bitten with this damned ringworm, if I see any patch of
missing fur, I immediately figure it's ringworm!). I was on the way to
take my mother out (she doesn't drive) so I just put him in the car and
went to pick her up. I was concerned that he needed to go to the vet, and
! it being the Saturday of a holiday weekend it didn't even occur to me to
call animal control; they're a useless bunch ! of a-holes, anyway.
So, I stopped at the vet, got a leash and once that big clip thing wasn't
hitting him in the knee, it seemed like he was walking allright. I asked
if they could check him out since I had to make arrangements to board him
until Tuesday when I could call animal control to see if anyone had
reported him missing. We did some errands and then went home and sat on
the
porch until it was time to go to the vet. My mail carrier said she didn't
recognize him from any of the homes on her route, but that she'd ask
around. The vet determined that he was underweight, the lesions were
hotspots that were starting to heal, and that he struck her as a 'chain'
dog; one that is just pretty much permanently tied outside. His coat was
dirty and he had some mats here and there. I called my sister, who just
lost her She! pard, Abby, several weeks ago and she was happy to have him
stay with her for the weekend. We tested him for heartworm and ! lyme and
gave him a rabies and distemper shot and off we went for him to spend the
weekend in the country. This dog was very mellow and a really great animal
who loved attention. My sister came to meet us in the driveway and he just
loved her; she had him playing with balls and running around the yard in
no
time. We were all feeling really great about the whole thing and kind of
hoping that nobody did claim him because they would have gladly given him
a
forever home. My cellphone rang and my husband was calling to say that
he'd been called into work and when he left he found a business card stuck
in the front door and someone had written 'have you seen my shepard,
Viper?' (Nice name, huh?). Janice, our mailcarrier, had made a
connection......

So, I was upset about the choke collar to begin with and the g! eneral
condition of the dog and considered just ignorning it and saying, yes, I
had the dog at one time but it got away from me,! and I really wish I had.

I called this guy and he was a total a-hole; never asked me how the dog
was, is he ok, etc. Wanted to tell me some long story of how he's spent
$150 on chain and the dog keeps breaking it. I broke in and said well, why
isn't he neutered?, and he sort of chuckles and gives me the lame 'it's a
guy thing....wouldn't want that done to me' (yeah, like you even have a
set) so, I persist and say that it's in the best interest of the dog, etc.
and he's just being a jerk. So, I said, Ok, who's his regular vet? doesn't
have one....so, I tell him what treatment he'd had and he says, well, I
find it a little unusual that you would do that (get treatment) for a dog
that you'd only had a few hours. I said I had no way of knowing if the dog
had an owner or not and I did what I felt was right and! frankly that I
found it unusual that he'd react in this way to someone who was caring for
the animal. So, I said, well, I did wh! at I did of my own free will, but
since you do own him do you want to split the vet bill? Well, as you might
imagine, things went farther downhill from there. He got snottier and I
got bitchier, told him it was illegal to have a dog not current on rabies
shots, accused him of not even having the dog licensed and finally I hung
up on him. I called animal control and the sub-normal humanoid who runs
it, verified that this guy had called to report his dog missing. So, I
give him the whole story of what a jerk the guy was, how the dog wasn't
registered, etc. So, he claims he'g going to follow up on all this and
that I do have to return the dog; I'm really wishing I had lied, now. So,
I go get him and take him back to this freak, and just as I suspected, he
comes out on the porch and is a little scrawny jerk with! a GIANT belt
buckle (penis substitute?) and I couldn't even bear to look at him, I took
the leash off and said, 'here's your dog' ! and walked away. The dog
didn't
show any emotion at all at being reunited with this jerk. So, now all of a
sudden, he's Mr. Nice Guy, says, hey I appreciate you're bringing him
home.
I just turned around and said, you need to reconsider getting him
neutered.
He starts this whole guy thing rap again and I just starterd to walk away
and he's still talking, so I just turned around and said, it's your dog,
you can do whatever you want but it's in the dog's best interest in terms
of long term health for him to be neutered and I got in my car and drove
away.

I have been so upset ever since; my husband got home about 9 Saturday
night and said, well, since the dog had no id, you should have hassled him
and made him prove it was his dog, and my friend Joan said the same thing.
I guess I should have;! I was pissed off and not thinking clearly.

This dog (we called him Haney after our local TV weatherman who is a great
animal-lover and ho! sts adoption segments on the weekend editions)
deserves
better than this moron. I've seen some dogs get mean when they are just
chained out and not well-treated, but mostly (in my experience, anyway)
they are just so hungry for attention and affection that they are big
lovebugs. I definately needed Karen and Jamie for backup on this one!

Anyway, thanks for listening. I'm just devastated by this whole situation
and can't stop thinking about it. Hugs to everyone and headbutts to all
the furry ones.

Love, Julie

p.s. if I ever see this dog again, I've never seen him again, if you know
what I mean......




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