We took care of our pets and didn't worry about others.
Just think, if everyone had that attitude, there would never be a thread such as this.
For someone to get any pet and let it randomly run loose shows zero consideration/respect for their neighbors. Period! Doesn't matter to me if its a cat, dog, horse or bull.
I live in a very rural area and my thoughts and the way I deal with this whole situation mirrors Arts thoughts to a tee. I've had neighbors dogs get loose in which I've caught and taken home. Had one neighbors coon dog that broke its chain, got deep down in the woods and got the chain he was dragging wrapped around a tree. He bayed all day long in 90degree + weather, driving my dogs crazy all day long. When I got home from work, the wife was "on tilt"(she kept our dogs in the house all day but had to listen to them all day).
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I found the dog and as I approached him, it was evident this dog was dehydrated but had more than enough left in him to snarl and snap at me. After a couple minutes of talking to him I was able to get him untangled. We went to the garage,got a chain repair link and walked to where he lived. Nobody home so I re-chained him at his doghouse ,got him some water and left. Called neighbor later that evening informing him he needed to replace the old chain.
On the flip side of the coin, like many rural areas, this is a perfect area for inconsiderate, self centered, irresponsible, cowardly morons to dump their pets. The newness of their pet has worn off(like a little kid after Christmas that the newness of their present wears off and they throw the toy in the corner) and they dump them. These people aren't smart enough to realize and consider the years of responsibility of having a pet and don't have the guts to either find a good home for the unwanted pet, take it to a shelter or humanely/quickly kill it.
Soooo.... Being the POS they are they take this now unwanted pet out and drop it off for someone else to deal with :barf:
Again, not only is this animal abuse in its highest form cause the animal now has to fend for itself and in many cases in the winter, suffers a lengthy, torturous death of literally starving/freezing to death. What a way to go huh.
I've spoken to Animal Control several times at length about this and their response has always been "although they know there's a big problem out here, this is to vast an area to effectively control the problem".
They(AC) do the best they can do and I understand what they're saying.
I also understand what I was instructed to do and that was to shoot them.
It upsets me tremendously when I have to kill a stray but I'll continue till another solution comes along.
Again, a duty left to me by some idiot of society(putting it lightly)
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