Puppy Found On Road

[feralmerril]

Why are so many of you so quick to assume that almost every dog you see loose has been abanded? Havent every one of you had a dog get out and you hunted it down? Sure some are abanded but percentage wise I will bet the majority of these cases its a honest event. Pick them up, call the pound, post pictures in that area, read the newspaper lost & found. I just dont belive all these cases are cold hearted morons throwing their pets away.
Some very few, but not the majority. We have several cats. About two years ago a cat was getting in our house through our cat door. Late one night there was a cat fight right in our house, it was whipping up on ours in our own house! It outraced me out the cat door in our garage. My wife asked around the hood with no luck. She put a trap in the garage and caught it and we took it to the pound. A week or so later there was a picture of it on a power pole down the street. I felt real bad about that and now a few weeks ago it happened again with another cat that we havent caught. My wife went and pounded on doors around the block again to no avail. Now she has a cast on and is inmobile. I sure dont want to catch that cat! All that I really am trying to say here is that I think sometimes we jump too fast to a conclusion and invarably everyone else is quick to pile on and take it as gospei truth. I have always been a little more skeptical.

 

[perrazi]

not really a dog person, but don't understand people that would dump a pup on the side of a road.

 

[feralmerril]

I have to tell this one on myself. Many years ago in california my best friend and his wife lived next door. They had three dogs. They went somplace and I was to feed their dogs. I had keys to the house. I went over and one dog ran out right between my legs when I opened the door. I drove the neighborhood looking for it and spotted it playing with a couple of small kids about 4 blocks away. I stopped, picked up the dog from them and took off. I went to bills house and threw the dog in. The other two dogs imediately attacked it! Oh oh. Wrong dog! I broke up the fight and took the dog back, the kids were glaring at me and said nothing! Went back again to bills house and there was the right dog wanting in! They looked identical to me.

 

[shouldazagged]

Some of the ones dumped here (occasionally we saw it happen, always at night, and the people got away) were chewed all to hell, probably bait dogs for training pit bulls. We got one patched up, made inquiries, found no owner, and got her adopted--she was too big for the size limit we have here. Took up collections to pay the fees at a guaranteed no-kill facility.

I have seen dogs dumped by roads I was driving along, and tried to get license numbers. Succeeded once and reported it, missed one that got around a curve headed the other way.

It happens. Too much.

 

[NCTexan]

Where you find a lost animal and what kind of ID services are available really dictates the best action. (I didn't say "right action" because I can only make decisions with the info available.)

I've returned a number of "lost" dogs to their owners in our suburban neighborhoods.... Sometimes finding a phone number on a collar, once seeing a "missing dog" sign on a pole, and sometimes by calling animal control to see what's reported missing.

However I think that you could act as if it were "abandoned" if found without ID on a road outside of a highly populated area.

 

[gdnagle]

I have to tell this one on myself. Many years ago in california my best friend and his wife lived next door. They had three dogs. They went somplace and I was to feed their dogs. I had keys to the house. I went over and one dog ran out right between my legs when I opened the door. I drove the neighborhood looking for it and spotted it playing with a couple of small kids about 4 blocks away. I stopped, picked up the dog from them and took off. I went to bills house and threw the dog in. The other two dogs imediately attacked it! Oh oh. Wrong dog! I broke up the fight and took the dog back, the kids were glaring at me and said nothing! Went back again to bills house and there was the right dog wanting in! They looked identical to me.

Now that's funny, but not to you I guess.

Hey you did all you can do checked around no owner found, unless someone claims it it's yours. Could be hard to give up if someone claims it, but then again if they got it back, will it be on the road again. Some people only like dogs when they are pups and they get older tie them outside left alone. You didn't say if there were any houses around but if it had stayed on the road it would not be around any longer.

 

[Big Fred]

You did a wonderful thing taking care of that puppy. I also don't understand how some people could just abandon an animal.

I have more respect for animals than I do for a lot of people.

 

[Marshwheeling]

The rescue of neglected, abandoned, abused pets, is one of man's highest callings. If your little fellow has owners who are missing him, you will have done them and him a service by reuniting them if you can. If not, you will be amply rewarded for giving a him a home.

 

[Len]

Congratulations on being a righteous guy, and on the new dog.

The dark side of the truth of these things is that, in the country [round our farm for example] abandoned dogs are the norm, as opposed to "lost" ones.

All have their collars removed. All are frightened and hungry, ready to be food for other feral dogs or coyotes.

Sometimes you find entire litters of unweaned puppies.

The most that you can hope for is that the creatures who leave these dogs and cats out to nature really believe that they'll be ok and live well off the land, and/or get found by some good soul who will take them in.

Most of them though are tired of the inconvenience and expense of the dog, or due to neglect they find that the dog is so wild that "it's just not working out."

So, out of sight, out of mind. While the confused animal either gets run over, shot, eaten or becomes one of a feral pack.

You've saved this dog from a special hell.

Good on you!

Len

 

[Biginge]

Tlay, "Your the man". What a great thing to do. I, too, would like to meet the dude that "dumped" the pup. If there was anything left after you, I would delight in handling what was left. Your Sir, are a good man. Thanks.

 

[tlay]

I did not tell the whole story. When we left the vet we were directed to a animal control of our county. I told them our story and told them we have to go out of town on Wednesday and would not be back until Saturday. The person there came out to our SUV to get the pup and the pup growled at him. The guy told me that a lot of people dump their dogs and that after 72 hours and they couldn't find his home he would be uthanized. I looked at this little guy and said it looks like you are coming home. I took him back to the vet and explained that I couldn't take him home now because I have 2 older dogs and I wanted to wait until I came back to get him.
I asked how much for his shots and was told what they were. The vet that originally checked him said there would be no charge for boarding him until we came back. It goes to show you there are decent people left.

 

[mtelkhntr]

I abhor people who drop off animals. We live in a corner of town and I never know what will be sitting on the steps in the morning. We had a cat do that but insisted he stay outside so he could go back to where he came from but he never left. He was an intact male and set up shop in the neighborhood and twice I found him tore up from fighting. After two trips to the vet in the dead of winter and more money pored into the thing than me I told the wife she had a cat. He's been ruling the roost ever since.

 

[wheelman44]

luv dogs myself remembered from somewhere. Lord help me become the person my dog thinks I am

 

[Lost Lake]

I found a beautiful Airedale pup on the road once. No collar, no chip.

Took it home and my wife and I fell in love with him. He was the gentlest and most beautiful dog I had ever seen. We took him to the vet and had him checked out, got him his shots and a physical and he was just fine.

But I knew I had to look for his owners. I hoped we couldn't find them, but we posted ads in the paper and notified all the local vets.

We received a call from a vet about 3 days later that said he thought he knew a person that lost a dog, so we called the people he told us about and they said did lose an Airedale like the one we found.

I drove the dog out to their house which wasn't but maybe a mile from where I found him and the couple came out and said, "yep, that's our dog. Thanks for bringing him back." And with that they walked back toward their house.

That was it! No thanks. No sorry he got out. No nothing.

My wife was so mad she wanted to steal him back! She always looked for him on that road and I know if she found him she'd take him home....

So please do look for the owners. I always think there may be a small child crying themselves to sleep because their dog is gone....


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[Fredo Batali]

Tlay,

Great Job! That puppy's going to be a fine dog thanks to you. There should be more people in the world such as yourself.

De Oppresso Liber

 

[J. R. WEEMS]

luv dogs myself remembered from somewhere. Lord help me become the person my dog thinks I am

AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[sheepdawg]

God bless you. That's how we got Dixie, some excuse for a human being booted her out of a car at one of the busiest intersections in Memphis. Maybe a year old and in heat a friend of mine saw the whole thing and took her home. She paid for everything at the vet just told my wife and I we could have her. She had three labs so keeping her wasn't in her plans. That was seven years ago and Dixie has turned out to be the best dog we ever had. They just know when they've gone from a bad situation to a good one and let you know it.



Dixie and I at Lookout Mountain about two years ago.

 

[njmedic1485]

I wish there was something stronger then a "like" button. Thank you for saving that pup and giving it a home.

 

[Ranger514]

What a wonderful thing you did for that pup and yourselves. You're my kind of person. The wife and I have two dogs. Our oldest is a Lab that we bought as a pup from a neighbor up the road. The youngest is a pound pup that replaced our old pound pup who died a couple of years ago. We also have three cats. I can't imagine life without these four legged friends. It breaks my heart to see how some people treat their pets. Bless you and everyone who cares for their pets.

 

[chud333]

tlay,
I am a firm believer in "what goes around, comes around".
You will be repaid in spades for the kind gesture and saving
that poor pup. God Bless you sir.

Chuck