I'm going completely off topic here for a moment. I seriously need to vent about uncaring pet owners. Pets bring such great pleasures to people's lives and I simply don't understand why some people get pets so they can ignore them. If you don't want to clean up after an animal, walk it daily, groom it weekly, feed it daily, take it to the vet for check ups and shots they don't get a pet! If your not willing to do even just one of those things then you shouldn't own a pet. Simply as that!
Folks like my neighbor who get a beautiful puppy, I suppose for their 5 kids to play with, is a perfect example of someone who shouldn't own a pet. As if 5 young kids isn't enough to take care of, they get a puppy. The puppy was probably cute for a few days and like the other toys they get bored of, get discarded away in the yard. So, here's this little puppy, no collar, not tied up, just roaming around the yard trying to keep itself amused.
The puppy seems well fed, but there is more then just feeding needed for a animal to develop into a loving, happy pet. So, as the puppy gets alittle older it inevitably starts to wonder into the neighbor's yards. Neighbors who have their own dogs either tied up or behind fences. Me...I don't have a fenced in yard and I don't tie my dogs out. They are small dogs and I like to spend time with them outside. I take my dogs, off leash into my yard so they can run around and play and do their business. Puppy sees some new playmates and wonders over to play. The puppy being at least double the size of my adult dogs were a bit scared but got use to the puppy and they play for awhile. But, my dogs need their own time to tend to their business and they can't do that with a puppy jumping on them and constantly wanting to play. Mend you, I understand the puppy's need for socializing and playing with other dogs and people...I totally get that. But, ulitmately it's not my dog to tend to and it's not my responsibility to take care of this puppy.
I've never said anything to the small children in regards to the puppy being at my house all the time but I guess the kids don't want the puppy playing with my dogs or maybe the parents told them to keep the puppy in the yard. Of course no one told the kids how to keep the dog in their own yard so the do what kids do. They put a kitty collar on the puppy which I ended up cutting off because it was strangling the pup. I honestly don't know how they even got this collar on the dog...it was insane tight. So, the next day, I guess the kids found a rusty chain in a swamp (at least that's what it smelled like) and tied that around the dogs next. Now this chain was all of maybe 4 feet long. The kids tied it to a tree branch which gave this puppy just enough room to sit but nothing else. Of course the next day when the puppy came running into my yard to play with my dogs dragging this nasty chain around it's neck, I once again removed it and threw it away.
The last straw for me was two or three days later, when these small kids, oldest one not being more then maybe 8 years old, were all outside playing and again the puppy came running to my house to play with my dogs. They tried calling the puppy which didn't work. After my dogs finished their business, I put them back in the house. The kids got the puppy, tied a short rope around it's neck and then tied it to the highest branch they could reach. They then repeatedly kicked the puppy and punched it in the head. This I could not take, I would not take.
After finding out that animal control had no officers working on weekends, and a police department that consists of a total of three officers, which none were currently on duty, I called the sheriff's department. The sheriff found that the two feet of rope was all the puppy really needed to get by and the kids being home alone wasn't a real concern, so he left, doing nothing to aid the puppy or the kids for that matter.
I am disgusted beyond belief!!!! How can two feet of rope, which doesn't allow enough for the puppy to lie down, no shelter and no water bowl be consider sufficent? Despite my hopes and prayers that the sheriff would be a loving pet owner himself didn't happen, I would have hoped that an educated person would see the situtation for what it was and clarify to these kids what they were doing wrong. This didn't happen, so I guess my only hope for this puppy is to wait until Monday for animal control to open and see if they can help these pup.
For now, I can only hope that I might find one of those underground groups that aids abused women and children except the do it for animals. Come in the dark of night and snatch up poor unloved, mistreated animals and find loving homes for them. While unwanted, abused animals is an epidemic in this country, I suspected finding such an organization that removes animals from their tormentors my not exist beyond the local animal control.
Well, instead of feeling better after my rant, I actually feel worse. I guess for the time being, all I can do is offer the puppy (which by the way, the kids have yet to name) alittle love and a treat no and then. What more can I do? I truly feel helpless.
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