WitchHazel Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 (edited) This makes my blood boil...how can people be so stupid and cruel? Dog abandoned outside vet's between 1am and 7.30qam on freezing cold night, had to be put down: http://www.maidenhead-advertiser.co.uk/news/article-20293-appeal-for-info-after-dog-is-abandoned-on-freezing-night/ Edited March 15, 2011 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henchanted Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 That is so sad and angry making Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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LuckyChickenLover- Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 I hope this heartless is found and punished. Seriously, what's the point!?!? If you can't afford to keep the animal then take it to the RSPCA/ Dog's Trust! I read once that someone made their German Shepard choke on a tennis ball, just so they could drop it off at the vets and never come to collect it. The dog survived thankfully. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 don't get me started on that one! I her a lot of similar events on the lurcher rescue forum that I potter on. Lurchers often follow a pattern when they are dumped - they are bred by spurious sorts for hunting/poaching. When they won't/can't hunt or aren't suitable for breeding, then they are usually dumped from a moving vehicle and left to fend for themselves along a busy road..... invariably they either starve, die form hypothermia or get hit by a car. Sorry, rant over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Speckled Hen Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 I couldn't bring myself to look at the link, the original post was enough. When I worked in Windsor we used to get pets abandoned after surgical intervention but at least that way we found them homes. I recall once a woman dropped "her" cat off for a vaccination saying she had to pick her daughter up from school. She never returned and my mum gave a home to the most beautiful,gentle black cat. Strangely two weeks later somebody came in saying could she have her cat back as a neighbour had left it with us One time I had to do an emergency op on a young GSD in the middle of the night....twisted gut,really complicated involved procedure with lots of post op care. Owner phoned up later, having waited while I did it, to say he had changed his mind and could I put dog to sleep I rehomed the puppy and got the fee back from him via the Army (Combomere Barracks in Windsor) Actually the Army are quite good and if you can prove you treated a soldier's pet in good faith they took the fee from their pay. Having moved to Teddington we used to get mums and kittens left in the waiting room on quite a few occasions and twice I had to collect dogs left tied up outside Tesco. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Having moved to Teddington we used to get mums and kittens left in the waiting room on quite a few occasions and twice I had to collect dogs left tied up outside Tesco. One of my cats is a rescue, left at a local centre, beaten and kicked and heavily pregnant, she was tiny and had two wee kittens. Whem we took her in, she spent the first two weeks cowering under the table in the living room, even now (5 years later) she's scared of her own shadow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Speckled Hen Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Some people can be so so vile. There is a link between maltreatment of animals and violence to people. I was approached by the police/social services on one occasion to help a survey on this matter. So difficult given client confidentiality but I have known households where pets and wives were abused. The pets got it twice.....from husband and kids who were themselves physically abused and transferred the violence to the family pet.... That's not to detract from spouses being beaten up,just an observation. Oh, edited to say that I got a fair amount of Munchausen syndrome too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 I've heard of that too OSH; I understand that where bodies such as the RSPCA are investigating reports of animal abuse, they look closely at the children in the households too as the two appear to be linked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WitchHazel Posted March 14, 2011 Author Share Posted March 14, 2011 Some people are so vile Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lavenders_Blue Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Oh this really does make my blood boil. I could go on and on once I get started, but I'm not going to, as I know you all feel the same so I'm just going to before I get wound up and cross. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seagazer Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 I really, really cannot understand people who do this type of thing. Poor dog. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feleena4 Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 My dad rescued his lurcher dog (Jess-as seen in earler post about lurchers). Jess was wandering the streets after being owned by heroin addicts for 12months. She is such a gentle soul, it breaks my heart to imagine her fending for herself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
