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02-04-2009, 05:45 AM | #1 |
YT Addict Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Fort Worth, TX, US
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| Neglected Dog, Feeling Bad I am having a hard time here. I have spent the past couple days on the phone with our Humane Society Investigators and the Sheriffs Dept. Our neighbors have an old Husky, probably close to 13 years old, that they have never really taken care of. I mean, she is an outside dog, and they treat her like one. She has a dog house (that she never gets into) and I see bowls on their back porch, but that is it. When we had 18 degree weather last week, she was left out in it even though they have 2 huge storage and work buildings in their backyard. She never gets attention of any kind. Her fur is completely matted to the point the mats pull her skin when she walks, her nails are growing into her pads so that she walks on the sides of her feet. Things like that. I have tried to do what I can with her, but because she gets no attention she is a bit wild. She will let me pet and feed her, but doing anything else gets kinda scarey. She also has arthritic problems that I am positive she probably isn't getting any help with. (She was run over by a car as a puppy and has a pin in her hip, which they didn't take care of, her first owners did) Well, this Sunday, she came to the house (she just wanders the neighborhood, we live in the country) and my husband took some of our brisket scraps out to her. He called me outside to see her and I just started crying. She is total skin and bones!! She stood there eating what we gave her like she hasn't eaten in a month, so I think they must not be feeding her. Or feeding her something she isn't able to eat anymore. Either way, they should see she needs to be cared for!!! After she finished eating she stood there shaking and crying this awful cry! I couldn't stand it! I went inside and wrote them a long letter about her being thier responsibility and how the things they are doing (or not doing) are affecting her. I told them there are places where they can get help with her if it is a money issue...a big 4 page letter. I also said that I understand that she is old and probably doesn't have much time left, but it is their responsibility to make her comfortable, fed, clean and warm for what time she does have left. My husband put it in their mailbox. Well, I decided that wasn't enough at this point. So I called the Humane Society Investigators, they told me I had to first file a report with the Sheriffs Dept and then they would follow up with them. They will first try to educate the owners and find help for them, and they take the dog as a very last resort. But they told me that in most cases like this, the owners will just turn the animal over to them. That is what is breaking my heart, cause if that happens, I know she will be put down. They won't want to spend the money on her in the shelter at her age! I can't take her in either. My husband and I are splitting up and I am moving at the end of the month to where I can't have her (I already have a dog). So I am just so torn today. Did I do the right thing or did I just send this sweet, sweet dog to her death.....
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02-04-2009, 06:14 AM | #2 |
My furkids Donating Member | I feel you did the right thing. Sounds like she isn't a well animal. She is probably in pain. Maybe the humane society will take her, clean her up and re-home her. But, if she is that sick maybe having her put down would be the most humane thing to do. I hate to see this happen to animals but, the life she is living right now doesn't sound very good.....except what you are doing for her.
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02-04-2009, 06:48 AM | #3 |
Donating YT 4000 Club Member | I agree 100% with the second poster, she needed help and you did the right an humane thing. Huskies need a LOT of work, their under coat needs to be blown twice a year other wise all the dead fur will matt and cause terrible skin irritations, I know my son had a husky for 10 years and now has a malamute another northern breed.I rather see a dog put down in a very humane way than keep suffering and dying alone in that back yard frozen and starve to death... I do hope they taker her , and hopefully they can save her, they are MANY husky rescues around.. hugs, CArmen in nj |
02-04-2009, 07:20 AM | #4 |
Donating YT 30K Club Member | That is so sad. You did the right thing. At least if she is taken by the Humane dept they can evaluate her and if she is truly in bad shape and in pain they can do the right thing for her and maybe make her comfortable.
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02-04-2009, 07:40 AM | #5 |
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| Thank you guys so much, that makes me feel like I did the right thing. Like I said it just kills me to think of her being put down, but I guess that would be better than the life she lives now. Breaks my heart......why do people have to be this way....
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02-04-2009, 08:09 AM | #6 |
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| I think you did the right thing too! I will NEVER understand why people get dogs and then don't care for them properly. They could have avoided the "hassle" altogether and just not had a pet! You have done more for this sweet dog than her owners have...
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02-04-2009, 08:39 AM | #7 |
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| You definitely did the right thing, and let me say you were a lot more civil then I would have been! Thank all that is holy that I was not there, it would have gone beyond ugly |
02-04-2009, 08:46 AM | #8 |
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| of course you did the right thing.. i feel soooo bad for that dog.. i just want to cry.. this is very sad.. people can be soo cruel. where the heck are their hearts?
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