|
Welcome to the YorkieTalk.com Forums Community - the community for Yorkshire Terriers. You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, communicate privately with other members (PM), respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features. You will be able to chat with over 35,000 YorkieTalk members, read over 2,000,000 posted discussions, and view more than 15,000 Yorkie photos in the YorkieTalk Photo Gallery after you register. We would love to have you as a member! Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please, join our community today! If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please click here to contact us. |
|
| LinkBack | Thread Tools |
04-10-2013, 09:13 AM | #1 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Southern California
Posts: 611
| Puppy tied to train tracks This is SICK!!! I hope he finds a real home soon. Train narrowly avoids hitting puppy tied to tracks |
Welcome Guest! | |
04-10-2013, 09:16 AM | #2 |
Cedric♥Lola♥Keylo Donating Member Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Gilford, NH, USA
Posts: 9,209
| wow so glad the train driver cared enough to see what was going on and stop that train!! i hope that precious baby finds a much better owner. good lord what is worng with people.
__________________ Cedric N Lola N Keylo RIP Punkee Princess |
04-10-2013, 09:18 AM | #3 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: montana
Posts: 2,945
| It makes me sick// how can someone do that????? |
04-10-2013, 09:19 AM | #4 |
and Shelby's too Donating Member Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Millbrook, AL
Posts: 7,842
| I'm not even going to look. I can't. sick world
__________________ Terri, proud mom to Mandie & Shelby-Dale |
04-10-2013, 09:20 AM | #5 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Land of Oz
Posts: 4,289
| It is a sad story and I hope Banjo finds a good home, but I do have to defend the old man because it sounds like something my grandfather would have done granted we would not have let him out the house alone. Alzheimers and Dementia cause them to think and do some ODD ODD stuff!!
__________________ Alisha mommy to Guinness Stout 7 & Stella Artois 5 & Teagan 4 Guinness & Stella proud Teapot Club Members |
04-10-2013, 10:09 AM | #6 |
My hairy-legged girls Donating Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: lompoc, ca.
Posts: 12,228
| It's just the picture of the little dog. Looks like he has a little blanket. Cute picture.
__________________ AZRAEL RAZAEL JILLI ANN |
04-10-2013, 02:08 PM | #8 |
YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: NY
Posts: 6,582
| They did not pursue charges? And how will they prevent this "family" from getting another dog that they don't know what to do with? Confused? I am confused! The man obviously knew enough to move away from the train tracks before he got hit! What a crock of crap! I do hope they make sure this poor victim gets a proper loving FOREVER home. I used to live near a home where the man let his little Beagle get bred every year and every year he would take the pups and drown them. Confused? I think not. Last edited by gracielove; 04-10-2013 at 02:10 PM. |
04-10-2013, 02:16 PM | #9 |
♥ Love My Tibbe! ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: D/FW, Texas
Posts: 22,140
| The old man does probably suffer from some form of dementia and those sufferers are quite rational at times but others do things they would never have done before the illness. It can change a person so fundamentally. Unless someone has known someone they loved who developed and lived with dementia, you couldn't believe a person could undergo such a basic transformation. I'm so grateful this poor dog will get a chance to have real life now and that engineer is a hero!!! Hopefully that sweet little dog can find a home with a younger and more active owner who can regularly exercise, walk and play with the dog - which a lot of older owners cannot do.
__________________ Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |
04-10-2013, 04:35 PM | #10 | |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Land of Oz
Posts: 4,289
| Quote:
My grandfather LOVED his Yorkie mix Jazper but I caught him one day tying an electric cord around her neck really tight and when I stopped him and asked why he just said it was because he lost her collar and leash and that she was trying to get out the window of course she had on her harness and there was no way she would have ever left his side.
__________________ Alisha mommy to Guinness Stout 7 & Stella Artois 5 & Teagan 4 Guinness & Stella proud Teapot Club Members | |
04-10-2013, 04:47 PM | #11 |
www.yorkierescue.com Donating Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: Las Vegas & Orange County
Posts: 17,408
| I saw this story too. I don't understand why no one from the family was supervising the old man if he in fact has dementia or alzheimer's. At least they don't get to keep the dog! Hopefully he will be safe from now on.
__________________ The T.U.B. Pack! Toto, Uni, & Bindi RIP Lord Scrappington Montgomery McLimpybottom aka El Lenguo the Handicapped Ninja 10-12-12 |
04-10-2013, 04:48 PM | #12 |
Princess Sophie's Choice Donating Member Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Clinton, IL, DeWitt County
Posts: 2,758
| Makes you think...what is this world coming to??? Maybe I'm just getting old but I think this is criminal!!
__________________ Diane owned and loved by Hansel and Princess Sophie |
04-10-2013, 05:17 PM | #13 |
♥ Love My Tibbe! ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: D/FW, Texas
Posts: 22,140
| If he's got dementia, he doesn't always know what he is doing or why so it's not criminal in that sense. But it isn't that easy to get the family to commit someone to a Nursing Home and, even if they want to, if there are no Medicaid beds in the facility nearest or they don't have the funds to pay, they have to have them arrested and they go to a horrible state hospital, where the demented are often raped, beaten and abused by one and all. Often, the other spouse depends on the one with dementia for their own care and won't try to get them help. Such is the state of the elderly and dementia in our country, at times. We went through some terrible things with my BIL when he had Alzheimer's, prior to getting his diagnosis. He passed as a normal person for the longest time when others were around until my sister(who was blind) could talk him into going to see a neuropsych and that took two years! The doc told her that until he saw my BIL's test results, he did not believe he was in any way a dementia/Alzheimer's patient. It is VERY hard to get help at times. Even when the demented patient is trying to leave the house in the middle of the night to get a car inspection(!) and hasn't mentation enough to drive to find the grocery store in the day time and one calls the police, police often admonish the family for calling 911 - if the patient transitions out of the dementia phase due to fear before the police arrive. And once they transition out of the dementia for a time, they can pass as a normal person quite well. If you are still trying to get a diagnosis, there is nothing on paper and no proof. There are a lot of reasons why a sick person hasn't good care and is out doing things on his own, totally unsupervised, but the police feel they haven't sufficient evidence to get a conviction of a person for a criminal act or judged as a mental incompetent.
__________________ Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |
04-10-2013, 06:15 PM | #14 | |
Princess Sophie's Choice Donating Member Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Clinton, IL, DeWitt County
Posts: 2,758
| Quote:
I most certainly do understand the difficulties the authorities and mental health professionals have when working with diminished mental capacities. I've worked in this area myself. I guess I was just expressing my frustration and choose the wrong words. Thanks so much. It's good to know that others, like yourself, understand the need to take circumstances into account when looking at any problem. Bless You!!
__________________ Diane owned and loved by Hansel and Princess Sophie | |
04-10-2013, 07:04 PM | #15 | |
♥Love My Snuggle Bugs♥ Donating Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Missouri
Posts: 4,290
| Quote:
__________________ CharleneMama to Laddy and Kyra and Always in our hearts Lolita | |
Bookmarks |
|
|
Thread Tools | |
| |
|
|
SHOP NOW: Amazon :: eBay :: Buy.com :: Newegg :: PetStore :: Petco :: PetSmart