Sick um CGurl ! :thumbup:

CONCRETEGURL,,,,, YOU JUST WROTE WHAT I WAS GONNA SAY,:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

Why havent you taken this dog or turned her in to animals control or something? This is animal cruelty and friend or not you need to step in and take some responsibility

[quote=concretegurl;3454625]I don't get it how could you or would you ever call someone like that your friend? Sorry that's when I'd end the friendship why would you want to even know someone like that?

Do something...take her dog away...call animal control, take a picture post in in the paper shame her...sorry but I just don't get he whole kill 'em with kindness and honey catches more flies...if I wanted to catch flies I'd get a fly swatter...i don't think the words kill or kindness belong in the same sentence unless the premise is human euthanasia...

Either or if my dog was left in someone's care and then I found her that way, we'd be at the vet the moment I saw her like that...and afterward not taking her around showing people, we'd be at home recovering...I just don't get this it's absolutely sickening that someone could do this to a dog...any living creature and furthermore, equally as sickening someone could sit idol and do nothing...especially when its their dog!


Me too...the nightmares part!

I agree... this could be life or death for this pup.. not a time to be nice.
If you take the time to be nice the pup could die!!!



I would call animal control NOW!!!!!

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I thought the same thing about the overfeeding.

At this point I think I would just grab the little one and tell her she can visit but you are now taking custody of her!!

I really don't believe she can handle this little one and she probably deep down knows it also but is having a hard time in the denial part.

It really is time to take a serious step. Don't be afraid of your friendship, I believe she knows it is the best thing and if not, well she really isn't a friend afterall.

Bless you for taking the step....you HAVE to.:thumbup:

You got that right!!.

How awful! I could not even imagine starving a dog. There should be a test that people have to take in order to own pets. They shouldn't be allowed to have one if they just think of it as an animal...it's either love or nothing. I think that is why I have 4 dogs...I wanted to love them and give them a good, clean, happy home. Talk to your friend and see if she will admit that her life is too busy to adequately take care of a Yorkie. Ask if you can take the puppy and give it love, and if you cannot keep it full time try and find a good family for him/her. Poor baby...I'm saying some prayers for some intervention on this one.

I totally agree with Chachi...if you do not step in with the appropriate authorities this pup will not make it. You may have to get some help if she is not receptive to your wanting to watch the pup for her. I can't imagine not checking on this poor animal for all that time. I wonder if you offered to "purchase" the pup from her if she would be persuaded to give it to you. This is a dreadful situation.

The proper authorities should be called. Under no circumstances should a dog ever be taken by an individual.

This thread is so sad, the starving is horrible to read about, and the fact that they are allowing this dog to live in it's own excrement is beyond belief. Dogs are very clean, they won't soil their den unless they have no choice, and they are physically incapable of holding it any longer. Puppy mills are better then this. Please take this puppy out of these circumstances, and contact a rescue, I hope you can get your friend to give up the dog. As others have said, overfeeding a starving dog could prove deadly. Is your friend willing to turn this dog over to a rescue?

Could you explain this further, why would it be bad if an individual took the dog instead of animal control? Do you mean. if the owner is unwilling to give it up?

I meant for her to convince the owner to give her the dog. No matter what this is a situation that requires action so if the owner cant be encouraged to hand thne dog over animal control needs to step in.

I hope that Animal Control has this baby at its emergency vets office by now and the little thing is getting some help. And I hope the DA will file charges against this owner for depraved indifference, cruelty to animals, failure to obtain proper medical care, gross neglect......oh, I could go on............ and throw the whoe animal control code book at her and her kids! Further, she should be prevented from ever again owning a dog in that county as she has demonstrated a level of cruelty against this defenseless dog that goes far beyond neglect.

Yes, thank you Nancy. I meant an individual should never take a dog without permission of the owner.

I believe promoting the idea of seizing a dog when anyone thinks the dog is not being properly cared for is a dangerous idea. This is for the proper authorities. Maybe I'm naive in thinking that animal control and other officials are responsive to reports of mistreated or neglected animals.

I thought that is what you meant, but I wanted to comment for the benefit of other people.

The case of this pup is extreme, but I can't help but think of a recent conversation in a dog food forum in which a bunch of us said that we have had friends and strangers comment that our dogs are too thin and need to be fattened up. If I shaved down my little waif Teddy, and had him out walking, someone may decide that I am starving him and want to forcibly take him from me.

Even with permission from the owner, Mscat needs to consider her own circumstances and resources and obligations to her other dogs. A rescue is better equipped to get this dog the care she needs immediately and to find a good home.

I got to quit reading this thread, someone doing a little Yorkie like that, just burns my tail. I'm the kind of guy who would go over there and
kick their frackin door down and take that dog from um.

I will drive you!

:thumbup: GEES, I LOVE THIS FORUM :D

I will do my part , for this yorkie. I DID tell her not to feed her too much all at once . only small meals a day, I know that I said it when I was giving her food for her baby.
this woman is a friend of a friend, not a friend that i have ever hang out with or go out and eat lunch, nor ever gone shopping with.
I do not think leagally I could just take her dog without her permission. Yesterday was the first time I even seen her dog.
Like I wrote before I am definately going to do my part , even if I have no other choice then call animal control.
I have never seen something like this before, ever. It is shocking, disgusting , and very disturbing. I am in just as much horror as you guys.

Yeeeehaw...we're on a mission. :D:D:D

Yeah, I could use all the moral support that I can get !

Do you know if Animal Control has yet seized the dog? Did you tell them how urgent the situation is? Because a dog in the situation you described has very little time left. I hope you stressed all of this to the AC officer.

Good for you mscat. I hope you will. This dog needs help really badly and your friend has no business owning a dog if she can't take care of it. I just don't understand how a person can own a dog and not see it for weeks at a time. Why own and torture the poor thing. Didn't she think enough of the dog to visit it or is she missing some screws in her brain. I can't get over this. There are so many people out there who should never have dogs or for that matter any animals and yet I keep reading about neglected abused dogs. If I ever came across something like this I wouldn't have the patience to wait for animal control legal or not. I would have that dog out of that home. I don't think the poor dog has the time to wait for a legal process. She can't fight for her rights and somebody has to do it. I love SW Houston's post. I would have to go there a break down the door and get this poor puppy.

OK... I lied, I can't help but follow along here...

mscat,
You ARE getting support here !

But how about this...

you said that they were "friends of friends"... ok
what about you going over there, and just asking them
to let you keep the puppy for a while (don't say how long)
get their permission for you to take it "shopping" or something
like that, and.......
well just delay its return, they probably won't mind.

Think you could do that ?

Then you'd have it...WITH their permisson....see !

Moral support here! :wavey: I will drive up on a weekend if you need someone to back you up when talking with her.

I am going to get cleaned up right now, and have a heart to heart conversation with Nancy, even if she is at her job. I have to get her address and stuff to report this to animal control, I have to and their is no time to waste. Perhaps even threatning to call on her A** will make her decide to do the right thing!
My biggest concern is that animal control takes the dog and puts her to sleep, because she is so badly neglected. We live in a very tiny town, and animal control is always taking dogs , stray ones running around the streets. Once having the animal , it is like a death sentence.

I'd have to agree, friend or no friend I'd be calling animal protection. Figure out how to do it anonomously if necessary.
I realize vet care, vaccines, unexpected trips to ER, etc can be expensive but not figuring that into basic care...it is not expensive to have a Yorkie.
I have four and free feed them (probably shouldn't be as they are getting a little over weight/hard winter/less exercise the last couple months) and they go through a 3 lb bag of Royal Canin about every 12 days. That would average out to "about" $7 a week for food. Add the cost of potty pads for another (approx)) $10 a week --- that's less than a daily latte for a week. Now I love my latte's (breve's!!) but if I couldn't feed my dogs those drinks would be the first to go.
There's no excuse for this poor little Yorkie to be neglected, certainly not with the basic care items. It'd be better kept in a little room during the day and have someone love and care for it when they get home. People work, dogs stay home. That's life. As long as she comes home and gives HER dog lots of attention and proper care it'd be fine. She's basically dumped it off with a poor excuse for doing so...it'd be my guess she really doesn't want it and would probably be thrilled if someone took it off her hands (she just doesn't want to be seen as the bad guy for asking for someone to take it).
So come right out and tell her that maybe it isn't a good time in her life to have a dog and you'd take it off her hands and help her find another when she gets to a better place in her life.

Please keep me posted. I would hate to have the Yorkie pts just because of an owners neglect. There has to be a better solution. Good Luck and God Bless.

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If I lived close I would take the puppy if animal control would give it to me, and I am sure there are members of YT who are close enough to do so.


I just want to be sure this is on the up and up..... there have been post in the past that are questionable to say the least. If I am wrong I am sorry but....
http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/gen...e-today-5.html


and

http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/gen...ml#post3408032