I’m a huge huge lab lover. Have 2 of them.
You did good in calling for animal control to cme pick up the dog. And how very very sad and heartbreaking to see it licking the other one hit.
But I’m just wondering where the idea comes from that spaying and neutering helps keep an animal home ?
What keeps an animal home are responsible pet owners who keep them confined ( by leash on a walk or in a fenced in yard ). Spaying and neutering have nothing to do with it. It’s the pet owners fault plain and simple.
I have neighbors on both sides of me who just let their dogs out to go potty and turn their backs on them. And it pi$$es me off to no end. They come in my yard, and up to my kennel and bark their heads off at my dogs if they’re out in the kennel, they chase my cats, and they growl at whomever is in my yard (me or kids or hubby). And they use my yard and tree’s as their personal toilet. And no, their owners do not clean it up.
They dont watch the dogs and the dogs are in the road and chasing cars and chasing other critters. Not to mention I am freaked out they’ll bite my 5 year old. One is a nasty mean yellow lab mix and one is an italian greyhound and the other side have 2 little froo froo dogs, a couple of mixed breeds and a huge freakin mastiff ~
I told dh that we were going to put up a fence on the south side to keep those 5 dogs out of our field we’ll be planting in the spring.
Enough of my rant.......sigh.....
Because a lot of people, when their dog has puppies, decide that they can sell or give away those puppies and that turns out not to be true. So rather than take the extra dogs to the animal shelter, they figure they will give those dogs "a chance" and let them go in the woods hoping someone will find them and take them in.
It's all done by "feeling" like you want to give the puppies a good chance at life. But these dogs end up starving, hit by cars, or feral and dangerous.
You complain vigorously (and rightfully) about people not controlling their dogs, but apparently your cats run loose? They poop in other peoples' yards too, and it POs those people as well.