Egad! After reading your post, I am thinking that I better not bring beloved Isis with me to Winn Dixie anymore.
That is the one place that I bring her where I leave her in the car for 10-15 minutes while I go inside, only if it’s cool enough outside where she is not at risk of overheating in the car.
If I came out and she was gone, I would not be able to live with myself, Good God, what a terrifying thought that is.
GSDs are a particular “favorite” of these demon skinwalkers.
Not sure if they still do it, but the local shelter used to impose a halt on the adoption of any “likely breeds” a month before Halloween.
Some of the other shelters get very twitchy at other times of year, such as April 30/May 1, too.
The world is full of evil people and shelters don’t really keep tabs on all those newly adopted Fidos and Fluffies so “they” go “adopt” them, knowing no one will bother to track the animal’s life after.
Many years ago, we had a guy bring a bike up from NOLA to get it triked out.
When he got here, he was distracted, and eventually said he was worried about his dog, a solid black Lab/GSD mix who had “disappeared” from his fenced yard, shortly before he came up here.
It was the third week of October.
I said nothing.
Didn’t have the heart to and was praying that my suspicions were wrong.
:(
There’s some weird fasciantion for “dogs with eyebrows” so ALL black and tan breeds are preferred victims.
God.
I hate even typing this.
Makes me sick to my stomach and brings back a lot of bad memories.
Anyway, that’s the big reason I went to breed club rescue rather than hitting the local shelters.
I lost the ability to keep seeing the ‘seasonal horrors’ without going mad.
:-\
I also have a pet I named Isis years ago. Now I’m ashamed to tell her name because of those savages today
... See my Isis on my profile page..scroll down. About 3/4 of the way.