I live 18 miles outside a college town off a main drag through the forest. Every time a semester ends the college kids bring their kittens and puppies out to the “woods” and let them go. The dogs often try to stop cars by standing in the road and barking. I’ll come by later and they’ll be dead. I suspect the thinking is, “I’ll let them go in the woods.” Well, house pets abandoned in the woods are known as food. Or, perhaps they’re thinking somebody will adopt them. Well, what, all twenty or thirty of them?
Girls, boys, here’s a note. If your potential mate is willing to abandon a house pet they’re probably sociopaths.
We think something like that happened to our cat - my husband and daughter found her - or she found them - while out deer hunting. She’s been the best cat ever.
I had stopped at a rural crossroads just out side of the college town Corvalis, OR and had a small puppy come out of the brush to my car. I was young and had never heard of the dispicable act of dumping puppies like that. I sincerely thought it belonged to a nearby farm house and took it there. The very kind lady said it was not hers but she took it in. Probably wasn’t the first time she took in throw aways. That puppy was young & small enough not to have made it through the night if I had not come upon it.
One of the most cruel things I ever saw was when my landlord evicted a female and her offspring from one of his other apartments. She left a cat locked in the apartment, no food, water, or litter box. Just left it to die. By law, the landlord wasn’t supposed to be able to enter the apartment for 30 days following the eviction, so she knew the cat would be long dead by the time anybody found it. We saw the cat sitting in a window and called the landlord. Poor thing had been in there with no food or water for almost a week by the time they got it out.
Oh, yeah...I have cared for some of the cats abandoned by sociopaths here in soviet Red Hampshire.
I live in a tourist town. Those same college kids come here to work in the summer, get pets and in the fall take them out to the woods and let them go. Food for coyotes and mountain lions.