Posted on 10/24/2020 3:16:52 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj
Pit Bull dog loses her 2 best cat friends to illness, but gains 2 new kittens to love.
Video, 4 minutes & 15 seconds
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Well there’s my cry for the night.
I pinged you to it since I thought you might appreciate it. :-)
It’s really personal for me.
My Ibizan Djinni passed away a year ago and little Gypsy the Podengo, who was already mourning Bubby’s death 3 years ago went into a terrible despair.
She’s never known a life without one of them still being here.
She resents Hrafi for being “not Bubby” and has settled into a love/hate relationship with him.
She really was attached to Djinni, the most.
The freaking greedy shelters here, even if it’s a some pitiful dog who’s old, ugly, sickly and no one wants it, is STILL $350 [and up] to adopt.
I have a stockpile of dog food I’ve hoarded from clearance sales and lots of love to give but just cannot afford such an obscene price for a shelter dog to make her happy again.
I’ve adopted many dogs and the most I ever paid was through a Doberman rescue.
He cost me a hundred bucks.
Every other dog was anywhere from 30-50 dollars.
So much for adopt don’t shop.
Meanwhile, she still grieves.
So that’s why I cried.
I’m very happy the dog has friends again.
Really nice. Great way to start the day!
The shelter costs are high enough to make sure people don’t buy them and sell them to labs. The shelters keep the costs high so there is no incentive for psychopaths to turn profit.
Additionally, there’s a certain demographic that likes to get tough looking dogs as status symbols, and then neglect/abuse them because they have no ability to actually care for anything good and living. The high shelter costs keep status dogs out of the hands of lowlife/low IQ thugs.
I am truly sorry, Salamander, for the loss of your companions.
Yes, it’s evil for shelters to charge and arm and a leg. A lot of them are in cahoots with vets who neuter/spay animals.
When we adopt our animals I tell the shelter right up front that the animal will go to straight to OUR vet.
We’re currently looking for a dog we saw on the street a bit from our house...if we see her again we’re going to take her to our vet to see if she’s got a chip. We think/hope she may have just jumped a fence and was roaming without her collar.
I also would like to adopt one of the cats in our area. My beloved husband mourns deeply all the pets we’ve had over the years. They don’t lie, or steal, and all they want is food, water, and hugs.... and a safe warm place to sleep.
Sigh.
In the 80s/90s, I didn’t even have to fill out adoption papers.
I just showed up and signed my name to the ones they kept filled out for me, because they knew I was often some dog’s last chance.
The local shelter has started to import bogus “meat dogs” and sell them for $1000 because there are literally not enough dogs in the shelter to go around.
And the liberals buy them for “status”.
[Well, except for the one shipment of “meat dogs” that had rabies.]
Before the covid scam, the shelter would have annual “no adoption fee day” and also an ‘elderly discount day” where dogs were $50 and cats were $10.
I tried for the latter but all they had was Pits.
Things are not what you think they are, anymore.
Far too many “shelters” are little more than dog flipping profiteers.
Of the couple dozen dogs “available locally”, most are currently somewhere in the south and have to be transported here for another couple hundred bucks.
Rarely are there more than 5 or 6 dogs *actually* IN the shelter.
There’s big money in “rescue” now.
It’s obscene.
And not surprisingly, the shelters are run by liberals who love peta and the HSUS.
It’s all about profit.
The local shelter is *funded* by the county and doesn’t even need the money they get for the animals but gouge, they still do.
I hope you find the dog’s people [or become the dog’s people, if it has none of its own] and the cat, too.
Animals have always been my greatest comfort and company, for the exact reasons you stated.
I’m sorry, I didn’t intend it to bring up bad memories for you.
That’s crazy those shelters won’t “make a deal” for the older, unwanted pets. Obviously they have to charge something, but it costs them more in the long run and worse, if they have to euthanize them if no one adopts (which I hope they don’t, but we know many do).
Despite that, you might consider donating that excess food (if you haven’t already) to those in need (even the greedy shelters), rather than let it expire.
I never have bought a pet in my life. All have been (or were descended from) ones that just showed up in my yard over the years.
Know what you mean. :)
Don’t be!
I cried happy when the new kitties came!
It takes a LONG time for dog food to “expire”.
It’s stored in a 75 square foot deep freezer that’s not turned on and remains climate controlled and cool.
The PetValu stores mark stuff WAY down 4-6 months before the “sell by” date and it’s good for a year past that date, at least.
My stash is for my dogs in case it all goes sideways.
If I have nothing else to my name, I will still have well fed dogs.
I have given food to people with dogs who needed it but only on a personal basis.
Years ago, every dog that got out of its yard would come here because they knew they’d be fed and watered while waiting for their people to be called.
[lots of “repeat offenders” showed up] :D
I don’t know half the neighbors’ names but I do know what dog belongs to which yard.
I must have been better at bitching out their owners than I thought because I have not seen a “stray” dog around here in 15 years.
Maybe I finally scared the locals into tending their dogs better.
{{{{hugs}}}}
OK, thanks for letting me know. I was worried the video may have unduly upset you.
I guess you’re obviously doing pretty well where you are if no strays have been around in years.
This awakens an old memory. In the early 60s my neighbors took in a stray dog. Don’t know the breed — a lab mix.
A litter of kittens was found in a nearby field and my sister took possession, keeping them in a large cardboard box. When evening approached I asked her what she had done with the kittens. She said she left the box in the front yard. I quickly ran out in the dark and discovered what I feared. All six of the kittens had been torn to pieces by that dog.
I shoveled up what parts I could find and burried them. I will never forget the barbarity of that event. Animals.
Damn blurry screen, I’m going to have to do something about that.
One memory I wish you had avoided sharing. :-(
keep me ON!
That is very interesting to know. We adopted and I was surprised by the cost.
That makes sense, in an effort to have the dogs go to good homes.
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