my friend, who lives in the country on 35 acres, frequently receives dumped animals, which her children love to feed. They normally feed scraps and some cheap dry food, but it just so happened that her animal-loving 18-yr-old recently decided to treat the dozen or so cats to canned food. All the cats died within a week, along with two of their three dogs. They have one dog left. A vet, who has cattle on her property, took a look at one of the dead dogs and said his gums were white, indicating poisoning.
I am so sorry for the young lady. Hopefully this won’t stop her from still feeding the poor babies who get dumped off. All of my animals are ‘strays’ that I adopted. Recently we added another to the fold, someone dumped her in my front yard.
Anyone who ‘dumps’ an animal like so much garbage should be buried in the local landfill.