Posted on 07/12/2011 8:41:19 AM PDT by Feline_AIDS
WEST COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) - The people at PETS, Inc. see animals come through the door in bad shape everyday, but some there say this one takes the cake.
A dog they've named "Cowboy," walked in their doors timidly Saturday with a tennis ball in his mouth, bite wounds from the nose to tail, underweight and dehydrated. When they opened his mouth to determine his age, they were shocked to see that all of his teeth had been broken or sawed off, indicating that he had been used as a "bait dog" to train juvenile Pit Bulls for fighting.
The skinny Pit Bull was found on Friday on Sandy Run Road in Gaston, an area that has produced other abused dogs, according to PETS, Inc. Cowboy's neck has a gray ring of broken hair typical of a dog who has struggled against a chain, shelter employees said.
When he first got to PETS, Inc., Cowboy paid no attention to the employees or to any of the other dogs in the room.
"It's just an amazing thing that a dog could have been through as much as he's been through and still be so accepting and gentle with people," said Jane Brundage. He was solely focused on the tennis ball that was given to him by the young woman who found him.
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And he doesn’t even have the teeth to hold it.
They can do reconstructive dental work.
I hope they will.
Indeed.
Today is Odin’s second birthday.
I think I’ll pop off of here and spend happy time with him.
He’s laying here right now, looking ‘concerned’.
He can sense that something has upset me and it’s not right that his special day be clouded by that.
Y’all take care.
You are right. They are a living breathing affront to everything humanity should represent.
But MARK MY WORDS, some idiot will chime in about human inhumanity to humans and imply that somehow we are overacting because these are just animals and that somehow because we feel so strongly about this, we wouldn’t feel as strongly about abortion, or other subjects involving human to human cruelty. Of course, that is nonesense and they know it.
Donl’’t ever reguse to adopt a dog just becasue he’s been abused. I had a dog for ten years whom I had to put down becaue of terminal cancer a few months ago. He was half Chocolate Lab and half Weimaraner and the most absolutely loving, quietly funny, and devoted dog I’ve ever been a dog daddy to.
His original owner was a horrible brute who tried to make him into a hunter when he was a lover who just wanted to be a lover. Fronm the way he acted after I got him, it’s obvious the brute “trained” him by beating him, yelling at him, and shooting off guns close to him to scare him. Finally, he was abandoned, tied to a stake near a burning house, and had much of he hair on one side of his body singed off. He was rescued, fostered, and, when I got him, he was stll afraid of walking on a leash and terriblhy afraid of riding in cars. In spite of all his horror, he retained the most beautiful, loving personality of any dog I’ve ever had and was an absolute joy during he ten years I was privileged to be his dog daddy. Indeed, even now, three months later, I tear up a I write this.
Doggy needs dentures.
My daughter brought a pit bull home from the pound. (She worked there, and thought I was a repository for unwanted pound puppies). According to the Humane Society, he was used as a trainer for fighting. He loved kids and cats and riding in the truck. I had a couple of male boxers who thought they were the hot stuff on the block. This dog would playfully pin them down like they were little pups, and he never hurt them.
It is a shame that the animals that fig these dogs are let loose on society after a slap on the wrist..
Golden’s just lie on their back and insist on having their tummy’s rubbed. The only thing that can make my dog a raving lunatic is if you stop petting him.
Oh the huge manatee,...
“...was found on Friday on Sandy Run Road in Gaston, an area that has produced other abused dogs...”
Looks like a good place for a stake-out. And then the tire iron therapy!
you see stories like this and think Michael Vick should have gotten twenty years
You know I do not care what others say about me I say what I think and to bad if they don’t like it..I know what you mean..People that have never raised and loved a dog or cat will never know what it is like to look into that sweet face and almost know what they want..And I am not crazy.I would love an animal before I would ever love some people,I can tell an evil person just like I can tell when to stay away from a dog that has been raised to kill..
In the photo I have seen, the dog does not look like a pit bull. That’s what I meant.
People who do this things to helpless animals are
1) an insult to the rest of humanity
2) a standing threat to all other living creatures, human and animal and should be destroyed.
I hope they can.
The dog deserves a good home.
Some folks need whipping.
There is nothing better than coming home after a lousy day of work and getting slobbered by an ‘oh so happy to see you’ dog.
Yes, those are indeed happy dogs.
I just truly want to beat the living sh*t out of bastards who do this to animals.
Absolutely.
Toward other dogs, yes. However, historically the handlers of pit dogs eliminated any individual dog that showed the slightest tendency toward human aggression. Modern thugs have bred human aggression back in, but there are still many, many pit bulls who have no hint of human aggression. This little guy's sin was his lack of aggression in any form, poor critter.
Thank goodness he found people that are the exact opposite of the creatures that owned him originally.
I adopted a beautiful Dalmatian who had been rescued from an apartment where her ‘owner’ was arrested. The dog sat in the shelter for three months waiting for the SOB to be sentenced. She was badly abused in her first 12 months of life and petrified of men.
With a lot of work, and with help from my other dog, she grew into a loving, graceful, sweet, trusting dog.
I often thought about the SOB who beat her and hoped that when Bubba was making him his bitch in prison, he might reflect on how he had treated that dog. I can only hope.
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