My daughters started the local Animal Rescue and we see stuff like this all the time. People were evicted from a rental property and left their dog in the house for two weeks with no water or food. The dog ate the sheetrock to survive and had to have surgery to remove the intestinal blockage.
A family adopted a pit bull puppy and the son “accidently” spilled battery acid on it and it died. They came back to the seller and got a second puppy that ended up at the emergency room after “someone” cut off his ears and tail and they couldn’t get the bleeding to stop.
A woman was fighting with her boyfriend and stabbed his dog to death and then stabbed her own dog. He’s in the rescue now and is a great puppy. I find it hard to believe that a puppy that’s been abused like that could ever learn to trust a person again, but he’s a lovable little guy.
Another family had a great Australian Shepherd and didn’t give it heartworm preventative. It was diagnosed with heartworms and they didn’t want to spend the money on it, so they dropped it at the shelter and got a new puppy.
One of my in-laws found out her dog had allergies and didn’t want to have to deal with giving it a pill every day, so she had it put down and got a new puppy.
I have a German Shepherd that was an escape artist. The owner dumped him outside the local shelter and drove away. I’ve had him for over five years now. German Shepherds aren’t made to be locked up all the time. They need mental and physical stimulation and lots of companionship. He has never escaped in the five years I’ve owned him.
I’ve fostered over 90 animals and now have five rescue dogs and four of them have issues caused by abandonment or mistreatment. It helps to understand the trauma they’ve been through and how that impacts their perspective. A dog that destroys your house when it’s left alone may have been abandoned and is afraid you’re not coming back. A dog that bites when it’s cornered may have been mistreated.
Yes, I’ve been around German Shepherds all my life - if their dog ran away and was “not a happy dog”, it was in the wrong home anyway. Ugh. They were probably ignoring it.
The poor thing will end up in a better home, after this cruel episode!
I have never “fostered” a dog (don’t think I could give them up after living with them for awhile), but all my boys and girls are what some folks would call rescues and I call gifts from GOD.
My wife just brought home a Shepherd that I guess you would call an escape artist.
I took a look at her and realized ‘this is just a puppy”, we got her into our vet and I had him scan her for a chip (she’s purebred German Shepherd) and guess what, NO CHIP.
Got her all her shots and started her on heartworm meds, she goes in to get spayed next week, she gets her chip at the same time.
She was given to my wife by some friends (they know us to well) who found her wandering in an industrial area in La Mirada, Ca. in Southern Ca.
Heidi now lives with me and her 5 brothers and sisters on our farm in Northern California (687 miles away).
Yes, she’s a runner but so is everybody else in her new pack.
To all those people who want a cute, adorable, puppy but won’t take care of it; SCREW YOU, SHE’S MY GIRL NOW.
My wife retires in June of this year and will be up here permanently, glad she was still stuck down there for this gift of a new family member.