Maya2001
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ORIGINAL: samboct
I'm sorry, but I think the level of vitriol here is way out of whack and shows remarkably little compassion for the families in distress. Furthermore, what it also shows is a breakdown of our civil services- where is animal control in all this?
Hypothetical-
Family with 2 kids and a dog. Sheriff shows up and says you have to leave- now. You can't take the dog with you because they're not allowed in the shelter. And you can't show back up on the property or you're liable to be arrested. Your kids are crying, your wife is pissed, and your crying too because you feel like a failure. What exactly do you do with the dog? Call somebody? Odds are your phone's been disconnected and cell phone minutes can be expensive. Ask the cop to shoot your dog in front of the kids? You think the kids are going to be happy knowing their dog is dead? Maybe it's easier to give the kids a fantasy to cling to- that we're just leaving for a little bit, and we'll come back and play with Rover in a few days.
So yeah- it sucks that people don't take care of their animals. I'm still of the generation that says you take care of your own dog- and I still remember when I came back after sailing for a week and discovered our Newfie pup had died. (His littermate had a machinery heart murmur- odds are this dog had a bad heart too.) So crying and pissed off, I dug a hole in the backyard to bury my dog-but it wasn't easy- Newfie's take a big hole. And I gather these days that you're supposed to bring the corpse in to have the vet take care of it- and they charge you for it.
But this does seem like a breakdown in civil services. I think it may be a bit much to ask people during an obviously stressful time to take care of their pets, especially if the shelters aren't accepting them. So I think the people doing the foreclosing should ask if there are animals that need to be dealt with and do so after the family has vacated. Don't they check on gas and electricity? Isn't this what we pay taxes for?
Sam
When financial troubles occur it does not happen instantly especially with homeowners, it can be months after a job loss, sickness etc before you get to the stage where eviction occurs, they had plently of time prior to make arrangement for the dog, the fact they destroyed the place before the eviction, shows there level of irresponsibility.
I know what it is like to struggle through with a house during hard times, went thru 5 years of rotating layoffs at a time while I was raising a child alone and also a pet owner, but never would I consider abandoning a pet and letting it suffer no different than I would have done for my child.
Currently things are better for me, I have 4 dogs but should my circumstances change where I cannot keep them,(death, illness, accident, loss of income ) everyone of them has a place to go and 3 out of the 4 are special needs dogs.
So what if their phone was disconnected or if they could not afford the cell phone, there are other means in a worse case senario, if they could not find a shelter to take the dog....... they could have left the dog there skipped one meal for themselves and right away place an anonymous call using a payphone to report the dog as abandoned, long before it even had a chance to get thirsty rather just leave it to starve to death, that would have been the humane thing to do, once a call is left with the city or pound , then someone would have to respond and investigate and the dog would have not needed to suffer.
The senario you gave, cannot even occur with serious legal ramification on the part of law enforcement it simpply will not work the way you described.
the cops knowing the dog was left there when they arrived to evict the family would have had to responsibility of contacting animal control for someone to pick up the dog otherwise they would have been charged with the abandonment, they cannot just go around shooting a family pet unless it was a serious danger to the officer, even if it appeared dangerous or meancing the police would first try to talk to the owner and ask them to confine the dog when they come to enter with the eviction warrant.
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(there's no "hug" emoticon so this was the closest thing). I too think the skewed priorities are the wild thing about this thread. As I've said and said, it was terrible and wrong. But to punish animal abusers by becoming bloodthirsty killers of humans just seems a bit out of whack. That's all I'm sayin'.............luci
. I understand that people probably aren't actually going to go out and really kill these offenders. I get that. I'm saying that I think it's telling that somebody would express their frustration about murdered/abused/etc. animals by saying the same should be done to humans. I was never in genuine fear that anyone here was actually going to go DO anything about it. I just expressed my consternation that they would SAY such ugly, horrid things should be done to other humans who had hurt animals. Again, everyone is entitled to their own opinions. Animal abusers are sick, messed up people for sure. However, torturing humans who torture animals doesn't make a lot of sense. And being so "frustrated" about this thread that you'd even express that it's a good idea just seems a bit "skewed" to me (as kittensol said)...........luci
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