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soul2share -> RE: Please keep your dogs on leashes when out of the yard, it avoids un nessiary tragedy. (2/20/2009 10:36:12 PM)
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um, Full Circle, man has too lived in caves, we have them in alot of areas here in Arizona.....the caves, not the occupants. There are archaeoligical sites in places where whole groups of people lived in caves. Just sayin'.
My cats are all housecats, as are all of my family's cats. All of them are leash trained, we bought small dog harnesses.....the cat harnesses are as useless as tits on a board hog.....took KB all of about 7 seconds to get out of one.....and this came about because we lost our first family cat to a car one night. That was the second time in my enitire life I'd seen my father cry, the only other times were when his parents passed, and Annie, yet another leash trained cat, also died....cancer, not vehicle. And EVERY dog we had never was outside without being on a leash......and this was before leash laws even existed. Purebred or mutt, that's just the way it was. They are just as fast as kids can be, and dart out without looking at anything but what it was that caught their attention. I once hit a dog that was loose, chasing a cat, and I felt like I was going to die.......but luckily, I apparently only stunned it, because when the deputy went to the owner to cite him for letting it loose, the dog was alive and well, inside the house. Thank God I slowed down when I saw the cat running hell-bent for leather.....where I'm from, something runs out in front of you at a high rate of speed, you slow down, cuz something is making it run for their life.
Feral cats are a real problem, they spread diseases, can decimate the local bird populations in almost no time at all, and are left to the mercies of life.....all because some dumbass human couldn't be responsible enough to care for the cats properly. At one point a few months ago, our local county animal control office was offering a 2 for 1 sale on cats...literally, buy one, get one free.....they were so overpopulated that that was a last resort before euthanizing them. Thre is a woman that works for the state here that will trap feral cats, and take them and get them neutered, and release them back into the area. Yeah, it sucks that homes can't be found for them, but ferals, for the most part, can't be housebroken. And I'll admit it, I, and two other women I work with, feed the groups of strays around the buildings in the complex downtown. Beats watching them starve to death.
OK, slightly off topic, but oh well, it's late and I'm bored. Bottom line OP, it was the owner's fault for being thoughtless enough to think the dog was "safe" off a leash. I have no sympathy for her stupidity.....the person who hit and killed her dog will also have to live with that sight in their mind for a long time.
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