Amazing: Hundreds Want to Adopt ‘Miracle’ Dog Who Survived Gas Chamber
- Posted on October 28, 2011 at 5:30pm by
Tiffany Gabbay
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While not entirely a “feel good story,” there is definitely something heartwarming, and awe-inspiring, about a 5-year-old miracle pooch named Daniel who waltzed right out of an Alabama gas chamber, tail wagging, after a failed euthanasia attempt.
The dog, described as a Beagle but more closely resembling a hound-mix, was sent to the chamber with 18 other dogs at an animal shelter on October 3. When the animal control officer returned to the locked chamber and opened it, he found Daniel happily wagging his tail while the other dogs lay dead.
The control officer said he didn’t have the heart to put the pup back into the chamber, mainly because he believed Daniel survived for a reason, proving his life must have a bigger purpose.
Now, hundreds of people touched by the story are vying to adopt Daniel and make sure he is never sent back to the kill-shelter.
ABC adds:
He found a temporary home in Tennessee with Karen Rudolph, who runs Schnauzer Savers Rescue of West Tennessee with her husband Michael.
Rudolph dubbed him Daniel, inspired by the biblical story of Daniel, who walked out of a lion’s den unscathed. Eleventh Hour Rescue, which brought Daniel to New Jersey with the help of Pilots and Paws, gave the dog the last name “Milagro,” meaning miracle in Spanish.
What is perhaps most incredible, is that Daniel received a clean bill of health from the veterinarian.
“Amazingly, not only did he survive the gas chamber which is very rare … he was not sick,” Rudolph said. “It was almost as though angels pulled him out of there and he didn’t even breathe the gas.”
At 20 pounds, Daniel is underweight and his immune system is slightly compromised, but otherwise he is in good health, Eleventh Hour Rescue president Linda Schiller said. Schiller’s group is trying to find a home for Daniel.
The beagle is now staying with Eleventh Hour volunteer Jill Pavlik until the organization finds an appropriate home for him.
Schiller isn’t worried about finding a new home for Daniel, who is highly adoptable due to his celebrity status. In fact, just an hour after the Star Ledger newspaper first covered the story, Schiller had received over 200 emails from readers interested in Daniel, and the attention hasn’t slowed down since.
But she hopes at least some of the applicants will be interested in adopting other dogs.
“We have dogs that are just as wonderful as him that were on death row, but didn’t walk out of a gas chamber,” Schiller said. “They‘re happy and they’re wagging their tails and ready to be adopted.”
Would you like to adopt Daniel?
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YesNdeedie
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 10:36pmI sure hope one who seeks to adopt is not named Michael Vick.
Report Post »dealer@678
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 10:50pmWalked out of that gas chamber forgiving all who forsaked him. Remind you of anybody
Report Post »Favored93
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 11:51pmAnd yet another time animals are talked about as though they are people.
Report Post »Don’t get me wrong the Bible has a lot to say about how we are to treat our animals and we are held accountable for it I think however they are not equal to people. There are too many instances were a person is held in higher regard then a person and movies like all dogs go to heaven and stories like this don’t help that.
The dog had a purpose? Really? So who is going to hear the Gospel from this dog?
Glad this dog is spared and I do hope he finds a good home but heart warming animal stories do get under my skin because of the junk people have had to enure because of the left and their “animals are people to” war cry have just harmed to many.
Did you guys see the story about the little girl who saved a bird from a cat and the family was fined like $50,000?
Yay for the dog but I am sick of hearing about this kind of junk.
ConservativeCharlie
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 1:03amGod works in mysterious ways, Funny to me that some of you think that a Dog cant have a purpose. His story may be the only bit of good news many of us have heard on the news.. Beyond that I could go on forever how this story could have ripple effects. If god has decided to use this dog for a purpose then who are we to question it.
I love Dogs, and all of gods creatures. I really find it disturbing that people would be offended by this story. Just so some of you know, Im speaking about some of the comments.
Report Post »rangerp
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 8:52am@Favored93
I agree with you. In America, we have a weird esteem for animals. After decades of the bambi movies, we have those out there that think animals have the same emotions as people.
I believe that if you own an animal, then you are obligate to care for it appropriately.
How many people would care for this dog, but are not offended by abortion?
We have children getting adopted now by gay couples, and there is no public outcry for these poor kids.
While Michael Vic was the center of attention for fighting dogs, R Kelly (the rapper) was in court for urinating on minors and having sex with them. R Kelly got off with no prison time, and there was no outcry. Had Vic gotten off with no prison time, people would have torn the court room down.
We live in a sick nation.
Report Post »lthm
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 2:46amI wonder, RP, what exactly you find to be good and wholesome about this country. All I see are negative comments about how evil/misguided you think other people are. Whether they be guilty of loving a dog or loving another person. It’s rather disconcerting.
As to this dog, I hope he gets adopted by a loving family and that this situation spurs other adoptions. What happens in animal shelters across the US is absolutely horrifying. PLEASE spay and neuter your pets and please adopt from an animal shelter when possible Even if you can’t adopt, many shelters will allow you to sponsor an animal to save it from the kill list, and it costs just pennies a day!
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 9:45pmit’s still a sad story :(
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 3:00amIt is sad. but this dog serves as an inspiration and sends a message of hope. However it does not change the fact that these animals facing death are helpless at the hands od the people who refused to give them the care that they deserved. Humans are responsible for the over population of dogs and cats. Spay and neuter. There are many organizations that offer low costs for these services. Basically don’t get an animal if you can not afford the necessary care. And do not breed for financial gain for yourselves. Backyard breeders, puppy mills, and lack of responsibility are adding to the overpopulation.
Report Post »IslandMama
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 9:55amPamela: Be careful! Not all breeders are bad. I breed dogs and have been for over a decade. Not one of my dogs has gone to the pound. We have a part in our contract that tells our puppy buyers that if they ever cannot keep their dog during its lifetime for ANY reason, we will take it back, no questions asked – and in fact have done so and re-homed the dog three times over the years when three families encountered hard times. So let’s not lump all breeders into this category. I too believe overpopulation of dogs and cats is the responsibility of the owners who did not spay or neuter – which we encourage our buyers to do. And it is the responsibility of the breeder to make sure they are delivering a healthy dog to the new owners, which means spending a lot of money up front on shots and dewormings and such – we do all of this. In fact, we do it so well that our vets over the years have promoted our dogs to their other clients and friends. My current vet’s best friend owns one of our dogs and my vet believes in adopting shelter dogs, so this is a compliment of the highest order. If no one ever bred any dogs, there would be no purebred dogs in the world and while I would love to see all shelter dogs adopted, there are advantages to purebreds as well as to mutts and crossbreeds. I have owned both – shelter dogs and purebreds – and have loved them equally well, but there are some purposes that purebred dogs serve and it is not evil to breed or own them. The
Report Post »Bernard
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 9:33pm“he believed Daniel survived for a reason, proving his life must have a bigger purpose.” I almost want to cry reading this story. in a culture that has deteriorated long before this economic crisis, into a “use and dispose” culture where from one time use cameras, to abortions, virginity, divorce, the elderly who are dumped in nursing homes to live a life of utter loneliness, to pets, to unwanted children, we have lost that humanity that once made us civil and decent.
Report Post »I read an article of what is happening to our pets in the DRUDGE report regarding the state of Wisconsin. Now millions of pets are an added burden. I am sure many families are torn apart in giving up their pets to animal shelters. but the numbers are staggering. I believe many of these families take the easy road and dump their pets at the nearest animal shelter than take the effort to find a family that will adopt them.
The economic impact is less consumption of pet products, pet shops, to a whole range of items meant for pets. the family impact is no cat more mice. no dog more chances of an intruder and no pets leads to children unfamiliar of the joys of bonding with an animal, or an adopted member of the family. Yes this dog’s miracle is a message to all who are too eager to dump their four legged loved ones.
After Gustav our neighbor tied a sweet dog to the post of the house and left, never to return. If I had not passed by and unchained that dog, he would have died a horrible death.
FreedomIQ
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 9:14pmI’m a bit disappointed by the writer of this story: Tiffany Gabbay. She wrote a feel-good story without doing the appropriate research: the shelter‘s dirty secrets that they don’t want the public to know. The Animal Shelter importation and interstate transportation model has been neglected by journalists probably because a lot of them “volunteer” at local shelters and their reporting becomes both jaded and influenced. NAIA has shelter data project stats as does the CDC, which has already publicized concern about the influx of diseases from imported shelter dogs.
The information is out there if the Blaze has any interest. Go figure.
The whole problem is the Saul Alinksy model for animal rights activists, who as a whole, rack in about a half a billion dollars a year to feed their coffers and use for leftist causes, not to mention making life miserable for pet owners and breeders through lobbying for increased regulation. And that doesn’t even include the money and activism within animal control at a local level.
The public is severely misinformed and it is costing all of us our pet ownership rights. A feel-good story doesn’t mean that the whole story has been told. Likely it hasn’t even been looked into…or worse, leftist reporters keep burying the truth at American Freedom’s expense.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 9:29pmYeah man you right you right. But more importantly Daniel survived. Daniel always survives. Lol
Report Post »Favored93
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 12:13amExactly….animals are property like my kitchen table and chairs. Sounds cruel yes? Not if the Lord is my God. The Bible tells us just how to treat our animals I believe that because the Bible calls us His sheep we are to treat our pets as we want God to treat us. Psalms 95:7 says For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand…..
Report Post »The old law and Jesus also talk about how we are to treat our animals but I will not go into all of it here.
The issue of animals rights from the left is just another way for them to steal our God given…NOT GOVT GIVEN… rights. Our pets are property and under our property rights we have the right to do with them as we please. God will however deal with us on how we treated them and stewarded what is His….all we have is His. Would you want your neighbor beating your dog?Neither does your God want you to beat yours. But that is not for our Govt. to decide for us I think … as harsh as that sounds they are NOT people in spite of what the left claims. If you are a kind person this is a non issue. If a cruel person then you will have to face God whether you believe it or not and he is far stricter then our Govt. can be.
cosette
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 8:38pmAnimals are my favorite people. I am a “cat” person. I love all animals but cats hold a special place in my heart. As a faithful member and supporter of our local animal shelter I implore all like minded animal lovers to please support yours. Last Christmas I gave myself a gift. I sponsored a cage in the cat house at our shelter. It was my way of acknowledging the gift of love they gave me in the form of our precious calico cat. Shelters are ALWAYS in need of funding and many of the staff are volunteers who do what they do out of love and compassion. Please visit a shelter to find your next best friend, and please support their work.
Report Post »ca lady
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 11:57pmI tried to, but I was turned down as an “unsuitable home for cats” because I would let them go outside.
Report Post »RossPoldark
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 8:37pmIt’s a great story this little dog survived, and now, over 100 people want him. Imagine if that many people would have come forth to adopt the other dogs before they were euthanized, they would have been saved too.
Report Post »dodgeball
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 5:49pmImagine if that many people would have come forth to adopt the other dogs before they were euthanized, they would have been saved too.
Report Post »Imagine if that many people came forth to adopt the many hundreds of viable babies that are killed every day? It’s possible that abortion clinics would be a thing of the past. Who in their right mind would intentionally kill a tiny, helpless baby boy or girl already knowing that there was a prospective family waiting…unless they just didn’t care!
About 12 years ago, or more, close to a million dollars was spent (squandered, one could say), over a two week period one winter, just to save a whale that got trapped in some very small open area in an ice flow on the west coast way up north. The story naturally tugged at everyone’s heart strings (until it was finally led to freedom in open water), since no one wanted to see the poor thing die from starvation (including myself), but there comes a time when priorities have to be applied to a situation to see if it is cost efficient or not.
That was just ONE whale that was being saved (and perhaps rightly so), yet we hear about the thousands of infants being aborted alive DAILY (with procedures so inhumane that it would grieve even the most hard-hearted), and it doesn’t even make the news. The RTL agencies involved with saving these precious lives have to almost beg for funds just to stay open. What’s wrong with this picture?
I love animals but do we have our priorities mix
NeoKong
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 8:21pmGassing doggies to death.
Report Post »Definitely one of the crappiest jobs in the world.
smokeysmoke
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 8:28pmnow this is the first thing that makes me UPWARD TWINKLES in a long time….
Report Post »Bakko Bomma
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 8:04pmIt’s the anti-christ dog!! O.O
Report Post »Amica
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 7:57pmI have a Beagle, probably the best dog I’ve ever had. She will sleep for hours completely covered by blankets.
While the comments on puppy mills are valid, if this dog is a mutt (and I mean that with the utmost affection) he is not a product of one.
And before you berate me for buying a purebred from a puppy mill, my Beagle was adopted.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 8:44pmYea, unfortunately (or fortunately for the mutts) puppy mills only deal with pure breds. I have a rescue dog that’s beagle/jack russell terrier, but trust me, there’s no jack russell in her…she’s all beagle personality wise. She sleeps most of the day and will eat anything but lettuce.
Report Post »Amica
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 1:19pmLoriannne:
My dog’s the same way. We practically have to hang everything from the ceiling (like you do to keep it away from bears when you’re camping) to keep her from eating all of our food. She is very creative in finding ways to get onto the counters to get whatever may be up there.
She once at an entire pot of turkey soup (a big one!). Somehow she got it down and licked the pot clean.
Despite all that, she’s a joy!
Report Post »Anamah
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 7:56pmStop puppy mills!!! Millions of dogs suffer a terrible death or a painful life because there are too much production of dogs!!! Please ask your representatives to stop puppy mills. Missouri is one of the huge producers with shipping to pet stores in every state. This is a brutal commerce. Each dogs is a miracle of affection and each one should have a place a family or somebody willing to to care for. The first and most important step is to stop puppy mills in each state.
Report Post »FreedomIQ
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 8:22pmGet a clue!
Most of these shelter dogs arrive from Mexico nowadays, imported, then moved around, counted each time moved in order to inflate the figures for marketing purposes, all because there aren‘t enough true adoptable dogs to meet animal rights shelter cooperative’s demand. Most of the so-called puppy mills of yesterday do not even exist anymore. But the socialist animal rights organizations and the big-business shelters can’t raise money unless the public still thinks there is an overpopulation problem.
Oh! And most animal control agents are former activists who got their training from shelters and animal rights organizations such as HSUS. Most are NOT friends of pet ownership! They’re activists getting paid to lobby for more animal rights laws.
Report Post »chinqua
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 11:37pmFREEDOMIQ — Are you insane? If you, actually, think the govt is bringing in strays to “supply” animal shelters (that move them around to reflect numbers), you are totally nuts. Take a drive down any interstate highway or county road and count the stray body count. Take a drive through your local low income areas and look around at all the dogs roaming streets that are not neutered. Most of these offspring are dumped somewhere to survive on-their-own or are dumped at a local shelter. Shelters are full of puppies and kittens, as well as grown animals. Visit your local animal control or animal shelter and ask to attend their next euthanasia, which occurs either weekly or biweekly, depending on how much space needs to be made available. Animal shelters are NOT lacking for animals to fill their facilities. They surely do NOT have a need to “move” animals around to juggle numbers. Instead, they only have to rely on idiots that refuse to spay or neuter their animals and the back-yard and professional breeders to keep a flood of helpless animals revolving through their doors. Before making-up mindless notions – - get your facts!
Report Post »YepImaConservative
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 7:43pmGreat story. But the name “Milagro?” Ay caramba! Even the “Miracle” dog is having to learn Spanish!
Report Post »FreedomIQ
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 9:03pmHe probably was raised by a Mexican “puppy mill” for shelter sale. The dog probably already speaks Spanish. I doubt the writer of this story did the appropriate research on that one though.
Report Post »NitroXpress
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 7:14pmMy last 2 dogs, Yellow lab puppy who has Epilespy, and a 3/4 female Basset Hound. I have had dogs all of my 49 yrs and these 2 are some of the best ever. I also just adopted a mutt female pup, Babie that just showed up at the house. funny thing is the Basset doesn’t like any other dogs besides my lab. Her and Babie are best friends. Adopt don’t buy. The only dog I have ever bought cost me 6 bucks. The price of the puppy worming meds she needed.
Report Post »Jenny Lind
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 7:13pmI have 2 puppymill schnauzers, they have health problems,but I considered them rescues and I wouldn’t trade them. My third schnauzer was my real rescue-one day away from death, (actually adopted before the others), who became our dog mentor and has taught us so much about companion animals. I become incensed when people let their animals have “just one litter so my kids can see it” and then the animals end up in pounds, and death. There are so many animals needing homes that to not spay or neuter is the most irresponsible behavior I can think of for supposedly “animal lovers”. I’ll soon lose my 16 year old boy, and I thank God for every day he has blessed our lives, and that my husband insisted that we take the little hairball home and save his life. Sometimes I feel like he saved us. What a gift he has been.
Report Post »thankyouvets
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 7:09pmi just wish veterinarians would bring the spay/neuter price down.
Report Post »FreedomIQ
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 8:42pmWhy bother bringing the price down when you can charge 10 times that amount once the dog blows an ACL tendon in its knee. Dogs spayed and neutered at many many times at risk of requiring TPLO surgery because the proper hormones for health have been snipped.
In fact, tons of very expensive veterinary problems are created starting at an early age because growth hormones have been inhibited due to sterilization. Think of of your own children if the failed to have proper growth hormones because your kids were sterilized prior to puberty. The same principle applies.
Yes, a sterilized animal is a bit easier to care for although containment during heat cycles and a bit of oxycleaner for the blood spots is really all it requires.
The best age (if you are going to sterilize) is around 18 months to two years of age. Only then can your dog reach its full body potential. But after that age, sterilization caues health risks far beyond those of intact animals. That‘s a fact that most vets won’t tell you.
Report Post »flatbroke
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 6:47pmTo the people who want to let Dogs roam free, and die as intended, dogs like this who are domesticated then are allowed to roam free will form packs with other dogs, but not form packs like wolves would, because wolves fear humans, these former pets would have no fear of humans, and form packs, and attack pets, and children, and adults. this has happened in my town, a child was mauled and killed by a pack of feral dogs or ( former pets). people please care for your animals as if they are a member of your own family, because they are, spay and neuter.
Report Post »Marci
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 7:31pmThat’s horrible! I will never understand abusing animals. EVER. We domesticated them, we have a responsibility to them. If you can’t commit to care for them through their life, don’t get one. Kind of like the sugar glider craze going on right now. I don’t think those should be pets. Have a friend who got two of them. I am sure when she is tired of them, out they go. A lot of them being sold are pets people gave up on.
Report Post »blazingaway
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 6:45pmYes if there is one area of life which could and most likely should be regulated it’s the puppy mills.
Report Post »There shouldn’t be all these restrictions on individual dog owners who own a few dogs and have a litter or two of puppies. But people who own dogs solely for the purpose of breeding them for profit are wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.
FreedomIQ
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 8:33pmCommercial breeders are already regulated by the USDA and state organizations. In fact, within the next ten years, it is expected that breeding inside the U.S. will not be able to keep up with demand by the public for dogs as pets. That is why shelters are importing and transporting from outside the U.S. to the tune of about half a million puppies a year…and that’s not what they breed themselves to meet their demand. No one will ever be able to quantify that number though. The biggest problem is misinformation/propaganda that has become cultural myth as well as so many municipalities and states passing intrusive regulations on breeders. The profit margin on breeding puppies isn’t enough. That is why so many breeders and hobby breeders simply are stopping. It’s too expensive.
But the public is still dooped by profitable humane societies and mealy-mouthed animal control activists.
Report Post »scout n ambush
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 6:44pmMost people who work at animal shelters do so because they love animals.There is a problem with irresponsible pet owners not the pets they only do what nature intended, but i could not put them in a gas chamber .
Report Post »FreedomIQ
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 8:47pmYes, most volunteers (that is) do so because they love animals. However, those who run the inner circle of most shelters are a different lot. Over the last 20 or so years, animal rights activists have used the Saul Alinsky model to co-opt the shelters and animal welfare organizations of old. Now they run big business operations that get away with unbelievable cruelty. If a dog doesn’t bring in the money more than the cost of care, it is transported to another shelter (and counted) or simply killed (and counted). Then the public is sold a bill of goods: “We didn’t have room for him”!
As for so-called No Kill Shelters, they’re some of the worst. They raise lots of money then outsource the euthanizing to other facilities. Again…counting and marketing. Total Leftist Fraud!
Report Post »Countrygirl1362
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 6:34pmAdopt don’t shop. Only one person will get this dog. I just pray that the hundreds that don’t get this dog, will adopt another dog from the shelter.
Report Post »FreedomIQ
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 8:51pmHope that shelter import you adopted (for a fee, by the way) didn’t bring in an exotic disease from Mexico or Puerto Rico! You can thank all these shelters for spreading diseases such as heartworm all over the country, ex. after Hurricane Katrina. And those are just the ones that originated FROM America.
Report Post »Tronix
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 10:35pmAdopting is such a blessing, that you don’t fully understand it until you do it.
Report Post »Anamah
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 6:19pmPlease people, ask our representatives to make puppies mills illegal in this country. We need to ban all commercial puppy mills. If you would be able to see the cruelty of this business you would agree is unacceptable. It is so sick to treat animals as inanimed objects producing in line, caged for their entire life, defenseless dogs condemned to reproduce to their limits. We sacrifice millions of unwanted animals in thousands of “ shelters” simply because there are too much and simply nobody are going to care.
Report Post »Salamander
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 6:34pmIf people would vote with their $$$, there could be no more puppy mills! They are there only because they have economic value. Consumers can easily put a stop to this! Instead of dropping by your local pet store to pick up a mill-hound, why not do a little research and go visit some breeders, get in involved in the process, visit an animal shelter, think about pet ownership and responsibilities, and then buy one from a rescue operation or a respectable breeder! And, once you get your pet, do NOT suffer the delusion that you should breed your animal! People I know who have done so, other than professional breeders, regret it! It is a lot of work. The pups don’t arrive at a convenient time, and they disrupt the household, your job, etc. until you have placed them!
Report Post »ADNIL
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 6:14pmRemember, dog spelled backwards is God. Somebody upstairs was looking out for him that day. The thought of the other dogs dead from gas rips my guts out. I have always had dogs and prefer them to most people.
Report Post »GJPinks
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 6:11pmThese animal shelters don’t want to put the animals “to sleep”. They are forced to, otherwise they end up with thousands of mouths to feed and they just can’t handle it. Please Please Spay and Neuter your pets. It worked wonders when Hillary had Bill fixed. (sorry, I couldn’t resist that last one)
Report Post »LeeroyJenkins
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 5:53pmIf a dog wants to be free, it should be able to be free. I hate the kill shelters and dogs while domestic can and will catch food. Leave them alone and let them die as God intended…
Report Post »Salamander
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 6:22pmBelieve me, you DON’T want feral dogs roaming your neighborhood. Soon they form packs and hunt and maraud. They are susceptible to rabies. And they present a special hazard to children, the elderly and automobile traffic. Care for your pets–period!
Report Post »Amica
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 7:51pmYou can not be serious.
Report Post »AxelPhantom
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 11:10pmRoy, sorry but you are living in la-la land. We have 6 dogs all but 2 were dumped by someone who thought the country was a good place to let them run free. We have 4 cats, for the same reason. They show up bit up by other dogs or coyotes, usually lame and mangy. Their ribs and hips are showing and all in all suffering. We have had to put 5 other dogs down at our own expense because their organs were shutting down due to starvation. People who dump their animals in the rural areas are irresponsible cowards!
Report Post »Tronix
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 12:09amWhen you get a pet, and especially when you take the animal from the streets, you are committed to take care of the animal. I mean, if you have a bit of warn blood in your veins. Due some past experience in my family, I was pretty sure I would never have another dog for the rest of my life, even though I love them.
When I found my actual dog, was in a place and a moment I was not supposed to be, and I hesitated, and give it a serious thought, because, as an oath, I knew I couldn’t reverse my decision. So, I adopted him, and now I can’t express the blessing this dog is for me. He’s quite a character, and is a full member of our family. No matter what, now we are going together until the end, especially in these difficult times.
Check your commitment before you get a pet, and be honest with yourself. Nobody is putting a gun in your head, and don’t do it if you are not 100% sure you are going to be able to take care of that animal for the next 10 years or so. Most of the dogs out there are because of irresponsible people that don’t care, and sadly but true, stray animals can be a health risk for humans.
Report Post »Countrygirl1362
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 5:42pmBefore every one goes after the animal control employees, remember they are only doing the job that is required because of so many irresponsible pet owner.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 5:52pmAre you supporting… Control and Termination of the Animals… or the Irresponsible Pet Owners?
Report Post »8jrts
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 5:53pmcountrygirl,
Report Post »You are sooo correct!! Many responsible breeders will take a dog back if you can’t keep it, but they also look for quality owners so that doesn’t happen. Remember people…quality breeders DO NOT sell pups to pet stores…only puppy mills do. Save a life….Adopt a shelter dog today.
FreedomIQ
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 8:55pmVery few are irresponsible. More than 50 percent of Americans have at least one dog in the household. If most were irresponsible, there would be an epidemic. However, most animal control agents are animal rights trained. They aren’t trustworthy.
After all, who do you think is lobbying your local city council for all these pet-related laws? They are the smart animal rights activists. They are now getting paid with your tax dollars to do PeTA’s dirty work.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 5:39pmAwwwwwwww………… I want to add him to my canine family!!!
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 5:37pm“Animal Shelter” demons!
Report Post »Countrygirl1362
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 6:31pmAnimal control has a tough job. What would you suggest they do with the thousands of animals they cannot find homes for a year. And at least these people are working, no it is not a glamour job, but a heart breaking job. People take in animals and then go on vacation, the dog digs or barks, they don’t get it spayed and the dog or cat has off spring, who gets called to deal with the animal they all of a sudden no longer want? Not another Irresponsible, animal control gets called. Do you really think that these people working animal control enjoy doing what they have to do? If you do you are wrong. And yes the employees carry the night mares for the rest of their lives and yes they do love animals. you don’t ever want someone that does not love animals working animal control. What animal control employes don’t love is the Irresponsible pet owners that keep them in a job.
Report Post »Jenny Lind
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 7:14pmAmen to countrygirl!
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 12:00amIt is not that I have not thought of your point nor understand it… it is… you fail to see the identical reasoning used by the Nazi’s in the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials!
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