Drop Offs, the Unexpected, and the down right strange

[apbgv]

One night I was half asleep in bed my dogs started running around all excited. Look down oh ferret, Cartee did you get out? Picked it up huh this is a fat little ferret and a girl/ what???? Mind you carter at this time was like 6 1/2 yrs at that time not in the greatest health. Called my parents are you playing a trick on me??? Nope. This little girl got in my house, I think she followed one of the cats in

Carter passed away several mos later and I adopted her out to a friend. I also found a stray leghorn in town by my house, way to flighty for me. found her a home, then there are various cats who have stayed, and a dog who I placed who I miss dearly but he got a great home.

 

[reallemons1]

Here is one I found in a Maple tree in our yard at the end of August. It was dark and I had just come home and went out to feed. The dogs were barking at the tree and I heard a little squeek. He was setting in the fork of the tree and about 10 weeks old at the time. His name is Maple.

 

[crtrlovr]

Maple is a beauty! All of our critters with the exception of one cat (out of 8), and probably half of the 37 birds have been rescues, strays that came & stayed, or drop-offs. Our loving big Siamese we lost this past summer in a drowning accident was dropped off by someone who obviously knew us. My husband and I were doing a marriage & family seminar at a local church on that weekend, and while we were gone Saturday morning, someone brought the very pregnant Siamese cat along with a bag of cat food and poured out several little piles of food. When I first saw the food bag & piles of food, I thought someone knew we had several cats and was being nice. Then I got afraid someone was trying to poison the cats we had by putting something in the food. I rapidly swept it all up and threw it away, and that was when I found the cat, scared out of her mind, hunched up against the side of the house by the water hose. None of our friends would 'fess up but I know that SOMEBODY knows where she came from. Did we love her with all our hearts? Absolutely. Was it a rotten thing for someone to do her that way? Absolutely. It was cowardly, it was irresponsible, and it was NOT the right way to go about trying to find her a home. She got a home here, in spite of the way it was done.

 

[Goat_Walker]

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He is so handsome! He looks like a lion cub in the face, but with my wisdom and full of mischief!

 

[camjac]

This is Bridget. My neighbors found her on a walk and she was living under a bridge the crossed over a small creek. They found her on one side and a baby deer on the other. They said it sounded like Jurassic park with all of the sounds they were making. Anyway, I went with them on their walk two days later and here she came again, meowing and walking up to us, then following us for a bit. I told my friends that if she was there on the way back I was taking her home. Well, she was there and she is now my baby! Bridget was starved and not spayed and in heat (I couldn't figure out why she roamed the halls at night making such a racket at first). Our vet thinks that she is a pure lilac point siamese and we think that she is beautiful! She is not the brightest cat but what she lacks in brains she makes up for in personality! (By the way, my friends got a major butt chewing for leaving her there for those two extra days!

This is her when I first found her! She is so pitiful looking!

This is her now!

This is our other rescue that we got from the humane society! Her name is Sweetie and she had been at the shelter for 4 months. We went to pick out a cat the day after Christmas and she was the one we fell in love with! The shelter worker said that she had promised Sweetie a home for the holidays and was heartbroken when no one ever chose her before Christmas.

But all of the workers were so glad that she went home with us that day after!

 

[Wifezilla]

19 years ago right before Thanksgiving there was a horrible snow storm. About 1am I woke up...at first I thought it was all the wind that woke me. As I was trying to get back to sleep I heard this sound. It was hard to hear what it was because of the wind, and it was hard to see anything outside because of the snow. I finally went out in my jammies and found a 2 month old kitten. She now looks like this...

 

[sunnychooks]

We adopted a stray goat several years ago. She wandered in and decided she liked to hang out with our sheep. I tried placing found ads in 3 newspapers and got 5 phone calls. Two people said they would take her if her owners were not found and three people had lost goats, but not that one! We ended up keeping her (and getting her a goatie friend). They passed away within months of each other. She was responsible for us catching the "goat fever" and now we have three!!!

 

[seedcorn]

Largest thing dropped off was a 3/4 grown black dog. He was larger than any great dane I'd ever seen. Stepped out of my truck wondering what kind of disposition it had. Couldn't have been friendlier. My wife was cowering in house afraid to come out.

Kept it 4 weeks when a co-worker said he wished he owned that dog. I told him he could. He left in 2 ton truck sitting on his lap. Had him cleaned up, neutered and slept in bed w/his daughter. Unfortunately, he got hit by car who didn't stop for school bus when his daughter was getting off. Saved her but he didn't make it.

Smallest thing was a dachsund cross (found by my wife in middle of snow storm by creek). It slept w/my daughter and loved to jump in my lap in evenings. It got killed by pit bull which kept pit from my 5 year old daughter.

 

[mirecipes]

I was out in my back yard picking up trash after recovering from a nasty car accident..

I was waddling around on my cane when I saw this white dog just out of my field of vision..

At first I thought it was a friends dog..But this new dog was nipping at my trash bag..

I looked at her and realized she wasn't my friends dog, but a new dog, and that she had recently had pups..

I found out later that she used to live up on the corner, and that her owners had moved out suddenly and had left her behind..

She is the cream colored dog in my avatar..Her son is the black and white spotted one

She is now fixed, and we have a 6 foot high stockade fence..
She is an escape artist and a chicken killer..

But I love her anyways!
I'm teaching her son that chicks are -not- snacks