Dumped animals- I'm not a shelter!

[Cats Critters]

There is nothing really that works, you just learn to live with dumps out of a 9 cats one is a dump and the rest are descended from strays and dumps.
But we don't get many dumped dogs ether and of the two must resent (when I was younger and before I got chickens). One came out of the woods one day and me and my little sister ran up to it, lucky it was friendly because it was a huge lab mix (think 5 year olds could ride it) but it was mean to are old beagle so it went to a shelter and they called and told us it had found a home. The other showed up a couple years ago hung around for about a week then lift.

 

[Lorettawyandotte]

When I first moved out here to the sticks in 1985, every week it was some dog or a group of dogs...I had a pack get into my very large duck flock and run them into the forest...I never got them all back...I have had horses, cows, pigs, cats, dogs and believe it or not, an Emu dumped on my ground...I don't know what is wrong with people who seem to think country people are just rabid to take in their unwanted animals...it is just nuts...it has been quiet lately but with the economy in the tank, the dog is the first sacrifice...I expect I will be seeing some...I had a large black feline in the chicken yard a few days ago...it was before I let them out or the roosters would have sent it packing...I have no baby birds to worry over today but have 30 on the way at the end of the month...

 

[conroy]

Well maybe someone on the forum can take the pup off your hands. Sorry to hear you are getting dumped on you are a good person for not dumping them on someone else. I live in suburbia and grew up here too. When I was a kid there were so many strays that ended up on our doorstep. I remember kids in my highschool telling me they "just started walking the dog in the direction of your house but he ended up there on his own." Our latest pup was found by some of my husband's workers trying to cross a 4 lane road. She was only 8 weeks old

but now she's spoiled rotten.

I wish I had some advice to give ya on how to stop it. Best of luck with the pup.

 

[AussieSharon]

I was talking to a lady recently who had 4 horses dumped in her cow paddock. They went out to feed the cows and found the horses, gate closed and all.

 

[Wolf-Kim]

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I would have to agree with the suggestion of a security camera, or even a sign stating that you have one. By setting up a security camera, if you get any camera shots of license plate numbers, then you can report them to the police and animal control. It is illegal to dump, and maybe if you start cracking down on dumping, the word will spread that they shouldn't be dumped, at least not at your place.

Also, if you do not, go ahead and post signs stating 'No Trespassing' and 'Private Property' and if you catch them dumping on your land specifically you can report them for trespassing as well as dumping.

But all in all, there isn't much of a way to stop it. People feel that dumping a dog at the end of a driveway or in the midst of farmer's field's and "setting it free" is better than dropping it off that the feared "dog catcher's". Since when did disease, starvation, and predation become more humane than euthanasia? It's irresponsible and get's me fired up. Living in the country we experience the same thing, and the only thing to do is what you are. Trying to rehome animals and take them to the humane society/animal control when you are unnsuccessful. I know it's not your responsibility, but when you have a society of slackers, unfortunately it's the good honest folk who have to pick up the slack and do what's best for the animals.

So far my mother has rehomed a mange-ridden pittbull that was dumped, and still has another dog that was dumped. It's tied out near her chicken coop and currently keeps the cats, coons, and fox at bay.

-Kim

 

[4 Love of Baby Chickens]

People sometimes dump their Animals where I live. Last spring someone dumped 5 dogs on my land. 4 of the dogs became a pack and I was worried about my chickens. They sure were interested in them. But my dog Blackie snarled and kept them away from my chickens. Then they tried to get the cat that I had then. Poor Socks climbed up a walnut tree almost to the top. Blackie snarled and chased them away. But I couldn't get her down for a hour or 2. The animal shelter captured 4 of 'em. I took the youngest one to the shelter. I wish I could've kept him. He was so cute. I called him "Puppy".

 

[Catalina]

Growing up almost all of my pets were dumped strays.
Including hamsters and a pet rat!!

 

[chickenannie]

I get animals dumped here at my farm all the time. A few months ago, someone dumped a small calf off in our pasture! We knew it was purposefully dumped because there was no other way for it to have gotten through the fencing. We found it a home but only after taking care of it for 3 weeks (several milkings a day, antibiotic shots when it got the runs, etc etc).

In the past 3 years, I've had 14 cats dumped here (one kitten was tossed out of a car in 10 degree temps onto my driveway). My own cat is a stray that landed here. My neighbor had a dog dumped at her house last year.

It is unbelievable to me that people do this -- i had no idea this kind of thing went on until I moved to this farm. It makes me realize how ignorant people are. I have found homes for several of the cats but I'm sick of it too! I'm know these are often house pets because they are super tame, and often want to come inside my house.

It is expensive to me because I end up having to re-home them or care for them and feed them.

I don't think the signs would work because people usually do this at night.

 

[sundance]

we live on a dead end road way back in the woods and have animals dumped on us all the time. I think people just think their pets will catch the wild rabbits or something to live, Don't they understand that any animal that has had their food set in front of them has no idea how to find food in the wild My DD has 3 cats, I DGD has 2 dogs and I have 4 dogs..Our county has no animal shelter, they have a listing in the phone book, but they don't have the money to build the shelter yet.

marrie

 

[ole-crone]

Maybe we need to ask local newspapers to do a front page story about the problem! Part of it has to be ignorance.

I never intended on being a cat lady but we have 8 cats!. All but two were dumped. The latest is a purebred Himalayian. I'd noticed her running around this past summer and assumed she belonged to our new neighbor. But when we picked her up and discovered she was starving to death it dawned on us she must not be the neighbors (at least we're hoping they are that stupid). This cat had been let loose no doubt to 'catch mice' on the farms. Poor thing was declawed so how was she to do that. She's also had her voice box removed. Wonderful, sweet, beautiful cat - complete with pellets, yep she's also been shot a few times.

A couple of years ago we also had a chicken dumped here. Ugliest thing you'd ever seen. Looked just like a factory hen. I wondered if she had fallen off a truck on the way to a mink farm. (Around here, the egg factories take their 2 year old chickens to be fed to minks). She stayed ugly for two years. After finally going into a complete molt last year, she came out looking gorgeous but it took 3 years to get there. I've no idea how old she is, but she is now a healthy looking hen.

I think it is just going to get worse. Now that I've read about the horses and calf - I wonder what will show up in our pasture.