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STRAY DOGS CATS IN THE COUNTRY

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JR.Frye

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STRAY DOGS IN THE COUNTRY

This is sad but true, Where I live is 20 miles from any Podunk town no town is larger than 400 people, they have no law enforcement and no dog catcher , the city Mayer
Catches the dogs and cats and takes them to the country and turns them loss and we the farmers are left to deal with it. We have talked the sheriff that covers our area but he is
35 miles away, his answer to the problem you folk’s out there in the country take care of
It the best way you can. Now this is sad. With him saying that, that is what we do.
With the way money is tight to day we are seeing more and more dogs and cats than ever before.If we catch them and take them to a ARL in a bigger city they wont take them because they came from the country,and if a ARL would take they would charge $150.00 Why I have no idea why.WHAT CAN WE SAY OR DO.
JR.Frye
 
we have the same problem here i dont know what to do, here its the city people dumping unwanted pets, for you it seems those city folks have found a loophole to throw all the strays into, by placing them in the county, the only thing ive come up with is to tell that mayor that if he doesnt stop it you'll contact peta [ i hate peta] but since domestic dogs and tamed house cats dont have the nessesary hunting skills to survive in the wild, and will eventually wind up killing your farm animals to live they might put pressure on that city to do something different , also mandatory spaying or nutering for animals living in town helps this problem a bunch
 
Years ago we had someone dump a dog and its puppies out by the neighbors house. He happened to be there when it was done and wrote down the tag number. Called the sheriffs office and asked for the owner of that vehicle, they declined but gave it to him once he told them what happend. They said take the dog and puppies back to the owner which only lived 3 miles away. He pulled in their drivaway about the time they did and the pup owner swore up and down he didn't do it. He little girl happened to know all of the puppies name though. He finally accepted them.
 
Very much like the discussion below on the idiots running their dogs in the road on purpose. Call the sheriff's office here, he passes the buck to the over worked under paid animal control officer, who only responds after MANY contacts.
The only solution I see has a fancy name- "euthanization". That should raise some howls in this society that values animal life over human life.
 
This won't be real popular but about 10 years ago we had a stray dog problem in Northern Il.and the warden told all the local farmers to shoot any stray dogs we seen,the problem went away in about three months,we lost 13 sheep to wild dogs in one night.Coyotes won't kill that many just for fun,so we knew it was wild dogs.We very seldom see a stray dog now.
 
Different mind set now than it was 50 years ago in the country.

Not many stray dogs then.

Problems the same but it was taken care of without comments.

Bleeding hearts started in the citys then towns and now to the country side.

I was raised on a narrow gravel road that had two houses in a mile and it was seldom traveled. Unwanted dogs and cats were dumped out quite often. The cats became barn pest control if they cared to stay. A good useful dog got fed and taken care of and if we could not find room for another dog at the time we didn't let it starve.

Yall would be surprised how simple things were before most people looked to the government to take of simple chores.
 
Do the only humane thing. Catch them and shoot them if possible, if you can't catch them, shoot to kill it the first shot. Don't subscribe to the hick idea of poisoning or using them for target practice.

Dave
 
Yeah, too bad so few people want to stand on their own feet anymore.


John Bernard Books (The Shootist):
"I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people and I expect the same from them."


Christopher
 
Just don't let the animal rights pains in the @ss get a toe in the door! You'll be d@mned sorry you were born.
 
Sort of damned if you do and the same if you don't when despatching a pet running lose from the ones who dump them. Durning the 50's had a collie no tail dumped near the farm. Dad cut off the chain around it neck. He did not what the dog, it kept comming back so we kept it. Best skunk killer I ever seen. Watched it kill 6 one afternoon in August and then tried to bury itself. Each one sprayed in his mouth. Nay a hog nut hit the ground when we worked the hogs.

Some strays work out-have one in the family now. A brown and tan looking something beagle from WV. Great watch dog. About 30 pounds I watched until I broke up the fight with a 60 pound collie it went bight for bight with the
collie.
 
Not, sure if i could shoot a dog, Cats, iv'e done it before and will do it again. Its easier to killem far away so you aint got to see em. I use a 30-06 so i know they'll be dead. Just my opinion. Toby
 
Dogs running loose is a subject that burns my butt. At my old home (in the suburbs) there was a loose dog that my elderly neighbors fed. (one bowl a day in fact of table scraps) Well.....I move in and this dog doesnt like me, even though it is my house. This dog growls and barks at me while I am outside, etc. Well.......I didnt take a shot at it or leave a bowl of radiator fluid out for it but I wish I would have. (it was a German sheppard) When dogs dont have a home or master they can and do run wild, and can get rabies since it never goes to the vet. Better off just plinking the dog in the head to protect a kid from getting bit. Unless a person want to take in Rover and give it a home.
Okay throw me to the wolves with that info.
 
One summer we had a heck of a lot of stray dogs coming by and I was plugging them as soon as they set foot on the farm. Then that fall a 16 year old neighbor boy was killed in a traffic accident. A week or so later his dog was running the neighborhood looking for him. He had trained this dog and won ribbons with it at the county fair. I'd never seen the dog before so when it came on my farm I darned near shot it but something told me not to so I put the gun away. A few hours later the tearful dad drove in looking for it. Since that summer I haven't had the guts to dispatch another one. Jim
 
I live on a TWP road that doesn't get much traffic. We get several dog's & cat's dumped here but the Amish are much worse ! When we see a feed bag in the road ditch you can bet it is a litter of kitten's or pup's they didn't want . They stick them in a feed bag , tie it shut & toss it in the ditch for them to die a long slow death . I caught doing it one day & told him every time I find that again I'm shooting the next horse that goes past .
 
I understand what you guys are talking about. We have the same problem down here. But we have a lady that runs her dog by my shop every day. Sure be glad when summer gets here. So she can switch to her summer running uniform. Not sure what kind of dog she has.
 
If he knows the mayor of the nearest town is the one dumping them off,then thats where he should take them. bill m.
 
I'd say if you can prove the Mayor is setting them loose you can cause a BIG stink. That would be highly irregular and most likely illegal activity. I am surprised the Sheriff was not more interested.
 
The way a man treats his animals is a good relection on how I look on him as a person. Someone who dumps amimals it's not too good. Stan
 
I have to say that most of our dogs, and all good, have been scrappers that wandered up looking for a home and food. Sad, but true. Not a thoroughbred with papers in the whole lot of them, and none of us ever minded, and I don't spose ever will.

Mark
 
We have the same problem over here, but it is not dogs or cats, it is homeless people coming around asking for handouts, snooping around to see what they can steal to pawn for their alcohol/drugs. Maybe I can do like you guys and 'plink' them. What do you guys think. Hey, maybe I can do that with them witnesses that want to come around and pray in my living room, or the other people that are driving by snooping at my tractors.
 
If you know it is the Mayor then get a couple of others and confront him,, let it be publicly known if he won't cooperate.The area newspaper could be a start. What they love mostly are VOTES.But you must have facts and/or witnesses.
 
[i:654c4848f0]he only thing ive come up with is to tell that mayor that if he doesnt stop it you'll contact peta [ i hate peta] but since domestic dogs and tamed house cats dont have the nessesary hunting skills to survive in the wild[/i:654c4848f0]

That's the type of cruelty PETA should be fighting. Pets that are abandoned is just as cruel as physical abuse and neglect. I'm sure PETA would love to fight the mayor, but then they'd turn around and fight you for being a farmer...but then how many domesticated animals do peta members release into the wild/country as a demonstration?

you know, if you dig deep enough, a pet is an imprisoned animal, so the peta members with pets are hypocrites :)

what can you do? paradox at every corner.

karl f
 

You are right, we have seen her drop one dog
but we can prove who is doing it now we do not
know if they do it during the day or at night, Tuff call right.
JR.Frye
 
Any one who shoots my Border Collie would be at risk.All dogs get loose at times and cause no problems.Ive done animal control here and any body that shoots a dog with out reason will end up with a felony record and no guns.I picked up a hound that got lost while hunting.He was 6 miles from home.I found his owner who became a good friend and is a man who would help any one who was in trouble.
 
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