One of the neighbors moved out two weeks ago, abandoning their two dogs. Several of us in the neighborhood had been keeping their food and water supplied until we could re-home them, but Animal Control came out yesterday–and within three hours had put them down because they had been identified as being ‘agressive.’ I wasn’t there when that happened, so I don’t know what behavior they saw, but I’ve never known them to be agressive. Terrified is more likely. But, unfortunately for these two, they saw it differently.
People who just abandon animals deserve a special level of hell.
About 12 years ago, we took in a young cat who had belonged to a neighbor down the street. According to another neighbor, they decided they didn’t want the cat after all, and just stopped feeding it or letting it in the house. He was a real lover who, sadly, died 3 years later. At least we were able to give him 3 good years.
This is a horrible story. Poor dogs. First their people abandon them, then they are chased by people they don’t know, and then are put to death, probably while terrified.
I don’t understand how some humans can lack compassion for other living things, especially those that shared a home with them. 
Ugh. Poor dogs. May the people who abandoned them rot in hell.
Perhaps the people who abandoned the dogs were simply overwhelmed, struggling to cope with their own changing circumstances, and irredeemably evil.
Poor babies. No advocates. Where they so-called “aggressive” breeds?
StG
Don’t know about the breeds. The darker one looks a little like a chow.
Poor puppies. There’s no big mystery here. Animal control does not work on psychic guidance, and had no way to know the dogs were there. Somebody called them, and whatever they said led AC to believe the dogs were a danger to humans.
I wouldn’t recommend letting your mind dwell on the question of “who?”. It’s just a crazy-making useless waste of time. It’ll be the last person you’d expect, and they’ll be unlikely to admit it.
Well done you, and the other neighbors who stepped up to help. I hope you’ll step outside the frustration long enough to pat yourselves on the back.
Right now I’m looking at our kitty, curled up on a pillow about three feet away, happy, fed, watered and pampered. Her owners left the state and decided that their new kitten was more wanted than this 3-year-old, so we took her in. She’s lovable, playful and social and fills the hole left by our much-loved cat who died a couple of years ago. She could die tomorrow, but at least she’s had a home where she’s welcome. I’ll never understand how people can just leave pets to fend for themselves. The outcome is seldom a good one.
That’s just so friggin’ sad.
That breaks my heart. You and your neighbors are good people.
The original owners should be taken to a strange place, preferably in the middle of the desert, in the summer, and left to fend for themselves.
Near a highway with very big, fast-moving trucks is good too.
That’s what happened with a cat we had while living in North Carolina. The humans moved out, leaving their two adolescent cats to fend for themselves.
A neighbor (friend of ours) started feeding them but couldn’t take them in due to allergies, so asked around for someone to take them. Or rather, “him”, as his sister disappeared within a week.
Sweetest cat EVER.
And the same might be said for animal control officers who are so ready to put down animals at the first whimper of a complaint from whoever-the-hell animal-hating neighbor calls it in because they think the animal is scary or something.
Pig-fuckers all of them!
This. Good on ya, Earl, I hope those pups knew how much they had some great people on their side before they were taken. 
There was a YouTube video about dog abandoned along with the property by relatives of a man who passed away.:mad:
Ah fuck, I wish I hadn’t looked at the pictures. I’m usually not very emotional about these kind of things, but that got me a bit.
The only problem with that is that they could hitch a ride back home. Better to leave them far from any roads or landmarks.
Either of those dogs could make a mess of a person - and shelters would face criminal prosecution if they placed a dog they had reason to believe it could be aggressive.
So, big-hearted folks - what do you do with dogs who snap at an animal control officer?
There are only so many folks both able and willing to take on an aggressive dog.
These threads remind me of the poor folks on Craigs List looking for that cute little cottage with pretty flowers that they can live in for the price of a small bedroom in a not-very-good neighbor hood. Oh yes, and that has to include cable, wifi, laundry, and kitchen. And no deposit.
They aren’t going to find anything close, and not every abandoned dog is going to find a new loving home.
My sympathies are more for the people.
And, just a little more info:
The neighbors did come back a couple of times after their initial move to pick up some miscellaneous things left behind. On one trip, they told the Ms. Tucker that they were going to have to kennel the dogs for a few days before they could take them with them since they didn’t have a place set up for them yet. We later found out that the same woman was the one who had authorized animal control to come pick them up. The earlier story was an out and out lie.
But it wasn’t a total loss. We did manage to rescue this year-old torbie, which was also scheduled to be picked up.
BTW, the dog weren’t much older, the light brown dog about three years old, and the chocolate one was about a year and a half.