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<blockquote data-quote="Star*" data-source="post: 414970" data-attributes="member: 4964"><p>I do remember a certain Donna running through neighbors yards in bathrobe and slippers chasing a certain Boston Terrier - OMG I still roll thinking about that one. </p><p>Mutt - We don't have a 'wonderful' animal control here either. Lax, lame. We called one time when our baby was stolen and put up posters and said "Please help find - reward" - called the place and it's about an hour ride from our house, the woman would have to walk the distance from my dining room table to the fridge to look and see if anyone new was brought in and she refused. Then we asked her if there was any bulldogs and she said "Yes there is." So we headed out. We got there and there was a Beagle, three labs, and two mixed mutts. Not that I was picking on her intelligence but surely if you work for animal control you can tell a Beagle that passes your desk from a Pitbull. It broke my heart. We never recovered our baby. Other times when we have tried to catch vicious dogs at large we have been told that we must have them available on a leash for them to 'pick up' at their convenience. As far as dog catcher? That is long gone. Conveniently tied up on a leash that we don't get back. </p><p> </p><p>We asked to have a cage brought out for a particularly nasty lab that was terrorizing the lady down the roads chickens and we were told to come get it. The ladys husband called and said he was going to shoot this 'curr' and was told by animal control if he did? He would be arrested for animal abuse. He would have to prove beyond the shadow of a doubt the lab was vicious. If he shot the dog on a day that no chickens were killed? The man would go to court and be fined over $2500.00. We were also told unless a dog came into our yard and bit one of us - not caused our dogs to mame or damage each other even though at one time one of them needed stitches from biting the other due to the stray, and we shot the stray to stop the fighting? We would also be considered animal abusers and be fined and ticketed. If our dogs were out - even in their own yard, tied? And a stray attacked and we shot the stray? We would be fined, and ticketed. We were amazed at the level of stupidity - but the sheriff said "prove to me that the dog wasn't just wandering through your yard uneventful." We said "Well if there is damage to our dogs?" He said "Your dogs should have been in a fenced in area or penned up." OMG! Amazing. You do the right thing here and still can't win. So that's why we have taken the stand that we did. I'm not sure if I'm a hero or not - but I DO know I'm not allowing MORE unwanted puppies to come into a world where irresponsible pet 'owners' allow those animals to run loose too - out on the road, in the ditch - burns my hiney like a forest fire. </p><p> </p><p>OH LOOK - My calendar has BALLERINAS on it!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Star*, post: 414970, member: 4964"] I do remember a certain Donna running through neighbors yards in bathrobe and slippers chasing a certain Boston Terrier - OMG I still roll thinking about that one. Mutt - We don't have a 'wonderful' animal control here either. Lax, lame. We called one time when our baby was stolen and put up posters and said "Please help find - reward" - called the place and it's about an hour ride from our house, the woman would have to walk the distance from my dining room table to the fridge to look and see if anyone new was brought in and she refused. Then we asked her if there was any bulldogs and she said "Yes there is." So we headed out. We got there and there was a Beagle, three labs, and two mixed mutts. Not that I was picking on her intelligence but surely if you work for animal control you can tell a Beagle that passes your desk from a Pitbull. It broke my heart. We never recovered our baby. Other times when we have tried to catch vicious dogs at large we have been told that we must have them available on a leash for them to 'pick up' at their convenience. As far as dog catcher? That is long gone. Conveniently tied up on a leash that we don't get back. We asked to have a cage brought out for a particularly nasty lab that was terrorizing the lady down the roads chickens and we were told to come get it. The ladys husband called and said he was going to shoot this 'curr' and was told by animal control if he did? He would be arrested for animal abuse. He would have to prove beyond the shadow of a doubt the lab was vicious. If he shot the dog on a day that no chickens were killed? The man would go to court and be fined over $2500.00. We were also told unless a dog came into our yard and bit one of us - not caused our dogs to mame or damage each other even though at one time one of them needed stitches from biting the other due to the stray, and we shot the stray to stop the fighting? We would also be considered animal abusers and be fined and ticketed. If our dogs were out - even in their own yard, tied? And a stray attacked and we shot the stray? We would be fined, and ticketed. We were amazed at the level of stupidity - but the sheriff said "prove to me that the dog wasn't just wandering through your yard uneventful." We said "Well if there is damage to our dogs?" He said "Your dogs should have been in a fenced in area or penned up." OMG! Amazing. You do the right thing here and still can't win. So that's why we have taken the stand that we did. I'm not sure if I'm a hero or not - but I DO know I'm not allowing MORE unwanted puppies to come into a world where irresponsible pet 'owners' allow those animals to run loose too - out on the road, in the ditch - burns my hiney like a forest fire. OH LOOK - My calendar has BALLERINAS on it! [/QUOTE]
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