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| My neighbor has his dog chained outside. It is raining now and cold, 57 degrees. The dog gets tangled in his chain sometimes too and don't have water or food some of the time and I just really can't sleep for hurting so bad for the dog. He is a golden retriever, I think. I want to help it so much but am afraid of making the neighbor angry at me. I can't see why he would let it lay there in the cold steady rain all night. The nights will be getting colder and more rain, snow and ice for we live in Kentucky. I have to be careful with what I do. You never know what he might would do if he gets angry. Do you have any advice for me? I go several nights without sleep worried over the dog. Do you know how much this cold rain is affecting the dog with having to lay in it with no place to go? Maybe it is not hurting him as much as I think. It looks like his little body would be so cold and shaking. He is a young dog about one year or one and a half years old. I just don't know what to do about this situation. |
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| I just checked again on the dog and saw that he has found a way to get under a shed building. Providing his chain is not tangled he can get under the building. I'm so thankful to have found that he can. I just wanted to update. I will keep watch on him all I can. |
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| Call your local SPCA or Animal Control Officer. I was able to adopt my dogs because they were taken from a man who kept them chained outside with no shelter, water or food. |
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| That is heartbreaking and cruel. Once I had a situation just like that, where my delivery job took me through lots of neighborhoods and subdivisions. A black lab was chained in the side yard of one house. He would wrap his chain around a nearby tree, unable to unwind it. His "house" was really just a broken box full of holes. Believe it or not this was in a very nice upper-middle class neighborhood. He was out there every time I went by. There seemed to never be anyone home. I called the county animal control and told them the situation. They asked me for my first name, and fearing retaliation I gave them a false name (I know I'm bad) It was maybe a week later, that doggie was no longer there. I never heard what happened, but I hope and pray he was given a new home with people who loved and cared for him. Few things infuriate me more than cruelty to any animal, especially dogs! |
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| How heartbreaking.It makes me ill to think about the thousands of dogs that live their lives shackled 24/7/365. I found some info online about a group that has some suggestions about trying to help in a situation such as this one. Good luck. I hope you're able to help this poor dog. Thank you for trying to help. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Dogs Deserve Better
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| boots, you are a very good person to be concerned about that poor dog. I hope you will consider calling the ASPCA or animal control. The dog needs regular food and water which this creep is not providing. And he also needs appropriate shelter, not just a shed to crawl under. Check out the website I linked, a lady who got sick about dogs being chained started it and is trying to help as much as she can, all over the US. I noticed there aren't any representatives in Kentucky, but if you contact the organization, I am sure they can advice you what to do. If they can't help, please find other help for this poor dog. With cold weather coming, things will only get worse for him. And outdoor dogs need way more calories when it gets cold, he will starve in winter. That poor dog is lucky that you are concerned about him and willing to help, so many have no one to speak up for them. |
Here is a link that might be useful: dogs deserve better
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| dtkaty, I didn't see your post and that you had already posted the link, sorry. :o) |
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| No worries - it's a good things people know about this group. The word needs to get out. Their site is awesome & extremely inspiring. |
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| I really appreciate your emails back on this problem. It has helped me to have information from you on what to do to help this dog. I have even wanted to take a dog house to them and tell them it is a gift to their dog that I noticed it didn't have a house to get in out of the weather. I will check out the link, dogs deserve better, that you gave me. Your kind words back have helped my hurting heart for this sweet dog. I will keep trying to help him. Thank you so very much. |
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| You are a kind person to be concerned with this poor dog. When I look at my own dogs lying in their beds beside the heater on this cool rainy day, my heart cries for all those poor unfortunate ones who live chained out side. The group you got the link for is worth looking into. Call your animal control or HS . We have a similar group here in PA but I think they only work in this state. |
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| Are you within city limits? If not, call your local police or Sheriff, ask for animal control and explain the situation. If you're in the Louisville area, it's illegal for the dog to be chained more than an hour during the day. But, it appears chaining is allowed thru the night! See the link below. Are you, or family, able to take the dog if the guy was willing to let it go? I'd plant a seed in the neighbor's mind by saying you'd love to have a dog like he has and if he ever wants to get rid of it to let you know. Be prepared to take the dog on short notice! In Miss., ordinances in the area where my DM lives, do not require shelter.....just food and water. When you're dealing with laws like that getting help for an animal can be difficult! |
Here is a link that might be useful: Ordinances
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| In Miss., ordinances in the area where my DM lives, do not require shelter.....just food and water. When you're dealing with laws like that getting help for an animal can be difficult! Boy, isn't that the truth? My mother lived in town and those sights were rampant. She used to take food up the street to feed one of the poor animals where they'd leave its water dish to go dry. You can check to see what your local ordinances are, and if these cruel people are in violation, you can report it. Ask about their anonymity policy, first if you are afraid of retributions. |
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| I had to put my dog Duke down a month before his 14th birthday on monday and it was the hardest thing aside from losing my mother that I have ever had to go through. And as heartbroken as I am I have to stop and think about what a great life I gave my lab....inside the house, good food, plenty of water, treats, regular veterinary care and even a knee replacement in 2005 that cost $3,000. He slept in the bed until he got too old to jump up that high and then slept next to me in a warm and/or air conditioned house. People that get dogs and then basically abandon them really P*SS me off! Why do they bother? Dogs are social creatures and one of God's greatest gifts to mankind. Treating a dog like that is like spitting in God's eye IMO. Duane |
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| You are a good person, Boots2. Like everyone else here, my heart goes out to these poor dogs and cats that are not treated right. Like others have said, report this incident to Animal Control and if you are afraid of retaliation from this low-life neighbor, tell them you are afraid to give your name or give them a false name. (If you give a false name, call from another phone rather than yours.) At any rate, I would surely do something to help that poor unfortunate dog. I have so little regard for that "low-life" who is so cruel to that poor dog. |
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- Posted by schoolhouse (My Page) on Fri, Oct 15, 10 at 19:10
| boots2, I did that very thing once - bought a dog house for a needy dog. A fellow employee told me one day that the house next to her had a dog chained to the back porch. It had no shelter and the nights were beginning to turn cold. All it could do was reach the porch floor to lay down on. No, it was never let in the house day or night. I told her I would go buy a dog house if she felt the neighbors wouldn't get ticked off. She suggested that she would tell the neighbor that "someone had a dog house to give away, and would you like it for your dog?". So, I bought this nice big dog house, handmade from an Amish carpenter, and took it to her house. I never saw anyone so happy she could help! (she had no money so couldn't pay for the house herself). Can't remember much about it now, except that the neighbor did accept the dog house. |
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| boots, any update on the situation? I am so hoping you can help the poor dog. |
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| Hi to you all, I've been very busy this week taking care of my dad and my husbands parents. Since I talked to you last, I watched as the dog went for at least 2 days with no water. The owner's would come home and I did see the man feed them but didn't bother to water them. The thing is he will feed them from time to time but he will go days and not feed or water them or even check on them. They went away for a week and that was terrible. The white dog went for days with no water and food. I wanted to go so bad but was afraid to go on someone else's property. Finally one day toward the end of the week a different man and woman came together to check on the dogs and feed and water them. The man was very angry and said "this dog is starved to death for water". My husband happened to be outside and could hear them. I was so thankful they came. Oh, I have been forgetting to tell you that he has another dog that he has had just as long as the white one. This one is a husky looking dog with the short gray hair with the milky blue eyes. It is a girl dog that will be having babies. He has a dog house for this dog but never bothers to have one for the other dog. After watching and not being able to stand it anymore, I gave up and while they were gone I took the dog water and gave them food. I worried until I just said if I get in trouble for it I will just tell them the truth that I couldn't just let them go like that when I could take them water and food. When they drive home in the evenings the dogs look so eagerly toward them barking and hoping they will come to them but they go inside and most of the time never come out to them. I found when I took water and food to them that the dog was not getting under the shed building at all. It only had a place beside it where it laid and there is no way possible for it to get under the building so it has been in the rain and cold weather all the time. There is a small rock wall around the side and I couldn't see the dog when he was laying there so that made me think he had gotten under the building. I was so upset when I saw he couldn't even get under the building. For the other dog they keep a washtub by her doghouse and evidently only let the rain make the water for it. It is under all these trees and when you can see in it the water is black as coal and he never cleans it and gives her fresh water. So, as usual, I worry and take my water hose and spray as far as I can to put some in the tub which is real hard. Only a little gets to it. We are a little higher up so we can see almost all the tub. There was very little water, if any, in it. I would have taken water to her tub but that dog acts like she might bite me so I was afraid but I have tried to put water in her tub with the water hose over the fence. I know it sounds awful that it looks like I'm just sticking my nose in someone else's business but I've never ever done things like that before. My husband and I have always never bothered anyone in our life and have always been really good neighbors. There is a lot to this situation. Back in the hottest part of the summer when the dog was more of a puppy I had to be gone for a few days and when I came back I saw the puppy had been torn to pieces and I have no idea what happened to him. He had cut places on his body torn so bad the hair was off its back hip and leg his front leg was completely broken into in the middle and the bottom half just hanging. You guys, I have cried over this dog. I saw the dog laying so much with no place to get in the shade and if he did have any water it was in a small food pan in the hot blazing sun. We was so busy here at our house that I didn't realize he was in such a terrible bad shape. When I found him like this then I gave him water in a pan that I pushed under the fence. His owner let him go so much even when he was so hurt. The owner caught me one day putting water under the fence to the dog. I was nice and told him I just noticed he had no water and the owner did not speak back to me. I was nice and told him I had to get back to my work. He still did not respond. Well, now the dogs hair has come back and all his wounds healed but the leg looks, at first glance, ok but if you watch when he walks on it the bottom part of the leg goes out just like a wrist will do and this is half his leg. It is still broken just healed that way and it hurts him especially with the cold weather and rain. He holds it up a lot. We do not live in city limits. We live close to Manchester, KY. Where we live most everyone knows each other. I don't know much about the people with the dogs. The only thing we can do is call the sheriff but if we do the neighbor will know who called even if we didn't give our name. I think we will have to build the dog a house and take to the man or maybe ask if we could buy the dog. I worry over his little leg. I know it must hurt him a lot. Well, we have been worried so with this for the whole year. I find myself not sleeping and going to look outside to see what the temperature is. Last night it got down to 35 degrees. I wonder what temperature is too cold for an outside dog that has no shelter at all. When the babies come we'll have a lot more to deal with. Well, anyway I've talked a lot and I'm glad you have been here to listen to me. I don't know how it will all turn out. I just wish a miracle could happen. We will do all we can though and in the end we may have to just call the sheriff, anyway. It is terrible that a neighbor can cause so much heartfelt pain by their actions. It should not be that way. My heart grieves for the white dog especially. For one he doesn't care if it has any water it seems. At least the other dog has the washtub with a little drop of black water. The white one has none a lot of the time. Two the white dog when it was a puppy almost died from whatever happened to it and now has a really damaged leg that probably should be taken off or something put on it to straighten it. Three he has a shelter for the husky and no place for the white dog. |
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| What kind of sadistic morons are these people? Get these dogs out of there even if you have to steal them when the owners are gone. Take them to a vet or shelter. It's your duty as a kind Samaritan. It's what any decent person would or should do and then prosecute these imbeciles. This is beyond horrible. I look at my two dogs sitting by the woodstove ready to go for their walk and think how lucky they are. They are rescues and these two dogs could be too. My one came from WVA. My dogs drink water many times a day. Steal these dogs and tell no one. Get them help. I know you are a nice person. |
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| OMG, this makes me want to cry, I cannot believe anyone would mistreat animals like that. That man is not a human, he is lower than pond scum. Surely, there must be some laws in your state that animals are entitled to daily food and water, shelter, and that veterinary treatment must be provided if they are injured? Please, do something to help those poor dogs, that piece of **** owner does not even deserve a houseplant, let alone an animal. |
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| Boots, I am not familiar with Kentucky and don't know if any of these places are close to you, but here is a list of animal rescues. I just copied and pasted the entire list, so there are some cat rescues and wildlife rescues included as well, which you can disregard. I am hoping someone will be able to remove those poor dogs from these horrible, horrible people. Rescue Organizations and Sanctuaries in Kentucky Alley Cat Advocates All God’s Creatures Rescue Anderson Humane Society The Animal Care Society Animal Kingdom Animal Refuge Center A Voice for Animals Barktown Rescue Barren River Animal Welfare Association BC's K9 Rescue Blair’s Equine Rescue Bluegrass Basset Rescue Bluegrass Boxer Rescue Bluegrass Shih Tzu Rescue Bluegrass Wildlife Rescue Bluegrass Working Terrier Assoc. Rescue Boone County Animal Care & Control Bowling Green-Warren County Humane Society Boyd County Animal Control Breckinridge County Animal Friends Broadbent Wildlife Sanctuary Buckeye Farm Camel Ranch Rescue Campbell County Animal Shelter Caring Hearts Carroll County Animal Support Casey Creek Horse Rescue & Adoption Central Kentucky Boxer Rescue Central KY Regional Humane Society, Inc & Central Kentucky Wildlife Rehabilitation Christian County Animal Shelter Christian County Humane Society Clinton County Humane Society Creatures Great & Small Clark County Animal Shelter Corgi Rescue & Adoption Dachshund Rescue of North America Danville-Boyle Co. Humane Society Daviess County Animal Shelter Dewey Dam Dog & Cat Protection Society Dreamland Animal Rescue Dumas German Shepherd Rescue East Kentucky Rescue Edmonson County Animal Control Elliott Wildlife Rehab English Springer Rescue America Inc. of Kentucky The Ferret Haven The Fix Foundation Franklin County Humane Society Friends of the Shelter Gallatin Area Greyhound Adoption Golden Retriever Rescue and Adoption of Needy Dogs (Grrand) Grayson County Humane Society Greyhound Pets of America�"Louisville Chapter Hal’s Haven Inc. Hancock County Animal Rescue Happy Hounds Mountainside Rescue Hardin County Animal Control Harlan County Shelter The Haven for Dogs Heart of Kentucky Sheltie Rescue Henderson Animal Shelter Hilltop Haven Animal Rescue/Halfway House Holly’s Place Home At Last Animal Sanctuary Hope for Pets The Humane Association of Northern Kentucky Shelters Humane Society, Animal League for Life of Madison County Humane Society of Calloway County Humane Society of Gallatin County Humane Society of Harrison County Humane Society of Henderson County Humane Society of Marshall County Humane Society of Nelson County Internet Miniature Pinscher Service Jack’s Place Jessamine County S.A.V.E. Center Kenton County Animal Shelter Kentuckiana Pug Rescue Kentucky Boston Terrier Rescue Kentucky Equine Humane Center Kentucky Humane Society Kentucky Humane Society S.N.I.P. Clinic Kentucky Russell Rescue Kickapoo Valley Animal Rescue & Refuge Lake Cumberland Animal Welfare League Lawrence County Humane Society Lexington Humane Society Lifebridge for Animals Life For Pets L.I.F.E. House for Animals Lisa’s Lil Buddies Little Hearts Ferret Rescue Logan County Humane Society Lost But Loved Animal Rescue Louisville Metro Animal Services Louisville Schnauzer Rescue Maine Coon Rescue Marion County Animal Shelter Mayfield/Graves County Animal Shelter McLean County Animal Control Meade County Animal Shelter Menifee County Animal Shelter Mercer Humane Society Montgomery County Humane Society Mountain View Rescue Muhlenberg County Humane Society Murray-Calloway County Animal Shelter National Brittany Rescue and Adoption Network New Beginnings Ohio County Animal Shelter Old Friends Thoroughbred Retirement Oldham County Animal Shelter Our Mims Retirement Haven Owensboro Humane Society P.A.W.S. Animal Shelter Paws, Claws & More Animal Rescue & Transport Pay It Forward Animal Welfare Network Pendleton County Animal Shelter The Pet Castle Pet Connections Pike County Animal Shelter Primate Rescue Center Inc. Pulaski County Animal Shelter Pulaski County Humane Society Rainhill Equine Facility Raptor Rehab of Kentucky Rays of Hope Inc. Real Dog RsQ Inc. ReRun Thoroughbred Adoption Program Roby Animal Sanctuary & Cat Rescue ROSAS�"Rescue Our Shelter Animals & Strays Sadie’s Animal Rescue & Adoption Safe Harboar Shelter STAR, Saving the Animals of Rowan Inc. Scott County Animal Shelter Scott County Humane Society Second Stride Shamrock Foundation Shamrock Greyhound Placement Shelby County Animal Shelter Shelby County Humane Society SOAR Speak Up for Horses Stray Animal Adoption Program Tiny Paws of Kentucky The Trixie Foundation True Heart MinPin Rescue Inc. United Rescues of KY Inc. (UR_KY) U.S. Equine Rescue League Wags and Whiskers Rescue Willow Creek Sanctuary Inc. Witch Trot Farms Wolf Run Wildlife & Educational Facility Woodford Humane Society Woodstock Animal Foundation
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| I'd call the Sheriff. They'll probably give you an animal control number or will send someone out themselves but, from my experience, if the animals appear healthy (meaning not skin & bones or severely injured they'll probably leave a warning with your neighbor and then come back to see if any changes occurred. Don't be surprised if the owners are given a chance to straighten up before animal control takes the animals. Ideally, it would have been nice if animal control could have seen the pup when he was injured. Maybe the broken leg will be enough for AC to take the dogs. Lie......tell the sheriff you're calling in response to the complaints of several neighbors.....but call. Be sure to mention the injured pup and the condition of his leg. IMO, to not do anything is as bad as what the neighbor is doing.
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| Or as the saying goes - if you aren't part of the solution you're part of the problem. I don't think they need a dog house, they need a home. Alert the authorities to get the dogs out of there. They aren't being provided with exercise, stimulation, medical care, food or water. This is cruelty and abuse. Actually with the addition of the pregnant dog this is starting to bear signs of trolls. Hope not. If your story is real, do something! |
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| I was beginning to think the same thing, Cynthia. |
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| annz, cynthia and lily316 What I've been telling you is not a story it is real and it has been killing me for a long time. Its hurts me more when you tell me I'm part of the problem when I've cried and set up nights worried sick but did not know what to do. You don't understand, where we live you don't mess with anyone's things but your own. I have to be very careful because I have a home and family that I have to protect. This person is right beside me. My heart has been so hurt with this that I don't know if I can come back and hear you say its my fault. I understand your hurt because that is what I've been living with only much worse because I have to live beside it and see. Where we live everyone keeps their dogs outside and most chained. I don't like it but that is the way it is. I wish it was not that way. We use to have a dog. We loved her so much. After about 16 years she got sick and died. The vets could not get over how well we took care of her each time we took her for her check up. They always would brag on her. She had regular baths and never without food and good. We did not keep her chained and she was an outside dog but only in the day. We would bring her in the garage in the evening and close the door. If we left for vacation our family came every day to take care of her. We kept a really good very thick bed for her in the garage attached to our home. We would bring her in from time to time. She was our baby. We love animals and take very good care of them. We have a cat that stays in the house with us now. She has never been out. We love her and take the best of care of her. So, we love animals and take them regular to the vet. I'm sorry that you feel that I'm part of the problem. I know you feel for them because I'm just like you. I hope it helps you with your hurt to know when I say we will try to do everything we can for the dogs. There is nothing here to help animals but one animal shelter which in a few days if no one comes to get them they kill them. I know that can be better than living in some cases. I don't think very many people go there to get animals. They were shut down for terrible things they were doing themselves but have now reopened. There is nothing here but the sheriff. It is so different her than other places when it comes to animals. I have family that live in other states and the laws protect their animals as much as people almost. There are so many neighbors all around you but here its not that way I'm the only one beside this owner. If something is done he knows its me. I will come back and let you know. |
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| I apologize. I know that some states in the south have a whole different attitude than the northeast and other parts of the country. I walk my dogs over two miles a day and never in all our different walks see dogs chained outside. There is a whole different mentality up here. Even I am amazed at the dogs going to doggie day care and spas, but the treatment your neighbor is giving his dogs is horrific. Petra gave you some good links. I hope you call one of these groups and get help for these dogs. Again I apologize. There are many trolls who post stuff on the web. |
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| boots, I understand the mentality of the neighbor you're dealing with and why you fear him. That type of person couldn't care less about the condition of his pets and them being without food and water means about as much to him as the water in his toilet. I just hope he doesn't have children in his house. You should contact the rescue groups and see if anyone has additional advise but I'd still try to plant a seed in the guy's mind (what little he has) by saying you miss your dog that died and if he ever needs a new home for his pup that you'll be happy to take it. Keep us posted. |
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| Thank you Petra for the links and your help. |
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| You are very welcome, boots. I really hope you will be able to help those poor dogs, it sounds like a terrible situation for everyone. Please come back and update us when you can. |
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| Here's what you can do: Contact 'Dogs Deserve Better' for your region: You could also become the KY rep for the organization and help others at the same time that you try to help the dogs next door. Change begins with one person. You can worry and do nothing, or you can reach out and try to make things better. Maybe not for these creatures, but for other dogs in Kentucky. You can't change the world, but you can change the world for one dog. Do something. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Link to more information
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- Posted by H8peepingtoms(Chicagotongue@gmail.com) onFri, Mar 25, 11 at 8:28
| (I made some spelling typos and my iPad won't let me scroll down to correct them, sorry in advance ...) Boots r u serious!? You are obviously jealous of your neighbor or else seriously obsessed with them. You contradict yourself many times and it seems obvious to me that you know you are a bad and creepy neighbor who spends each day and even night watching them. Stop being a nasty peeping Tom, nobody is going to side with you if they knew what you were really up to. They have given you a list of humane societies to call, I don't buy your excuse that they won't do anything about it. Maybe the fact that they have to deal with seeing your head invading their privacy every You want to protect your family but who will protect your neighbor from YOU.? The worst thing your neighbor would do is to get cameras to control your peeping. |
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- Posted by nativeflower49 (My Page) on Fri, Mar 25, 11 at 17:02
| NO animal should go without food or shelter, I would go over to your neighbors and talk to them and see if there if there is any reason they cannot get a dog house or shelter for their dog. Its a damn shame to see people don't take consideration of their pets and I recently took in a adult size Pit & Boxer mix dog hes very friendly and he has a home here with our family. He use to be in indoor dog and now he loves to be outside he has a big fenced in yard to run around. Good luck and bless the dogs heart. |
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