Why do people think farmers want all them dropped off cats and dogs??

[Thumbbuddy]

Do the people that drop off all them cats and sometimes dogs on farmers property think the farmers needs them and has the money and time to feed the strays that are sometimes no good for anything except trouble? Sometimes the dog warden comes by and if you don't have a license for the dogs you get fined, try and tell him it is not your dog, someone dropped him off, it's a stray. maybe it will work one time only. I hate to sss.

[RedneckPete]

The ones my dogs don't kill I trap and let them go in the city.

Pete

[tinknal]

It's the whole "Green Acres" "Charlottes Web" "Old MacDonald" thing that citiots think about life on the farm.

[hippiehill]

Anyone want a cat? Or five or six or seven? I didn't bring them to my house, and the pound and the SPCA are not accepting any! Good thing I like cats, but enough is enough - the goat milk is for ME, not them!

[Sammy]

'Cause they think the farmer needs them to keep the mice away ! ;o]

[donsgal]

A lot of people are really inconsiderate idiots.

Instead of doing what is RIGHT with unwanted animals. (Trying to find homes for them, or taking them to the shelter). It is easier to just be rid of them the easy way. These people have no conscience and don't care that these animals often suffer for many weeks or months before dying if they cannot find food and shelter.

It is kind when someone feeds a stray animal but I understand that sometimes they cannot financially or are unable to for other reasons, or simply do not want stray animals around their house. (Once in a while a stray animal will turn up at my house, and I want to feed them, but I know that I must not because I cannot have another animal around the house.

I applaud people who take in strays and know there is a special place in heaven for them. But people who dump off the dogs/catsto begin with are just wrong.

There isn't much anyone can do, unfortunately, to stop it.

donsgal

[faithgoeson]

My parents have out a sign that reads...."Dumping animals on our property could result in meeting your maker much sooner than expected." For some reason, they've not had an animal dumped in a couple of years now...

[fantasymaker]

Because they dont have the guts to take care of thier own problem.



By ignoreing what they are doing they can delude themselves into thinking that they will "make a new life" on thier own when what they are really doing is condeming them to a horrible death .

[SouthBoundGal]

I own two dogs that were dropped on my property.
Around here I believe part of the problem is the lack of facilities or options for unwanted pets. The only shelter here is a private one that charges $25 to accept a personal pet and can refuse animals if the shelter is filled to capacity, or you can call animal control (which takes the pets to the same shelter). If you call animal control, they may take three days to get to you, the catch is that if you keep (feed) an animal for three days it is considered yours. They have a horrible adoption/kill rate and everyone knows it. They are inadvertantly encouraging people to drop off these unwanted animals somewhere else, like my property.
Several years ago, A stray hound had pups in my barn. When I called the shelter, they said "oh, can you please try to find homes for them, hounds stand almost no chance here". After almost three months and no success, 6 pups were running wild, eating everything, and had mange. When I called them back, they said that it would cost me $25 a piece for them to accept them because they were considered MY pets. I reminded them that they told me to keep them. It was only after I suggested that I would take matters into my own hands to protect my kids from the mangey dogs, that they agreed to accept them at no charge.
I wish people would consider the life span of an animal before they get one. If they don't think they will want a pet for 10 - 15 years, then a dog (or a cat)is not the right pet for them. And just because I have a little bit of land doesn't mean I want forty eleven dogs dropped here.

[MelissaW]

I feel your pain! We've had legions of cats show up here, many of them sick or injured. After our last old cat died (another dumped animal who lived with us for many years), they quit showing up because there was no food on the porch anymore. We don't see too many dogs dumped, but that probably has something to do with our own dogs raising a stinck anytime a "stranger" comes near. Poor critters. Imagine finding yourself in a cornfield in the middle of a cold night, when all you've ever known is a warm indoor home with food in a dish.

[Ninn]

Trailer parks seem to have the same problem. Somebody took their german shephard walking in the woods. She got her leg caught in a trap and when they got her loose, they dropped her off here, still bleeding. A neighbor of ours took her in and spent ridiculous amounts of money to get her medical care. They also now have about 15 cats down there because people just dump them off in the park at night. I am going to have a wonderful time planting a garden here this year, as they all think that anyplace with enough dirt must be a litter box. Our animal shelter charges 50 dollars to rent a kind-capture trap and then 15 dollars for every cat they pick up out here. Used to be they didnt charge, but the problem got to be so out of hand that now they have to.

[uncle Will in In.]

They dump on farmers because they think they can dump them without being seen. Don't want any one watching when you kick them out.

[kesoaps]

My grandfather used to take in every stray cat that wandered onto his farm; at one point he had 27!!! He named about half dozen of them and fed the entire lot...and of course way back then no one spayed or nuetered, so there were always replacement kitties.

We've got three shelters here in our county, and they never turn you down if you bring in a stray (providing you're in that shelter's district.) However, I've brought in a mamma cat with kittens and they wanted to charge me for them, since they said the kittens were born at my house and I was responsible for them. I said the alternative was just to kill them...and they took them (with horrified looks in their eyes!) Of course, I wouldn't have killed the kitties, I couldn't do that, but I sure can bluff!

[farminghandyman]

HUM may be they are good eating, LOL


I take nearly all the cats I can find, to help keep the mice down, I like to keep 10 to 20 around, the coyotes have been hard on the cats the last few years,

NO DOG THO. (don't like the taste of dog), LOL, dogs are hard on the chickens. So no Dogs,

[tamsam]

We are lucky here as we haven't had but 1 dog in 3 years show up and it had part of a chain on as if it had gotten loose. Well it went on its way and we never saw it again. 1 reason we may not have that problem is they make good cyote food. We see more of them than dogs and when we see one they make for good target pratice. Last one seen here at the house was trying to get in th goat pen nd the old 44 mag took care of him. Just leave them laying in the edge of the woods and others will not come around. Good luck with your strays. Sam

[NCGirl]

A few years back I saw a car pull over beside my house and set a box out beside the road. I just thought "what a jerk, throwing your trash out in my yard" but of course when I walked out there to put it in the trash can it was not trash but a box full of 3-4 week old puppies.

[Mary in MO]

Every one of my pets is a rescue. My oldest cat, Max, was found in the car wash as a kitten. He had his eye poked out. I took him home knowing the shelter would put him down. Next, a stray cat shows up on our property, took her to the vet for shots/spaying. Vet said he'd spay on next visit since she was malnourished. I said, I think she's preggers. He said no. She was. Three kittens later. The third was a runt who died. The two we kept. Mom was feral so she went to a woman who was feral in her own right. Next came the dog, River. A client (mentally ill) was going to dump him in the alley. Add dog to 3 ring cat circus. Well, it's some years down the road. The second cat died of kidney failure a few years ago. His brother is dying as I write this. If he doesn't go tonight he's getting put down tomorrow. Kidney failure. Max, the oldest, has diabetes and is slowly going. I kept him alive with insulin until it was impossible to control the blood sugars w/o danger of making him hypo. River the dog is the youngest addition. Guess when they all go we'll have their reincarnated spirits show up on the doorstep again. .... and I thought we could get some nice living room furniture.

I agree that dumping is a huge problem. I spoke with our neighbors down the road who have a good bit of land and they have a boat load of dogs they have rescued as well. People just don't think when they dump these poor animals. There are few like us who take them in and try to give them a good life and SPAY AND NUETER them. We'd make a lot of progress in this country if we'd provide free spaying and nuetering for pets. my 2cents.

Mary

[Yeti]

we have loads of animals dumped off the highway here. my exit ramp doesn't have lights or businesses that would catch someone doing that. the guys closest to the exit get the most. one year they must have gotten 50 cats. it seemed like they were everywhere. when I bought my place the neighbor said I had hundreds of bunnys on my land, one day I saw a cat backing out of a ground hog hole...I know what killed off the bunnys. I have had many stray dogs as well over the years. I had one that was making the rounds and I would see it a couple times a week. the last thing I needed was my kids getting bit by some dog that wandered in the yard so I had to fence the whole 8 acres to keep stuff out.

[james dilley]

Therea A old custom around here when it comes to pets, They are disposable, So just dump them out near the orchards and leave. And then the new trend disposable people. Its starting to happen. But with the pets ,They are TARGET practice around theese parts. Not that I shoot them But I know folks who do.

[KCM]

Originally Posted by RedneckPete

The ones my dogs don't kill I trap and let them go in the city.

Pete

I cannot remember when I have heard of anything so incredibly immature, insensitive, and inhumane.
Your behavior is cruel and is worse than the person who dropped the dog in the first place because you should know better.