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

No Thumbbuddy, they do not think!

Animal dumping is cruel. Its someone probably to lazy to spay/neuter or put effort into good training. Seems some can come up with more excuses as to why they can't. People often find a way to do something if they want to bad enough. Disposable society imo

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There is an excellent business opportunity here.

One could take all the cats and dogs that were dumped and do business this way. Seperate the dogs and cats into pens. Slaughter the cats on a regular basis and feed the cat meat to the dogs. The cat pelts could be sold to the fancy glove industry in China, and the rest of the unused portions of guts and so on could ge put into a worm bed to feed worms. The bones could be ground int bone meal for chicken feed.

Then the dogs could be butchered and the meat fed to the chickens, along with some cat bone meal. The dog hides could also be sold to the glove industry in China. The bones and guts could be used the same way as the cat products.

Then the chickens fed on this real high protien diet would lay lots of eggs. You could sell lots of eggs. One could also sell lots of chickens too.

Using stray dogs and cats for feed would be a good thing because they are real cheap. There is a good opportunity for a profit here.

The cat or dog that wanders by here will soon be NPK and enzymes in the garden.

I had rather not eat animal carcasses but I don't mind getting rid of them.

First off I do NOT condone dumping pets in the country, And I take offence to the Term To LAZY to spay nuter, I refuse to have my pets done. Thats my choice. And I live by it. And I CAN afford to feed my pets. And Theres A very high demand for The Kittens my cats have. I have A waiting list. For them. So Its NOT being LAZY. I think some folks need to rethink their choice of words. And I know the dumping of pets is rampant. I would rather Shoot them and use them for Fertilizer.

What do you propose I do with them instead? Bring them to the animal shelter and pay twenty bucks a pop to drop them off? Perhaps I should just kill the cats, or else keep them all and turn into a crazy cat lady (or man). Perhaps I could bring them to the city, (where they came from) and give them a crack at life. True they may not make it, but I'd rather be dropped in the middle of nowhere then unceremoniously shot in the back of the head.

Maybe they are hoping the farmer will shoot them?

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farminghandyman - lol! I had a woman pestering me to take kittens (see, since I have a barn I need kittens )

I finally told her I'd take her kittens if she took my extra EE roo (friendly, bony 2 y.o.). She said "you can eat a rooster." And I said "You can eat kittens." She doesn't try to give me kittens anymore. come to think of it, she doesn't talk to me anymore.....

Here in Hancock Co. Tn. we do NOT have a shelter.Have talked to cops once to tell them we had animals set out.They told us if we had a gun that would work. We live next to three countys and none will except any of our animals.Shooting isn,t cruel, if they are starving,hurt and unwanted.

I used to get boxes of puppies and kittens dropped off. Someone even left 2 horses tied to tractor tires in my driveway. I put a sign up that says if you dump an animal here it will be sent to the pound. I have not had extra animals left in 2 years now.
I think people look at it as it is a farm rural property, and their animals will get to live on a farm.

THINK?? you Really think they THINK?? nope--out of sight, out of mind--its your problem now, not mine--if they think at all! i, personally feel they're all mindless idiots, or they would spay and neuter, stop the problem.

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I never even suggested that shooting starving, hurt, or unwanted animals was cruel. What post did you read?

I'm with you KCM. Just last week I saved a puppy that was in the middle of the highway at a very busy intesection in town. That puppy did not have a chance at survival, but did have a very good chance of being hit and injured, left to suffer until it died a painful death.

I STRONGLY support spay/neuter and, as much as I love animals, I believe it is more humane to end an unwanted animal's life than to let it starve and suffer.

We've only been on our farm almost three years and have taken in 13 dogs so far. Any stray dog or cat that comes to our place is taken in and given the best of care. I am very grateful that we are in a position to afford to do this.

It disgusts me that people are so uncaring that they would dump a defenseless animal out on the side of the road. There is NO excuse for it.

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If you think you get a lot of animals dropped off at a farm, try having an animal hospital. Just about once a week you come in to a load of puppies or kittens running around the outside,or sick and lame pets that people will not take care of. It was real bad till I put in camera to get car tag numbers and took a few to court. Animal control fine is $125 plus court cost. And I don't have a problem roasting there but in the court either

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Mickey
Small town redneck in NC

I've never re-relocated a dog into the city, animal control will pick them up. Cats they won't, and they charge to drop them off. I live next door to a city of almost half a million people, and can't ever remember seeing a cat cowering on the middle of a highway intersection.

Big difference between cats and dogs folks. Dogs need humans to survive, cats put up with them. Strangers of any uneatable mammal flavour are unwelcome on the homestead.

Pete

Sorry Pete, but I have seen cats run over on city streets. I agree that cats are better able to survive on their own, but that doesn't mean they are healthy and uninjured.

mj1angier - I know what you mean. Several of the cats and dogs we have rescued were dumped out at our vet's office.

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Next time that happens, PM me. I'm in ON too and if we are close, I'll help you find the dogs a home. I'm serious.

Lisa.

Ravenlost, Do you not have any rules of how many dogs and or cats you can own? We are only allowed 3 dogs and I believe 4 cats. And there is a rule on the books now about roaming cats....you get fined if your is wandering (well if you're caught) I sooo want to move as this township is getting way too restrictive on ALL matters! I wanted to do rescue but I cannot due to the new laws.
melissa

Rules? LOL...I live in rural Mississippi. There are no rules on how many dogs and cats we can own. Having just lost our precious Tippy yesterday we are down to nine dogs and six cats. We have plenty of room in our hearts for more, but I wish people would just spay/neuter so there wouldn't be so many strays in this world.

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We get a lot of this. People don't just drop them off near our farm but a mile or two up the road too so I don't think it is the romanticism of "oh, they've got a farm and animals and will welcome more and it will be a good home for Fido/Fluffy/Hopper". Given that I think people are just being expedient and dumping the animals where they think they, the humans, won't get caught doing it.

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