Puppy
 

we found a little puppy in our fenced backyard today.

We thought that perhaps he was lost and had crawled through a gap in the gate of the fence.

That is, until we talked to the neighbor a few houses down and he too found a puppy in his fenced backyard today that looks exactly the same.

Don't you just love people? Must be liberals, dumping their problems onto other people.

There just happens to be the risk that our German Shepherd will kill him. But who cares about that, right?

How soon, til the Great Leader has driven the economy down even further, that we find babies in our backyards? Or teenagers?

what kind of puppy?

oh, yeah, and I"m sure liberals are the source of our dog surplus.

urban poor are one of the big sources yes.

Try driving through a ghetto without almost hitting a stray dog.

What kind of despicable person doesn't man up to their own responsibility and take care of the animals they bring into this world?

Should I go dump the dog in someone else's yard?

The sad thing is that the person who did this is probably a parent. God help those kids.

Believe it or not, I do end up in urban poor neighborhoods sometimes, I am have not ever noted the stray dog problem. I concede the dog population may be more out of control on poorer areas, given the costs to spay/neuter. And perhaps there's a stronger desire to have dogs for security reasons. I don't know--I haven't thought about it much.

Do they euthanize dogs frequently at shelters in your area? Here, I think anyone could take a dog to the county shelter, and it would likely be adopted and would be kept indefinitely anyway. Maybe they didn't realize that, if that's true where you live.

I also am starting to realize that your defnintion of "liberal" seems to mean something different than it means to me. Having said that, I doubt very many people in the population you are talking about identify themselves as liberal anyway. But I guess you provoked a response, which was part of the point.

I just wanted to know about the puppy. Last week, I was #5 to fill out an application to adopt at the closest shelter. Someone else got the dog.

Many thousands of dogs are killed in shelters in my area.

Maybe this dog would have more of a chance since it is a puppy.

But for an adult dog, it is basically game-over. Within a few days, it is off to the trash heap.

There are rescue groups and no-kill organizations as well. Rescue groups don't typically deal with mutts, and no-kill groups have limited resources.

Just one Dallas shelter earlier in 2008 kills animals at the rate of 80 to 100 per day.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcont...1.45f579f.html

Reports of more animals finding way to shelter, along with decreased adoptions and decreased donations.

Lady at the state park where we are at says people dump dogs and cats at the state park all the time.

If you were Ted Kennedy, you could dump a dog in the Obamas' back yard (so to speak), and you'd make the papers.

Wouldn't surprise me to see a Drudge headline that one of Obama's half-brothers is the guy who dumped the dog in my backyard.

So Mike wishes to make a political statement or tell us about the puppy? Is this your second dog? How many more do you intend to accumulate?

We are not keeping the puppy. We are trying to find a home for him where he will be safe and happy.