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I fell so bad for the dog next door.(VENT)
I am so sad for the dog next door. It is thundering and lightning out and she is outside going crazy. The girl who lives there is at school. I've tried to bring her over here in the past but she does not like it when I go up to her. Yesterday she was out in the pouring rain all day too. It isn't right. The girl thinks because she leaves the shed open that the dog is fine but hasn't trained the dog at all to actually go in the shed. I've offered to help her kennel train, I've offered her our old kennel but she declined both. Technically since the dog has a shelter there isn't anything animal control can do. I hate it! Why have a dog?
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Re: I fell so bad for the dog next door.(VENT)
I know, right? Just put some d@mn food in there and hang out with her for a while and she'll get it and go in. I'm going to have to go over and AGAIN say something to her. I don't know what she thinks happens while she is gone.
I'm taking over your post because I have advice to ask....
We have new neighbors. They have a larger dog (lab mix I think) that they leave out all night long if it's not raining. I can't see one corner of their back yard, so I'm not sure if they have shelter for the dog or not.
Thing is, this dog barks every.single.time a car drives by. Alot. For quite some time after the car has left.
And I'm a big sissy....I so don't want to go over and say something to them. I can just see it, "hi, I'm your neighbor. We haven't met but your dog is driving me insane."
WWYD?
Heather- we actually had the same problem with her as well. She didn't realize when she left (she'd go out at night with her BF) the dog barked because it was having major anxiety. I mean the dog barked the entire time. We are really good friends with the neighbors next door. I saw her one day and said something and I believe the neighbors spoke up as well. She was always home by 11 so we kind of let it slide. The dog got out one night around Christmas and Shane and I tried to catch her but she tried to bite Shane. It was like a two hour ordeal. I finally wrote her a note and tried to lock the gate as best as possible. The dog got out again (unbeknownst to us). When she came home she was so upset the dog was gone and that is when I had a huge talk with her about kenneling the dog. I thought I got through to her but recently the dog has been out during the day again.
If it is after 10 you can call Animal Control and lodge a complaint here in Edmonds. I believe you can also call if there is no shelter and water left for the dog. Google animal control in your city and see what code is and well you have two options:
1) call them on it.
2) call animal control
When the dog got out, I did something smart. I asked her for her number in case it happened again. Now, I know this sounds passive aggressive, I text her. She's young so I figured it would get through to her. Last time I texted her she was home in a half hour or so and let the dog in.
Oh I would totally do that. Actually, I'd probably start with "Hi I'm your neighbor. I've noticed your cute pup seems to spend a lot of time outside. Maybe that's just temporary- I sure hope so, you know what pack animals dogs are and how much they love being with their family!
- so in that case not a big deal, but he/she seems to be pretty upset at the cars driving by. I just wanted to make sure you knew."
Kinda passive aggressive, and hopefully they'll be smart and bring the dog in, but if not I'd get bitchy. I'm not interested in being friendly with people who treat their dogs like garbage. Just my $0.02.
I love you dearly, but I hope you aren't recommending that. Imagine if someone decided that you weren't treating one of your animals "good enough" according to their standards and stole it?
We have a cat that loves to be outside. I know some people think that is really irresponsible, and I've even lost a cat that way. However, we weighed quality of life for her vs. impact on life span, and we've decided to allow it. It would be awful for her and us if some "holier-than-thou" person decided to steal her away from her family. In my mind, it would be akin to someone taking away Isaac because we decided to CIO (not that we do that).
OP - this is in no way directed at you... I feel for the pup. We had a neighbor like that and worked with our other neighbors to make sure not a day went by without us calling animal control over barking, neglect, etc. However, except in cases of blatant abuse/neglect, I advocate going through legal channels.
I'm going to make an AWESOME big brother.
Love ya too, but I stand by my statement. There are times (not necessarily saying this is one of them, I'd have to know more about the situation...I apologize for wording it wrong to suggest that is what OP should legit do, I am all about getting people to own up to their responsibilities and hope the pet owner does so in this case whether through personal or legal intervention- always a better choice) when an animal's treatment is so cruel that I could not sit by and see it continue. I'm talking outside all the time, chained, dirty water, scattered and irregular feedings, improper vet care, breeding, etc. for me *personally* to warrant it. Others may feel differently. But you can bet your boots that if I had a neighbor doing those things I listed above, I'd try to find a way for that pet to disappear, and I'm not the only person that feels this way. (Pets board has an UR that's been used many times.) And we'll have to agree to disagree on indoor v outdoor or indoor/outdoor cats. But the difference with CIO is that it's not life-threatening or permanent. An abused and neglected animal is often again a life and death situation and as you all know, pets are my "thing." I believe in mercy and compassion to pets (not to say anyone here doesn't, of course!) but for me that means sometimes there is a lesser of two evils and in that case yes, I would try to help a pet escape a life of misery; that is no life at all.
But absolutely legal or personal interventions to help the pet owner be more caring and responsible is the far and away preferred choice. Sorry again...having a cranky day and stuff like this just really gets my blood boiling. I look at my dog who in reality is dying of lymphoma, and I think of my dog sister who just passed on, and my eyes and heart cry for this dog. Pet topics are really getting to me lately.
<bows out of post>
Agree with you there...
And there...
I know that pets are your thing, but that doesn't mean that less vocal people love our pets any less. And now, I must go stop Tiger from the life-threatening action of pouncing on a grasshopper... (j/k, she's curled up on the bed right now. Besides, Isaac is WAY more life-threatening to her at the moment).
I'm going to make an AWESOME big brother.