• Hey Guest!
    British Car Forum has been supporting enthusiasts for over 25 years by providing a great place to share our love for British cars. You can support our efforts by upgrading your membership for less than the dues of most car clubs. There are some perks with a member upgrade!
    **Upgrade Now**
    (PS: Upgraded members don't see this banner, nor will you see the Google ads that appear on the site.)
Tips
Tips

Why do people think this is OK?

Share this page

D

DavidApp

Yoda
Country flag
Offline
Arrived home after my walk/run this afternoon to find 2 puppies at our mail box. Probable 5 or 6 weeks old just dumped out.

As I was coming down our road which is a dead end a car passed me turned around and stopped briefly. I was too far away to see what they were doing but thought no more about it till I got to our driveway and found the puppies.
Got a place fixed up for them tonight and will look for a No Kill shelter in the morning.
We have a dog and she would not be happy sharing.

David
 
These are people who should not have owned pets in the first place.

Thank you for being considerate and compassionate.
 
OTOH better your mailbox than a dumpster or thrown out of a moving car. I don't find people always have a lot of life skills in this area - ie figuring out they could drop off the puppies themselves, but, at least a mailbox wants the puppies to survive and yours doubly so.
 
Our Boxer, Chance, showed up in the driveway one day several years ago. He had no collar and was emaciated - just skin and ribs! We deduced that someone had dumped him. We tried ads in local paper, posters at Smiths and asking the local vet clinics to try and find the owners (in case he was an escapee) but to no avail. So, we ended up keeping him. He turned out to be a great dog - very friendly but also very protective of us. It was a sad day when we finally had to have him put down due to aggressive cancer at around 13 years of age.

Chance n Devon-0007.jpg
 
Mina was left in a dumpster when she was just a kitten. She was found by my neighbor's daughter. Mina adopted me when she was 7. She was a blessing to me.
Mina.jpg
 
Some years ago we got 2 cats/kittens the same way. Just showed up in our driveway. As they seemed to think that we were their new home and they were male and female they both went off to be fixed.
They were almost always outside cats but the Ginger would sometimes manage to sneak in the house. He was a great cat very friendly and tolerated almost anything. His sister was a different story. She would wind through your legs and when you stroked her she was just as likely to nail you with a clawed paw or teeth. Her temperament changed after her brother died and she became more friendly but never like Ginger.
They lived with us for about 12 and 15 years respectively.

David
 
His Majesty George the Wonder-cat. Faithfully kept all the dinosaurs away from the house, and once brought me a wild turkey he'd "conquered". Best little buddy I ever had (altho' at 20 pounds maybe he shouldn't be described as "little"?).

View attachment 50242

He's buried out in the woods behind the house - and keeping those pesky dinosaurs at bay.

Still no dinosaurs.

Tom M.
 
Think this story ended up OK. The puppies were picked up by a rescue group Sosrescue in Macon. They will have them vetted and have homes for them based on their photos on FB. The other dog in the cage was another one they rescued as well.

David
Puppies.jpg
 
Our cat was also a rescue. We picked him up from a "no kill" shelter 13 years ago. At that time the shelter estimated his age as "5 or 6". He's in pretty darn good shape for an 18+ year old cat. Though we have no reason to think that his health will change much anytime soon, we still talk about how there will never be another cat like "Mr. Dean". He is definitely a beloved member of our family.
 
We just lost our rescue Scally a month ago. We still have Sam, a small Maine Coon, also a rescue. Still missing Scally a lot but Sam is trying to be more attentive. He now comes when called, something he never did before. This morning he jumped up on the bed in the wee hours doing a growl like meow. He was staring at me and dangling from his mouth was a mouse. I jumped out of bed and ran into the bathroom to get a towel. I threw the towel over Sam's head and yelled "drop it". This was followed by his leaping off the bed leaving me and the mouse. I scooped the mouse up in the towel, put on slippers and marched to the front of the yard and released him. I think he might be okay. Yah,yah I know, he'll probably be back tomorrow. Rescues are awesome.
 
Back
Top