snagged in outlet 3 Posted February 4, 2020 Posted February 4, 2020 45 minutes ago, N9BOW said: They headed back towards Mtn Home. I live way out in the country....Iowa. unfortunately. So this is your Mountain Home place and you are back in Iowa. Gotcha. My wife's family farm is in far eastern IL and they get dumped on all the time. N9BOW 1
Terrierman Posted February 4, 2020 Posted February 4, 2020 It happens to us here too. Litter of kittens right in my driveway. We raised them up until shelter could take them. Last dog that showed up here put me back in my truck. That show didn't last very long. We've taken others to the shelter or got lucky and a deputy did the transport. It's a real heartless thing to do, but I try real hard not to judge. Never know what someone else might be going through.
snagged in outlet 3 Posted February 4, 2020 Posted February 4, 2020 40 minutes ago, Terrierman said: It's a real heartless thing to do, but I try real hard not to judge. Never know what someone else might be going through. People were dumping horses too. They can get expensive quick.
MOPanfisher Posted February 4, 2020 Posted February 4, 2020 Being out on a gravel road I have gotten a lot of dogs and cats dumped over the years. Cats aren't a problem, they either adapt or vanish, or get vanished. Dogs, I have a soft spot for dogs, but if they go after chickens, cats, horses, cows, other dogs or people they seldom make it to the second day. Not proud of that it's just a fact. Fortunately I don't have the chickens or cows any more but a stray dog growlsat me one time and it's light out immediately. Good lord I hope nobody ever dumps a horse here, that's basically how I got the 2 I have, although I agreed to it I guess. Had a nice herd of charlais mix cattle show up once, bull and I think 14 cows, would have happily kept them but the owner seemed to want them back, the second time it happened he took to a different farm with fences. Once in a while I am in need of a new yard dog and one of the strays will adopt us, if it works out it gets to stay, if not, well it doesnt. N9BOW 1
N9BOW Posted February 4, 2020 Author Posted February 4, 2020 2 hours ago, Seth said: Maybe they will do the world a favor and crash in to a light pole on their way to wherever they are going...... I dont want physical harm to come to anyone for this....I do have a soft spot for pets...SO................ ahhhh nevermind. Im not gonna say it... Well how about smacking into the back of a manure spreader and filling the cab with pig shat! Seth and Terrierman 2
MOPanfisher Posted February 4, 2020 Posted February 4, 2020 29 minutes ago, N9BOW said: I dont want physical harm to come to anyone for this....I do have a soft spot for pets...SO................ ahhhh nevermind. Im not gonna say it... Well how about smacking into the back of a manure spreader and filling the cab with pig shat! Better yet getting home and finding that 7 stray cats and 2 skunks have given birth under their house where they can't get to them. Seth and N9BOW 1 1
Terrierman Posted February 4, 2020 Posted February 4, 2020 14 minutes ago, MOPanfisher said: Better yet getting home and finding that 7 stray cats and 2 skunks have given birth under their house where they can't get to them. Back when I was a kid, the duty fell to me to crawl under the back porch and remove the dead cat that was stinking up the whole block. That could happen to them too. MOPanfisher 1
jdmidwest Posted February 5, 2020 Posted February 5, 2020 Bob Barker used to say it well, spay and neuter your pets. If you are going to own them, don't make more of them than you can take care of. It was always a problem when I grew up in the country. And the ones that seemed to get dumped were always found in the chickens or chasing other livestock. Y'all know what the sentence was for that. Quillback and N9BOW 2 "Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously." — Hunter S. Thompson
N9BOW Posted February 5, 2020 Author Posted February 5, 2020 57 minutes ago, jdmidwest said: Bob Barker used to say it well, spay and neuter your pets. If you are going to own them, don't make more of them than you can take care of. It was always a problem when I grew up in the country. And the ones that seemed to get dumped were always found in the chickens or chasing other livestock. Y'all know what the sentence was for that. Yup Don't mess with the livestock! but at the end of the day the abandoned ones revert to instinct for survival. My Uncle Pete would always get strays but never spayed on his dairy farm (could not afford it). After milking he would take the milk can and holler puss puss puss..... and out of every nook and cranny 50+ cats swarm the big pan and stick their heads right under the milk as he was pouring it. Never had a problem with rats or mice in the grain silos
MOPanfisher Posted February 5, 2020 Posted February 5, 2020 We just caught and released black snakes into the hay barn to control mice. I used think coyotes must be the meanest creatures on earth, whenever we had a stray that was not destined to stay, and just didn't take the hints, dad would take a shot gun and the dog and go coyote hunting. Dogs never came back from coyote hunts. Was years before I figured out what was happening.
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