Why do people who live in town always dump their animals on people who live outside of town?

They think that some kind (read stupid) hick farmer will take pity on the dog and adopt it so that the dog can live the rest of it`s life in the fresh country air. Here is how it works out in the `real world`.

BANG! .................. That`s the last sound 98% of these dogs hear. We don`t have access to animal shelters or animal control officers and the Police do not pick up stray dogs. They will offer to shoot them for us but they have more pressing duties so the job usually falls to us. It is truly amazing how quickly ```Rex```or ```Fluffy``` adapts to killing livestock to survive. As soon as they enter private property they are doomed. I live in a small country village and I know that if my dog runs that he WILL NOT be coming back. And we do not abandon our dogs as someone else suggested. That would be putting our neighbours and our own livestock at risk and we dumb hicks are more responsible than that.

They have the notion in their heads that the dog will be disoriented and not find its way back home. Which is sad, sick, and disgusting. Fortunately...most people in my town know that I won't turn an animal down. So I've had 2 kittens and a dog dropped off here so far. I don't agree with it as I'm not equipped enough to handle more than a few animals. But I know what to do and have a dog myself. I still have one of the kittens...but I took the dog to the humane society and surrendered her. They didn't ask any questions suspecting me. I just explained the situation. Funny thing...I would have kept the dog...but it wanted to eat my cat!

I think people in general think they are doing the animal a favor. They don't want to take to the shelter not because they are skipping out on paying but they have this delusion that they animal will live a long happy life in the country with a kids and family on land being a family dog. Or that we need cats becasue of mice in the barn! haha! All my cats moved in and my dogs did too. I guess the people who dumped animals on my street, steaked out my place first! LOL!

Because they can. They lack courage to take responsibility. They dump them thinking that you will do what they refuse to do.

Our off leash dogs one wintery December found a tiny black Lab puppy in a 55 gal drum in one of the City Parks. No one would have found the puppy if it hadn't been for the no-leash laws.

The puppy was scared to death, freezing cold. It had been 30 degrees overnight. It was snarling and snapping.

Can you imagine how afraid and miserable a baby would have to be to act like that? The Police refused to touch it. We tilted the drum into the squad car's back seat. The puppy walked out, eventually warmed up and turned into a real sweetie.

I think the Police may have learned a thing or two about desperation.

Irresponsibility. We live way out in the country and people always drop dogs and cats out here. Cats can survive pretty well on their own. We have feral cats that come around, put feed out for them. The dogs usually end up at our house. We rescue all that we see or someone tells us about, then vet them and find them good homes.

This has happened to be 28 times.. I am only 13 and in 13 years 28 times!

Its unbelieveable... I have had 9 puppy's and 19 cats dropped of out here... I just had to keep all of them though.. I mean I can't give anything away that people didn't want the first time and now no ones gonna want them a second time!? I mean thats harsh...

They like to think they are setting them free.

My grandparents owned a small farm outside a large metro area & had the same problem & this was over 20yr ago. They & a neighbor would try to find homes for them, the ones that they could pick up. Then of course there ended having a pack of wild dogs running loose thru the woods & acreage killing chickens & causing trouble sometimes.

Get them to spay their cat so they quit overpopulating the world with feral cats, around here you get caught dumping a domestic animal like a cat of dog you get a $50 fine per animal. He should at least man up enough to take them to the local farms, farmers tend to love barn cats as a way to keep mice and rats out of their barns.

Yeah because people in the country never abandon their dogs.

It doesn't matter where they live there are irresponsible owners everywhere. they are also cheap because if you take your dog to the pound you have to pay.

That would be stereotyping. Everyone does not do that. Its just the people who got the dog as a puppy and it got too big, or it developed behavioural issues and they no longer wanted it...