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Pet Dumping Rampant in Rural Areas

The mutts pictured here were dumped. So many are dumped that attention needs to be paid to it. Remember that the best way to help is to have your pets spayed or neutered keeping the unwanted pet population down.

We are thirty minutes away and a county away from any animal shelter making dumped pets a problem. It seems that most of the dumped animals are pregnant and too tame to survive well. It begs the question, what happens to so many of these pets that are dumped in the rural areas?

We had not even fully moved into our new place in rural Putnam when a mama-dog about the age of our mutt, Skipper, showed up and stayed. There was a terrible thunderstorm one evening flooding the area where Skipper was and he invited her in with the seven puppies. These are a couple of those dogs that were dumped.

The mama never trusted humans. But, she knew she was in trouble and Skipper offered her protection. Two of the puppies had drowned in the next storm. She didn’t trust us, so she began moving the puppies straight into a new hiding place which turned out to be a low spot where the puppies would have drown if my mother-in-law and brother-in-law had not intervened. They moved her remaining puppies into the garage and mama-dog finally decided to join them and feed them.

The dumped dogs have been pets with someone. When they are dumped, they are taught not to trust humans because they have been left by people. This makes it hard to get them to catch and send them to shelters. They are hungry, so they resort to stealing from the pets that are around the area or from ranchers’ feed or harassing the cattle. That cannot be tolerated and most are put down because of this.

Most of the puppies that are born are ravaged by wild animals or are caught in adverse weather conditions and drown or freeze to death. The mamas have no fighting skills against the wild animals and the puppies or kittens are easy targets.

The mama’s don’t always realize what is dangerous to try and feed the puppies. The mama-dog of our puppies dragged a carcass up for the puppies more than once. Most of the times we found it and disposed of the carcass before they got too much. One time we were not fast enough. The carcass had been poisoned and two of the puppies became extremely ill. One did not make it. Right after that the mama-dog disappeared. I figured that she ate too much of her own catch. We have taken measures to keep them home and away from other animals.

Three of the puppies have survived that we found last summer. They have had problems, but seem to be doing well now. They are a joy to have around and we would not trade them for anything now.

No, we don’t need or want any more. Have your pets spayed or neutered when you get them. If it's too late for that, take them to the nearest animal shelter if you can’t handle having them any longer.

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