Some. People.
Monday, July 30th, 2012 10:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
threemeninaboatThe neighbors back and across from us moved away on Saturday and LEFT THE DOG.
She been out there doing this mournful howl since. I'd rescue her myself but I want them to get a ticket. Animal control is on the way.
She been out there doing this mournful howl since. I'd rescue her myself but I want them to get a ticket. Animal control is on the way.
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Date: 2012-07-30 06:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-31 02:14 am (UTC)True story: in college, a bunch of us went to look at an apartment (upper half of a duplex). The family had a really super adorable kitten that we squeed over, and also had a "den" set up on their back porch for a stray they were feeding.
Two weeks later, we were moving into the apartment in the middle of an icy March rain. Next door is a squalling kitten on top of a little garden shed, getting slowly soaked. We realized it was the same kitten we saw on our visit and snatched her up, dried her off, put her in the bathroom away from my cat until we could get her to a vet... whereupon we found out she had contracted FLV, almost certainly from one of the many neighborhood strays, since she apparently hadn't been fixed or vaccinated.
We had her for a year, until she died a truly heartbreaking death from the leukemia that took her from a perfectly healthy young cat to death's door in under a week.
But that's not the best part. When we found the kitten? We also spotted the stray cat's "den" wadded up in the trash. We found him huddled under a bush in the yard. We couldn't integrate a third cat into the household so we took him to the shelter where at least if he were euthanized, he wouldn't starve or freeze.
That's not the best part either. The family that moved? We learned from the landlord (when we asked him to contact them to find out if the kitten had escaped during their move and was "lost") that they bought their own place. So they didn't dump the cats because they were prevented from bringing them along. They were just cretinous assholes. May they rot in hell.
People are horrible
Date: 2012-07-31 03:32 am (UTC)When we moved in here the previous owners left 3 cats. Our neighbor said he would take care* of them.
*I'm pretty sure he drowned them.
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Date: 2012-07-31 07:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-01 01:13 pm (UTC)Seconded.
Now I'm sitting at my desk, very angry. I work for the court system and am always infuriated and greatly saddened when I read not only about animal abuse/cruelty cases, but also what people are capable of doing to their own children in terms of abuse and neglect. If you don't have it in you to respect or protect another life, no matter how small, maybe you should not be a pet owner or a parent.