Covid: Dogs bought in lockdown being abandoned

[Cath]

How could anyone do this poor dogs

Covid: Dogs bought in lockdown being abandoned

A charity says animals that cannot be sold are disguised as strays so rescue centres take them.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Jacqui-S]

 

[kateincornwall]

Heart breaking

 

[SteffiS]

Hopefully they will find homes where they are truly loved and looked after.

 

[Cath]

I do hope so. I found that white rabbit (Alice) that someone had dumped not long ago. Some people have no heart.

 

[Atemas]

This makes me really angry and upset

 

[edzbird]

Callous behaviour.

 

[snowbunny]

I was at a shelter today that has over five hundred dogs. While I was there, I saw about eight dogs being brought in by different people - I don't know how many arrived while I was in other areas of the shelter. One of the people I was with said that one day he was there, he saw sixty-one dogs being brought in. In a single day.

It's a rather different thing to the covid puppy problem, but it was an eye-opener, I can tell you.

 

[Sophiedoodle]

It's a rather different thing to the covid puppy problem, but it was an eye-opener, I can tell you.

What is the problem there that’s causing so many dogs to be surrendered? If it’s not the covid puppy problem?

 

[snowbunny]

What is the problem there that’s causing so many dogs to be surrendered? If it’s not the covid puppy problem?

This is in the south of Spain. They're hunting dogs that are no longer wanted. The shelter I'm visiting takes them free of charge, with a smile and thanks, because otherwise they would be killed. It's hard to wrap your head around, and some of the things would break the hardest of hearts, but the only way to get through it is to focus on the great work the shelter is doing and how much time, money, and care they pump into these dogs from the day they arrive.

 

[Emily_Babbelhund]

This is in the south of Spain.

It's horrible down there. The 'better' hunters take them to the shelter at the end of the hunting season, but then when the hunting season starts up again (and the shelters have kept the dogs fed and healthy for months) they often have break-ins where the dogs are stolen to be used again. The shelters I volunteered at looked like high-security prisons for that reason.

Kudos to you for walking into such a big shelter. I found even the small private shelters to be overwhelming and while I'm forever grateful I found Carbon there and send regular updates on him to his shelter, I breathed a real sigh of relief when I wasn't going in every day anymore and could just focus on Carbon and Paul.

 

[Lab_adore]

 

[snowbunny]

The 'better' hunters take them to the shelter at the end of the hunting season, but then when the hunting season starts up again (and the shelters have kept the dogs fed and healthy for months) they often have break-ins where the dogs are stolen to be used again.

It’s the start of the hunting season now and that has prompted more dogs to be brought in. I’m not quite sure why, it seems weird because what you say has always been my understanding.

This shelter is definitely like Fort Knox. Coiled barbed wire on top of tall brick walls, and a heavy-duty electric gate with cameras everywhere. You can’t see in from the outside at all. But it’s clean and busy, staff live on-site, there are two vet offices on-site that offer low-price treatment for hunters, and they have a strong policy of working with the hunters for the welfare of the dogs, rather than railing against them.

 

[MrChew]

I always imagined people who hunt with dogs bonding with them through the work. I guess, sadly, some people just don't see dogs that way. Then again, as we see with the covid puppy problem, some people don't even see their pet dogs that way.

 

[Atemas]

I always imagined people who hunt with dogs bonding with them through the work. I guess, sadly, some people just don't see dogs that way. Then again, as we see with the covid puppy problem, some people don't even see their pet dogs that way.

It’s just so hard to understand that mindset isn’t?

 

[David]

I always imagined people who hunt with dogs bonding with them through the work. I guess, sadly, some people just don't see dogs that way. Then again, as we see with the covid puppy problem, some people don't even see their pet dogs that way.

They can't possibly be using the dogs other than for flushing or running down whatever they are hunting. Speaking from my limited experience, there is a strong bond between human and dog out in the field that builds over years to the extent that the pair do really form a coordinated team (most of the time ).

There's an article in today's London Sunday Times on a related problem - dog pooh everywhere. In some places it's a real problem with dog owner's not picking it up and it seems to have arisen for the same reasons.

 

[Emily_Babbelhund]

they have a strong policy of working with the hunters for the welfare of the dogs, rather than railing against them.

That's really good to hear.

Yeah, strange that they are getting dogs in at the beginning of the season. I hadn't even thought of that. Being in California has gotten my sense of the time of year all out of whack!

 

[edzbird]

It’s the start of the hunting season now and that has prompted more dogs to be brought in. I’m not quite sure why

Perhaps it's the first time the dogs prove themselves to be not good enough so they are rejected straight away.

 

[Granca]

There seem to be more dogs ‘taking their owners for a walk’ over the past months, rather than walking nicely on their leads. It can’t be much fun being towed at arm‘s length by your dog.

 

[edzbird]

It can’t be much fun being towed at arm‘s length by your dog.

it isn't