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if you do that though, you are rewarding the abusers.
The best thing to do would be to tape it on film/auto recorder and show it to the police/AC
I thought about peeking out the windows with the video camera. I might do that tonite as a matter of fact. The problem is that, now he's been caught by me so I don't think he will do it outside anymore. The poor dog is still over there and nobody can do anything about it!
nope, for the most part, the law treats pets as property.
i once found a dog running out in the street who had either been out for a long time or had been severely neglected. a lot of the shelter workers i encountered with her (i took her to be checked for a microchip and for vet care) told me to stop looking for her owners, but i wanted to assume the best of people. when i found the owners i learned she had only been out of their yard for a few minutes and her severely matted hair and festering wound had been acquired while living with these people.
before i returned her i spoke to some humane officers and you could hear the frustration in their voices when they said "dogs are considered property, you have to return her or it's theft."
i did bring her to the local shelter where one of the officers works and told her owners to pick her up there, so at least there was documentation of her state and the owners hopefully got a talking-to about caring for their dog.
nope, for the most part, the law treats pets as property.
i once found a dog running out in the street who had either been out for a long time or had been severely neglected. a lot of the shelter workers i encountered with her (i took her to be checked for a microchip and for vet care) told me to stop looking for her owners, but i wanted to assume the best of people. when i found the owners i learned she had only been out of their yard for a few minutes and her severely matted hair and festering wound had been acquired while living with these people.
before i returned her i spoke to some humane officers and you could hear the frustration in their voices when they said "dogs are considered property, you have to return her or it's theft."
i did bring her to the local shelter where one of the officers works and told her owners to pick her up there, so at least there was documentation of her state and the owners hopefully got a talking-to about caring for their dog.
That's what the humane soceity just told me, the dog is his property!
If you get another chance, take the dog and re-home it asap; he would never be able to prove that you took the dog and it is actually the easiest solution, although it will not prohibit him from getting another dog, which might actually be the case if he is arrested/fined by animal control.
I've been in your shoes very recently. No body is going to help you save that dog. Not the cops and not the Humane Society. Your only chance would be if you get the abuse on video. And even then, they will get a slap on the wrist and teh dog will still go home with them.
But then again, it was pretty obvious which house our rescue came from when I found her terrified and malnourished on the side of the road. Needless to say..we just kept an eye out for a missing dog poster.
Didn't happen, so now she's ours. And a fat and happy lapdog at that. Screw the law, dogs=babies.
did 911 give you any grief for calling them? one time we called 911 for my dog when it somehow jumped up in its crate and got its head stuck in the bars and was hanging in the middle of the night, her sister barked for ever and this was not unusual for them to whine so I let it go for a bit until I got up, never again, it was so awful, we managed to get the crate apart but could not get the dogs head out and we had to hold the top up or she would choke, so my sister called 911 and they were really mad, they helped us but stressed that 911 is only for emergencies, my sister said in tears 'well this is an emergency!' then I felt kind of bad because what if that tied up the lines and someone had a human emergency, who are you suppose to call in the middle of the night for dog emergencies???
look into whether your area has a non-emergency number, i think it's often 311. i've called 911 for animal control issues before though, and never got any guff for it. i guess it depends on the operator you get.
in your case, i'd say you were totally justified in calling 911 and the operator was being a jerk. what else were you supposed to do? you needed help.
report them to rescue ink . guaranteed anybody who has watched this show will never abuse another dog .
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