23 Cats' Dad
02-08-2008, 03:35 AM
Please let me know if I did the right thing. I would like to know what some of your opinions are.
I have some neighbors that are very nice to us and they let their little 6 year old boy come over sometimes and play with my wife outside or she has babysat him a couple of times. They are suppose to be very religous and go to church every Sunday morning/night and Wednesday nights. They are both in their late 30's & neither uses profanity.
Up unitl this week, they had a full blooded male Boxer (Odie) that is about 6-8 months old and a little 2 year old male Beagle/Daschund mix (Red) that has just been making me sick at the treatment these poor dogs have been getting. These poor dogs have been put into a dogpin that measures about 5'x8' chain link that is ankle deep in black mud and feces. The pin stays muddy all the time accept for when there's a drought in the summertime where the poor dogs never got any drinking water unless my wife or I walked over and gave it to them.
To start this off...My neighbors live approx. 60' from us. We look out our front door and we're looking at the side of their house with their driveway running between us to their backyard & garage. Everything is just very close to us, so we can see everything that goes on + I'm disabled & can't physically do much of anything, so we're at home most all of the time.
Their little dogpin is approx. 100' so we can see the dogs also.
A Daschund & a Jack Russel they use to have had both ran off in 2 seperate incidents within 4 months apart & neither one returned. We live in a quite little neighborhood with the only traffic being other neighbors coming and going & all 3 streets around here all dead-in, so there no speeders or anything like that so around the early spring of 2007, they got this little dog(Red) and put him in this small pin and then around July or August of 2007, they got this Boxer (Odie). He was 8 weeks old, very healthy & cute as a button. They kept him inside their house for about 1 month & out he went into the small pin. The guy said that Odie was too hyper & they couldn't control him, but he was going to put Odie thru Obediance Training & then he could come back in. Well after this Boxer pup had been kept in a 2'x3' little bitty itsy bitsy cage all day for 12-15 hours everyday, well he was hyper. We knew that the poor dog would be stuck outside forever, because I had figured my neighbors out not too long after we moved in our house in December 2006 & I knew they were both full of B.S.
This past summer of 2007, they went on vacation for a week, 2 seperate times to Gulf Shores, Alabama and ask us to feed & water their dogs. We happily accepted the responsibility and after they left, we walked over and the poor dogs didn't have a drop of water or food. They had a salad bowl for water with a 10 inch crack across the bottom. It was completely drained out within 1 minute of filling it up. Well Alabama was under an EXTREME DROUGHT all summer and the temp. was between 96*-105*. The Water Works Board had very strict policies against using water for lawns & washing cars, but I know they didn't mean to not give your dogs any drinking water. I got a large bucket that cat litter comes in and tied it to the fence so the dogs couldn't turn it over & they both drank until they were sick.
For shelter, they had a medium-sized 2'x4' pet carrier that kept coming apart because the top piece wasn't screwed to the bottom, they didn't have a dog house, just this pet carrier without a top.
A couple of weeks ago, both dogs were running loose and I watched them and the poor Boxer has a serious problem with it's hind-in. I don't know if it's his hips or spine, but he couldn't hardly walk and his rearend was all hunkered down. He looks like he has bee starved. His ribs, spine, and hip bones look as if they are going to pierce thru his skin. He can't weigh no more than 35-40 LBS & he doesn't have the heighth like a 6-8 month old male Boxer should have.
The little dog had long worms crawling out of his butt. I told them and they were like, "yeah, we need to take him to the vet sometime if we can ever think of it". I thought to myself, you F*$#!*(^$)$!~whitetrash$@!(~~&). It made me sick to think that both of these poor dogs had to go back in that filthy pin.
Well lately, we've had a few very cold nights around 12*-40* with rain, sleet/snow one day, more rain, sunshine, and now it's about 55* in the daytime and these dogs don't have anywhere to get in out of the cold rain. The pet carrier they have is in 2 pieces with the top piece upside down & holding water and the bottom part holding about 4 inches of water.The only drinking water they had was from the rain & it was like green syrap mixed with mud & feces & no food. My wife called them Saturday night 2-2-08 & informed them that the dogs had nowhere to get out of the rain. They should know, being they have to come out their back door every day and get in their vehicles right there 30 feet next to the dogpin and it shouldn't be up to us to have to tell these people what their pets need. I mean, they never even looked at the dogs, much less pet them or give them any attention. They had NEVER been to a vetenarian.
Monday 2-4-08 after they left for work, we went over and there everything was just like I explained to the "t". I called the Greater Birmingham Humane Society & got the phone # to The Jefferson County Sheriff's Department. I called them and reported it. Before the police could do anything, they would have to have a complaint, so they sent out a Deputy & I signed a complaint and showed the officer the dogs. I wasn't sure what steps would be taken, but 2 hours later, the officer returned with a guy from The Greater Birmingham Humane Society. I had to write out a brief report in my own words telling everything that I knew. They took a few Digital Photos & then an Animal Control Officer showed up with a truck with cages built on the back. They took both dogs & took some close up pictures of the dogs conditions & the dogpin. The Animal Control Officer said that the Boxer was emaciated and his feet were in awful condition because of having to stand in the mud and feces 24/7 for at atleast the past 3+ months. He looked as if he hadn't been fed right since a puppy & his growth was stunted. They said that both dogs would be taken to a vet & cared for & given a warm dry place to sleep. She said that it would be up to a judge to decide whether or not the neighbors got their dogs back.
They are also being charged with 2 Class C Felonies for the 2 dogs. Even though the dogs looked so scared being taken away in that truck, I felt very good and at ease knowing that these 2 dogs depressing, cold, hungry, wet, smelling days were now behind them.
I knew that when the neighbors came in from work that night and saw the 2 Class C Felony papers on the door, that they would probly be knockin on our door and I was right. I hated to do this to our neighbors that we have to live by, but I felt that there wasn't any other options. I really didn't like them too much because of how they treat pets + they have taken advantage of my wife keeping their little boy. A friend of mine gave them $100 worth of stuff to get their AC working this past summer & the guy didn't even tell my friend thank you or offer him any money or nothing. They're always preaching and talking about church & this & that, but they treat their pets this way.
He told me that he was going to call Animal Control on our 6 Feral Cats getting on their property and an old junkyard car he has & if animal control didn't do anything, then he was going to catch the cats and take them to the Humane Society. I just promised him that I would kill him if he no more than touched a hair on my cats. I've had all 8 feral cats spayed/neutered. Everything is cooled down now because his wife came over and apoligized & admitted that they didn't care for the dogs the right way.
I just explained that they wouldn't let their son live in that condition, so the dogs shouldn't either. I think that all animals should have the exact same rights as a child & I honestly mean that.
I have some neighbors that are very nice to us and they let their little 6 year old boy come over sometimes and play with my wife outside or she has babysat him a couple of times. They are suppose to be very religous and go to church every Sunday morning/night and Wednesday nights. They are both in their late 30's & neither uses profanity.
Up unitl this week, they had a full blooded male Boxer (Odie) that is about 6-8 months old and a little 2 year old male Beagle/Daschund mix (Red) that has just been making me sick at the treatment these poor dogs have been getting. These poor dogs have been put into a dogpin that measures about 5'x8' chain link that is ankle deep in black mud and feces. The pin stays muddy all the time accept for when there's a drought in the summertime where the poor dogs never got any drinking water unless my wife or I walked over and gave it to them.
To start this off...My neighbors live approx. 60' from us. We look out our front door and we're looking at the side of their house with their driveway running between us to their backyard & garage. Everything is just very close to us, so we can see everything that goes on + I'm disabled & can't physically do much of anything, so we're at home most all of the time.
Their little dogpin is approx. 100' so we can see the dogs also.
A Daschund & a Jack Russel they use to have had both ran off in 2 seperate incidents within 4 months apart & neither one returned. We live in a quite little neighborhood with the only traffic being other neighbors coming and going & all 3 streets around here all dead-in, so there no speeders or anything like that so around the early spring of 2007, they got this little dog(Red) and put him in this small pin and then around July or August of 2007, they got this Boxer (Odie). He was 8 weeks old, very healthy & cute as a button. They kept him inside their house for about 1 month & out he went into the small pin. The guy said that Odie was too hyper & they couldn't control him, but he was going to put Odie thru Obediance Training & then he could come back in. Well after this Boxer pup had been kept in a 2'x3' little bitty itsy bitsy cage all day for 12-15 hours everyday, well he was hyper. We knew that the poor dog would be stuck outside forever, because I had figured my neighbors out not too long after we moved in our house in December 2006 & I knew they were both full of B.S.
This past summer of 2007, they went on vacation for a week, 2 seperate times to Gulf Shores, Alabama and ask us to feed & water their dogs. We happily accepted the responsibility and after they left, we walked over and the poor dogs didn't have a drop of water or food. They had a salad bowl for water with a 10 inch crack across the bottom. It was completely drained out within 1 minute of filling it up. Well Alabama was under an EXTREME DROUGHT all summer and the temp. was between 96*-105*. The Water Works Board had very strict policies against using water for lawns & washing cars, but I know they didn't mean to not give your dogs any drinking water. I got a large bucket that cat litter comes in and tied it to the fence so the dogs couldn't turn it over & they both drank until they were sick.
For shelter, they had a medium-sized 2'x4' pet carrier that kept coming apart because the top piece wasn't screwed to the bottom, they didn't have a dog house, just this pet carrier without a top.
A couple of weeks ago, both dogs were running loose and I watched them and the poor Boxer has a serious problem with it's hind-in. I don't know if it's his hips or spine, but he couldn't hardly walk and his rearend was all hunkered down. He looks like he has bee starved. His ribs, spine, and hip bones look as if they are going to pierce thru his skin. He can't weigh no more than 35-40 LBS & he doesn't have the heighth like a 6-8 month old male Boxer should have.
The little dog had long worms crawling out of his butt. I told them and they were like, "yeah, we need to take him to the vet sometime if we can ever think of it". I thought to myself, you F*$#!*(^$)$!~whitetrash$@!(~~&). It made me sick to think that both of these poor dogs had to go back in that filthy pin.
Well lately, we've had a few very cold nights around 12*-40* with rain, sleet/snow one day, more rain, sunshine, and now it's about 55* in the daytime and these dogs don't have anywhere to get in out of the cold rain. The pet carrier they have is in 2 pieces with the top piece upside down & holding water and the bottom part holding about 4 inches of water.The only drinking water they had was from the rain & it was like green syrap mixed with mud & feces & no food. My wife called them Saturday night 2-2-08 & informed them that the dogs had nowhere to get out of the rain. They should know, being they have to come out their back door every day and get in their vehicles right there 30 feet next to the dogpin and it shouldn't be up to us to have to tell these people what their pets need. I mean, they never even looked at the dogs, much less pet them or give them any attention. They had NEVER been to a vetenarian.
Monday 2-4-08 after they left for work, we went over and there everything was just like I explained to the "t". I called the Greater Birmingham Humane Society & got the phone # to The Jefferson County Sheriff's Department. I called them and reported it. Before the police could do anything, they would have to have a complaint, so they sent out a Deputy & I signed a complaint and showed the officer the dogs. I wasn't sure what steps would be taken, but 2 hours later, the officer returned with a guy from The Greater Birmingham Humane Society. I had to write out a brief report in my own words telling everything that I knew. They took a few Digital Photos & then an Animal Control Officer showed up with a truck with cages built on the back. They took both dogs & took some close up pictures of the dogs conditions & the dogpin. The Animal Control Officer said that the Boxer was emaciated and his feet were in awful condition because of having to stand in the mud and feces 24/7 for at atleast the past 3+ months. He looked as if he hadn't been fed right since a puppy & his growth was stunted. They said that both dogs would be taken to a vet & cared for & given a warm dry place to sleep. She said that it would be up to a judge to decide whether or not the neighbors got their dogs back.
They are also being charged with 2 Class C Felonies for the 2 dogs. Even though the dogs looked so scared being taken away in that truck, I felt very good and at ease knowing that these 2 dogs depressing, cold, hungry, wet, smelling days were now behind them.
I knew that when the neighbors came in from work that night and saw the 2 Class C Felony papers on the door, that they would probly be knockin on our door and I was right. I hated to do this to our neighbors that we have to live by, but I felt that there wasn't any other options. I really didn't like them too much because of how they treat pets + they have taken advantage of my wife keeping their little boy. A friend of mine gave them $100 worth of stuff to get their AC working this past summer & the guy didn't even tell my friend thank you or offer him any money or nothing. They're always preaching and talking about church & this & that, but they treat their pets this way.
He told me that he was going to call Animal Control on our 6 Feral Cats getting on their property and an old junkyard car he has & if animal control didn't do anything, then he was going to catch the cats and take them to the Humane Society. I just promised him that I would kill him if he no more than touched a hair on my cats. I've had all 8 feral cats spayed/neutered. Everything is cooled down now because his wife came over and apoligized & admitted that they didn't care for the dogs the right way.
I just explained that they wouldn't let their son live in that condition, so the dogs shouldn't either. I think that all animals should have the exact same rights as a child & I honestly mean that.