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[PuppyBreath]

Kalli - you did exactly the right thing. Bless your heart for saving 2 furbabies.

PS - always consider a RESCUE over a shelter, or even a humane society.

[kittykatkay]

I am so glad everything worked out, Kalli.....you're a good woman!

[birddrops]

You are a wonderful person Kalli! May all good things come your way.

[MaggieToo]

[maryebrown_1]

On 3/15/2014 hckynut said:

What I would do is put out a humane trap to catch them. Most areas have "no kill shelters" somewhere close to where one lives. My wife is a board member with the Boxer Rescue Organization that covers 5 states.

Kalli, I understand you situation but it is animal lovers like yourself that get into this situations and just plain don't know what to do. We would trap them and then consider our next step from there.

If nothing can be done I would rather have them humanely put down than possibly get hit by a motor vehicle and possibly suffer a slow and painful death.

Hope all is well with you are you BIG animals. We just trapped a feral last Thursday and took her in to have her spayed. Fortunately the timing was right as they told us she was in heat and we would have had a whole 'nother caboodle of kittens to raise and adopt out. We put her back out yesterday and she is going just fine. Now we gotta catch the feral male that has been running around here.

The ferals are always the hardest to catch. We've been feeding a female for over 4 years now, she will not let us "touch" her, but she brushes us at the ankles. She's well-fed by us, goes into heat twice a year and we have to fend off 'the one night stand' males...OY!

If we 'touch' her, he gets manic and disappears...and the "mistrust" lasts for 2 weeks. So, we just deal with her quirks. She really enjoys being out on the back porch with DH & me in the summertime, when we play my songs on the BOSE!

[PuppyBreath]

On 3/16/2014 elated said:

Someone probably dropped the dogs off and will not claim them. I would see if I could find a rescue organization that might be able to take them. What are the breeds of the dogs? Don't take them back to the road and leave them--that would be cruel. They would get killed. Do you know anyone that would take the dogs? I think the owner will not come forward because they are cruel and inhumane. It is so sad that our society think that animals are disposable. I always say what comes around goes around. Thank you for being a kind and caring person--there are not many of you left in this world. As my cousin would say, there are so many despicable people. Please let us know what happens.

Unfortunately, the rescue I work with sees this every week it seems. Recently we found a 3 mo. old Beagle pup on Valentine's Day abandoned in a ditch/snowbank in -20 weather. He had 2 deformed front legs. We named him Cupid, and raised funds for his corrective surgery. He had surgery at the U of Mn. last Tuesday, and is safe in a foster home.