LOOK what we found! DUW

[Barbel]

Maybe, maybe, maybe... If you are desperate to get your dog back, you will find a way.

Sorry, but you are not here, you can not see her and you don't know my neighborhood. She is much skinnier than she appears in her photos. She also has some scabs in her ears. There are A LOT of stray dogs that run around here and they are not badly malnourished because there are things for them to eat; lots of trash for them to get into and they drink out of the irrigation canals. When my sister brought her home she was EXTREMELY dirty and had dirt caked on her paws. We of course gave her a bath. Her nails are also worn to the quick.
As far as fencing... here in the Phoenix area we do not have wood or chain link fences. EVERYONE and I mean EVERYONE has block fencing which is basically cinder blocks stacked and cemented together. They bury them
into the ground to keep the walls from falling over and they are stacked up high. My boyfriend is 6'1 and even on his tip toes, he can not see over the top of the fence. They are all built the same because the housing additions put them up. So with a cement fence that is over six feet tall and at least a foot under the ground, please explain to me how a dog is going to repeatedly escape? Even if the dog was a ravanous digger even the most careless person is going to notice a hole of that magnitude. The only place a dog can get out is under the gate. Yards with dogs have something blocking their gate whether it be cinder blocks, rocks, boards, bricks etc... Now if your dog keeps getting out and you cared, wouldn't you just block that 4 foot space under the gate? Especially if it happened repeatedly?
I know what I am doing is right. If she had tags, or even just a collar I would make a conscious effort to find her owner and I have found and returned pets before, but that along with other circumstances have led us to this decision. I am done justifying it. Think ill of me if you'd like, but I know in my heart this what is best for her.

 

[goReptiles]

If you don't know previous care, you can't know that it's the right thing.

As for a dog repeatedly getting out... My aunt's great dane did. They locked the latch on the gate bc he was flipping it up and getting out. They built up the fence and he kept jumping it. No matter what they did while they were working on their privacy fence he got out daily. At first they had no clue he was getting out bc he would return home beforehand, but then he just started staying out until they got home.

I know a lady who's lab mix will scale a 10 foot fence. Dogs get out even with tall fences.

It's not that uncommon for outside dogs to have fly bites and scabs on the ears.

Some dogs travel when they get out. Max sure did. My aunt lives in the far back corner of this neighborhood, and the people at the very front were saying they saw him out roaming, and it's a pretty big neighborhood.

Either way, I hope the owners get their dog back.

I'm really not trying to be frustrated. I'm just trying to give options and possible explanations as to why the dog got loose, but it seems that there just isn't an excuse for a person's dog to get out, and you're a bad owner if your dog gets out a few times.

 

[JordanAng420]

Off topic:

It alarms me that you keep mentioning the scabs in the ears. Pitts and Boxers get a skin mite called Scabies, i'm sure you've heard of it at some point. The first place the scabs appear are usually the ears, and the dog is usually super itchy. The reason why I mention this, is because it's zoonotic, which means that if it is scabies, you can get it too. Just be careful. If you start getting itchy, you'll know what it is.

 

[BrilliantEraser]

I was going to mention ear mites, but you beat me to it! :laugh:

 

[LizMarie]

Barbel I can sorta understand why you don't want to look for the owner because some people are just dishonest and don't deserve animals.

Since last year my mom had been feeding a one-eyed Maine Coon stray. Poor thing was fighting for food and spending the cold winter storms out in the cold. You could tell he wasn't the average street cat because he had some class. After a few months the cat began to follow my mom home so she called our vets office and told them about the cat and what they can do, of course they said BRING HIM IN! Before taking him in we asked EVERYONE in the neighborhood if they knew of the cat and everyone said that No he's been living on the street for the past few months. With no owner we took him to our vet to find out he had a little City Shelter tag on with an ID number. The manager called the pound and gave them the ID number and saw that the cat had been "adopted" in Feb of 09 and when they checked their records this person had never called to report their cat was ever lost or stolen like your suppose to. A month passed the cat was renamed, readopted and a summons worth a few thousand was sent out to the previous owner and what happened the owner started calling all the vet offices in the Bronx asking if anyone had ever seen her cat who just disappeared one day. Funny that the address they still live at is right up the block!

 

[goReptiles]

Oooo. I have a story.

A lady a work, has a blue male un-neutered APBT. They live on a small plot of land a little out in the country. The dog gets out once in a while, but always comes back within a few ours. Well, one day he didn't come back. They hunted and hunted for the dog for a few days. One night they heard him barking. The husband went off into the woods but couldn't ever find the dog. Well, after the few days they found a found dog poster. It was there dog. A guy had found him roaming around. The dog was starving, a little dehydrated, and plain exhausted. They took the dog to the vet the next day to get checked out, and that's the end of the story.

Moral of the story- things happen.

some people are just dishonest and don't deserve animals.

Most definitely correct, but it's hard to judge the owners if you don't know who they are or how they were caring for the dog. Most places will tell you to put in an ad saying "found dog, medium size, white and tan markings." Keep it general, and when people call, have them further describe the dog in detail before ever letting them see the dog.

 

[KelliH]

She's a beautiful dog, best of luck finding her a loving home.