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LeftyMom

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19. You're literally wrong on every point.

Sat May 17, 2014, 10:48 AM

May 2014

1. Chaining a dog for more than three hours in a twenty four hour period is illegal in California. As is keeping a dog without access to food, water and shade for any period.
2. Peanut is a not a thing.
3. There is no justification for neglect. If you can not be home you make arrangements for your pets, just as you would for your kids.
4. Animal control is overstretched in the best of places, and Oakland is not the best of places. Often their responses are slow. Even where they can invoke emergency rules to take an obviously endangered dog (rather than having to make several trips and give several notices) they would be taking the dog to a municipal shelter. The chances of leaving a municipal shelter for even a healthy, well socialized dog are not great. Sick dogs are usually killed as soon as they enter.

The dog was left for dead and now she's thriving. If you have a problem with that something is fucking wrong with you.

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How To Rescue Chained Dogs and Practice Nonviolence At the Same Time [View all] xchrom May 2014 OP

I love dog rescue stories!! Inkfreak May 2014 #1

me too xchrom May 2014 #3

A better first step seveneyes May 2014 #2

Assuming the dog was alive when they got there LeftyMom May 2014 #20

Thank you for this, xchrom! Kick!!! Heidi May 2014 #4

HEIDI!11 i'm showing off my new Coiffure today xchrom May 2014 #9

My lands, you're divine!!! Heidi May 2014 #13

How I got my little monster. hobbit709 May 2014 #5

And those people have kids...???? nt Bigmack May 2014 #7

such a punim! xchrom May 2014 #10

Marcy is gorgeous! StarryNite May 2014 #27

Theft is the wrong move among several errors Android3.14 May 2014 #6

theft isn't always wrong oneofthe99 May 2014 #8

Actually, many cities have laws that militate AGAINST having Erich Bloodaxe BSN May 2014 #11

Amy's Peanut is rescued. chervilant May 2014 #14

One: It is agains the law in California Le Taz Hot May 2014 #18

You're literally wrong on every point. LeftyMom May 2014 #19

Peanut says it was a good move. roody May 2014 #30

if that dog was the person's only companion, then they left their only companion to starve to death. magical thyme May 2014 #31

Perhaps Android3.14 May 2014 #32

there is "doing things right" and "doing the right thing." magical thyme May 2014 #33

In Rochester, NY, Habibi May 2014 #12

I keep boltcutters in my trunk for a reason. flvegan May 2014 #15

The word is "glurge" Android3.14 May 2014 #16

What a load of taurine metabolic byproducts. hobbit709 May 2014 #17

Nope Android3.14 May 2014 #21

Possibly. distantearlywarning May 2014 #24

Please don't misunderstand Android3.14 May 2014 #22

I'd take the dog, and then I'd call the police. hunter May 2014 #25

This: CrispyQ May 2014 #28

I do feel theft is generally wrong and a detrimental action within a civilized society. distantearlywarning May 2014 #23

I have no doubt you'd have the courage to rescue a dog. No doubt in my mind. KittyWampus May 2014 #26

My husband & I would surrepticiously capture & have our neighbor's cats spayed & catbyte May 2014 #29