Animal Abandonment
Ho it should be handled38 total reviews
Comment from Wendy G
Your story makes me weep because I know this happens far too frequently and it is sickening and cruel, totally heartless. You developed the work well and included many powerful examples. Sending you my very best wishes for the contest, and also my deepest thanks for all that you have done and are doing for these poor confused and suffering animals.
Wendy
reply by the author on 13-Oct-2023
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Your story makes me weep because I know this happens far too frequently and it is sickening and cruel, totally heartless. You developed the work well and included many powerful examples. Sending you my very best wishes for the contest, and also my deepest thanks for all that you have done and are doing for these poor confused and suffering animals.
Wendy
Comment Written 13-Oct-2023
reply by the author on 13-Oct-2023
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Thank you, and thanks for the six stars. This is a huge problem in our society. Animal abusers often are people abusers too. I witness some terrible atrocities in my years of rescuing dogs and cats. Some things will haunt me forever. I can't put into words what I would like to do to these scumbags.
Comment from Carol Hillebrenner
Excellent rant and I agree with you 100 percent. I live on a lake with 109 houses and animals are dropped here all the time. One neighbor traps cats, gets them shots, spayed/neutered and then feeds them as long as they live in the warmed shed she has for them. Another neighbor turns them over to the animal warden and homes are often found for them. Some are found starved or run over because some idiot thinks they would like to live wild.
reply by the author on 13-Oct-2023
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Excellent rant and I agree with you 100 percent. I live on a lake with 109 houses and animals are dropped here all the time. One neighbor traps cats, gets them shots, spayed/neutered and then feeds them as long as they live in the warmed shed she has for them. Another neighbor turns them over to the animal warden and homes are often found for them. Some are found starved or run over because some idiot thinks they would like to live wild.
Comment Written 12-Oct-2023
reply by the author on 13-Oct-2023
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Thank you. Give your neighbors my heartfelt thanks for thier kindness to those precious creatures. I love to hear stories like yours.
Comment from Thesis
Your rant identifies a huge problem, not only in this country, but around the world. I like your solution. Let them understand the pain they caused and have them live with the consequences.
reply by the author on 13-Oct-2023
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Your rant identifies a huge problem, not only in this country, but around the world. I like your solution. Let them understand the pain they caused and have them live with the consequences.
Comment Written 12-Oct-2023
reply by the author on 13-Oct-2023
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Thank you. Like I said, we have to catch them first. The problem continues because it is easy to get away with dumping animals.
Comment from Karen Cherry Threadgill
Good rant. I agree with you. Those things that leave animals should be shipped off to Siberia with nothing but the clothes on their back just like the animals. Good clean understandable ranting. Karen
reply by the author on 13-Oct-2023
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Good rant. I agree with you. Those things that leave animals should be shipped off to Siberia with nothing but the clothes on their back just like the animals. Good clean understandable ranting. Karen
Comment Written 12-Oct-2023
reply by the author on 13-Oct-2023
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Thank you. It's good to know others feel like I do. It's a huge problem in this world.
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I fanned you, so I could get first crack at your writing. Sometimes like now I am writing a lot. Reverse hibernation or something.
Keep writing. I usually read one for one. Karen
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I write more in the winter. In summer, it seems like I'm always doing something, like mowing the lawn. We have a huge lawn, and I'm the official mower. Lol
Comment from Pam Lonsdale
It might be more humane if these people killed the animals instead of dropping them off somewhere. Why can't they just take them to a shelter?
I have two cats - both beautiful Seal Point Siamese and both abandoned in my neighborhood. They are the sweetest animals I've ever owned. My neighbor had a young mother feline show up at her back door with four kittens three years ago; she found a home for two kittens, kept the mother and the other two kittens - along with her own two older cats.
You consider Antarctica as a solution; my husband often mentions a "rocket ship to the sun". People can be cruel, look at Ukraine and Israel for examples. But there is no excuse for animals, as there are shelters or they could simply put something on Facebook or other social media and plead for help.
It hurts me, too, to see these poor innocent animals suffer.
Thanks for sharing that with us in your rant.
xo
Pam
reply by the author on 12-Oct-2023
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It might be more humane if these people killed the animals instead of dropping them off somewhere. Why can't they just take them to a shelter?
I have two cats - both beautiful Seal Point Siamese and both abandoned in my neighborhood. They are the sweetest animals I've ever owned. My neighbor had a young mother feline show up at her back door with four kittens three years ago; she found a home for two kittens, kept the mother and the other two kittens - along with her own two older cats.
You consider Antarctica as a solution; my husband often mentions a "rocket ship to the sun". People can be cruel, look at Ukraine and Israel for examples. But there is no excuse for animals, as there are shelters or they could simply put something on Facebook or other social media and plead for help.
It hurts me, too, to see these poor innocent animals suffer.
Thanks for sharing that with us in your rant.
xo
Pam
Comment Written 12-Oct-2023
reply by the author on 12-Oct-2023
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Thank you. There was no social media when I first started saving dogs and cats, but that was still no reason for people to abandon pets. I agree with you in that they would be better off dead than dumped in some remote area to starve to death. A rocket ship to the sun might be good too.
Comment from Douglas Goff
So, how do you really feel? Ha! This is great. Perfect LEGITIMATE rant for the contest.
I thought you had bailed from the site. It is great to see that you are still here. Very pleased!
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reply by the author on 12-Oct-2023
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So, how do you really feel? Ha! This is great. Perfect LEGITIMATE rant for the contest.
I thought you had bailed from the site. It is great to see that you are still here. Very pleased!
D
Comment Written 12-Oct-2023
reply by the author on 12-Oct-2023
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Thank you. If I expressed how I really felt, they probably wouldn't allow the story on FanStory for the language. I'm still here. I have been taking a proofreading course and haven't had a lot of time to spend writing stories.
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Good to see you, my friend!
Comment from Mary Vigasin
Great story. Thank you for your helping these abandoned animals. I do not understand how people can be so heartless. My first cat, Muldoon, was just a kitten when I found her. My guess is that she had digestive problems that they could not be bothered to treat. We had her for 22 years, and she was a loving animal who loved to greet people as they came through the door.
I agree that the penalty should be a lot stiffer for these sleazy characters. My choice for dumping them would be the desert, as they would suffer more.
Mary
reply by the author on 12-Oct-2023
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Great story. Thank you for your helping these abandoned animals. I do not understand how people can be so heartless. My first cat, Muldoon, was just a kitten when I found her. My guess is that she had digestive problems that they could not be bothered to treat. We had her for 22 years, and she was a loving animal who loved to greet people as they came through the door.
I agree that the penalty should be a lot stiffer for these sleazy characters. My choice for dumping them would be the desert, as they would suffer more.
Mary
Comment Written 12-Oct-2023
reply by the author on 12-Oct-2023
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Thank you. You might be right about the desert. They would suffer a lot longer than if they froze to death. Lol I have been hearing so many great stories on here about animals the FanStorians have cared for. It does my heart good.
Comment from Terry Broxson
Dang, I have a name for folks like you describe...but I don't want to have to put a notice up for language. Two of the cats we adopted had been abandoned. Zoe had found them when she was out for her afternoon walk. They were named Oscar and Felix, a were really great cats! Thank you for writing this rant. Terry.
reply by the author on 12-Oct-2023
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Dang, I have a name for folks like you describe...but I don't want to have to put a notice up for language. Two of the cats we adopted had been abandoned. Zoe had found them when she was out for her afternoon walk. They were named Oscar and Felix, a were really great cats! Thank you for writing this rant. Terry.
Comment Written 12-Oct-2023
reply by the author on 12-Oct-2023
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Thank you. I would love to say worse than I did, but I was watching the language, too. Lol
Comment from Daylily
My heart is really with you concerning the animal-abandonment scene. I took in my own little Jessie Cat after she was left behind when a family moved. She was just a walking skeleton. Now, however, she is definitely The Queen of My Digs. Thank you for sharing this informative writing about a crucial subject.
reply by the author on 12-Oct-2023
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My heart is really with you concerning the animal-abandonment scene. I took in my own little Jessie Cat after she was left behind when a family moved. She was just a walking skeleton. Now, however, she is definitely The Queen of My Digs. Thank you for sharing this informative writing about a crucial subject.
Comment Written 12-Oct-2023
reply by the author on 12-Oct-2023
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Thank you for reading and commenting. There is nothing I hate more than people who do these kind of things. They are hard to catch as I mentioned in the story.
Comment from Paul Manton
The Great Australian Desert, the Gobi, the Atacama or a convenient gulag in Siberia! Allow me to join your rant, and also to thank you on behalf of all God's defenseless creatures. Michigan laws sound sufficiently harsh, but as you say, catch the blighters first!
In the UK, we are fortunate to have a national animal charity with teeth! The RSPCA will not only rescue, care for and rehouse abandoned pets; it will IN EVERY CASE prosecute anyone who has broken our very strict animal rights laws. And people do go to prison. And they are nationally hated by a country who would wish to hang all cruel people of this kind! You would like it here. We also have the Battersea Homes for Dogs and Cats and the PDSA. These are all on national tv every week throughout the UK.
If you brought your story to us in this country, PrettyBluebirds, you would be on breakfast (network) tv for a week.
So, rant over - you have 70 million friends across the pond!
We love you very much.
Paul
reply by the author on 12-Oct-2023
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The Great Australian Desert, the Gobi, the Atacama or a convenient gulag in Siberia! Allow me to join your rant, and also to thank you on behalf of all God's defenseless creatures. Michigan laws sound sufficiently harsh, but as you say, catch the blighters first!
In the UK, we are fortunate to have a national animal charity with teeth! The RSPCA will not only rescue, care for and rehouse abandoned pets; it will IN EVERY CASE prosecute anyone who has broken our very strict animal rights laws. And people do go to prison. And they are nationally hated by a country who would wish to hang all cruel people of this kind! You would like it here. We also have the Battersea Homes for Dogs and Cats and the PDSA. These are all on national tv every week throughout the UK.
If you brought your story to us in this country, PrettyBluebirds, you would be on breakfast (network) tv for a week.
So, rant over - you have 70 million friends across the pond!
We love you very much.
Paul
Comment Written 12-Oct-2023
reply by the author on 12-Oct-2023
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Thank you. Maybe I should move to your country. There is so much animal cruelty that goes unpunished in Michigan. I saved all of them I could, and I wish I could save them all. A lot of the shelters around here won't accept any cats because they are so overloaded. It's a sad, sad situation. I'm seventy-seven and still have six of the cats that were tossed along our road. The oldest one is twenty-two, and the youngest is six. I'm going to have to live to be ninety so they don't outlive me. I intend to do just that.
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We are the same age - must have been a good year!
Brits are famously animal lovers - but the USA is officially the home of the most cats. (Quiz question last weekend - which I got wrong!)
Best wishes, Paul