and cats too.

That's one way to eradicate the problem of strays.

Here's a story about an American traveling in China and how his new friend, a stray dog, wound up on the dinner table... sad indeed!

PLEASE DON'T EAT LASSIE!

There's a couple of little yappy dogs next door to me you're welcome to come eat, I'll even supply the condiments, everyone likes ketchup and mustard on their dogs right? If I was little less of a nice guy these little noisy yappy mutts would have already had a Prestone cocktail.

I yam what I yam....Popeye

Prestone cocktail (ha!)

I'd have to be mighty hungry to eat those cute doggies.

Strange though, that we have a tough time thinking about eating fido here in America, when the Asian cultures can turn a pup into a tasty gourmet meal:

PASS THE BBQ SAUCE PLEASE!

Fido Mignon! Now serving at the Grand Buffet.

But why oh why did I click that link????!!!! Darn you Mainstreeeeeaaaaammmmmmm!!!!!!!

Kevin "Hack" King

Ha! Gotcha!

Icky link, but that pup actually looks kinda tasty!

What breed do you think? Boxer maybe?? (no pun intended)

Hey, sweeeeet dreams and travel safely!!

Sweet dreams to you and your love bunny!

Kevin "Hack" King

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Dog... mmmmm tastes like chicken.

Seriously though, I had a brief encounter with the PTC Humane Society (off of 74 south) and I was less than impressed as well.

My kids talked me into picking up 4 stray puppies that someone had dumped down in Pike County. We were driving around visiting friends down there and noticed the pups on a river bank and they were crying and barking for help. We gathered them up and they were so precious but we couldn't keep any of them, so I drove them over to the Humane Society and the folks that worked there seemed pretty put off that I had done that! Some guy came out to my SUV and put leashes on the pups and drug them across the parking lot and one of the doggies was so scared that it lost its bowels all over itself. It was horrible to watch. It upset my kids to see the pups treated so cruelly, a second time!

Anyway, I'm not sure if they were adopted or not but it sure gave me a bad impression of that place.

Just to clarify -

The Fayette County Animal Shelter is a different entity than the Fayette County Humane Society. Although they do try to work together toward the greater good. (see my other response regarding the flooring and skylights the Humane Society funded for the Animal Shelter).

The Shelter is a tax-based, county-run facility.

The Humane Society is an all-volunteer, non-profit, donation-only run organization without a facility at all.

zoes

Thanks for the clarification.

But which organization is down off of 74 South, by Rockaway Rd? Humane Society or Animal Shelter??

Fayette animal 'shelter' on 74 is the pound. Humane society is totaly different. 74/pound is the ones with the cattle prods so to speak

Humaine society is a group like the you went in downtown Atlanta off Hugh Howell Rd.

I saw a dog on the side of road that was very thin and had open sores. I stopped picked her up, it took awhile for her to come to me, she was very afraid of people. Probably with good reason. Anyway I am already at the ridiculous low limit of 3 pets so I knew I couldn't keep her.

I drove to the shelter and they sent someone out with a leash. She was afraid, but by talking to her she had calmed down in the ride to the shelter. The man comes out I pick her up take her out of the car. He put the leash on her, no soft talking trying to reassure a scared animal, he dragged her into the shelter. I begged him to let me pick her up and carry her in, he said no and said that I couldn't follow him.

I will never take another animal there. Which I'm sure is what they want. They obviously don't want to work, and they all seem to really really hate their jobs, and animals.

was it a black dog on Spence road? If so, we saw the same dog.

She was a white dog, maybe a shepherd? I did call some people I know from one of the rescue groups. I described her and gave a large donation to pay for her medical care. They saved her.

you are a big sweet softie! That is wonderful. I guess you read about the one I saw on Spence road. All I know is someone picked it up but it looked like it lost all will to live. I was off the next day and called all the vets in this area but couldn't find anyone who treated such a dog. Whoever picked that dog up was big hearted and if you are reading this, I want to say 'thank you'.

I have sucker written on my forehead, and I can't drive by. That is how I got my first 3 dogs. I can't help it and so far no Dr. has been able to find a drug to cure me.

you are a good person Skyspy, and one day you will look back on your life and know the world is a better place because of the little things you have done. I think it is really a gift that we have people like you. It is a sad commentary on our society that now days that is called sucker, and it was once called brave, noble, compassionate, gentlemanly, and many other more fitting things.

That is one of the nicest things anyone has ever said to me. Have a good day, you cheered me up.

Main stream that is what we are talking about. They have no compasion for the animals and I'm surprised they didn't tell you they were your 'pets', therefore your responsibility. We are one of the riches counties around, and they ding the dog owners every chance they get. They take in a ton of money in their kangeroo court. Between those, they should be able to afford some more kennels and some people with some compassion. I would like to know where the money goes.

More Chinese food?
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over having to step in their crap every day out in your front yard.

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What do you think were in those taco and enchiladas we ate a couple of weeks ago? You didn't see those collars on the wall with out a dog's neck in 'em? Cy... buddy... sometimes you are soooo naive.

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Cy told me what the insurance company is going to pay him for his truck, I think he told them the wrong year, or was that the wrong truck?

I yam what I yam....Popeye

I think I'm going to give up my day job and join the demolition derby. It pays better.
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But after having glass dug out your carcass, I would say it was hardly worth it.

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it didn't reach any vital organs. Good night all. I got to fold some laundry and then it's lights out.
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I ate the same thing as you - I think.
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you don't know that some of us ..don't help the homeless.! That isn't a nice thing to say... and I have, to the point that I brought one home I found at the airport and when my husband woke up, he bout had a stroke! I explained the man had no place to go and I was gonna try to find a relative of his. As it turned out, all of us on my team at work chipped in, gave money, and found a relative to send him to. He was old, incoherent, and given a one way ticket back to the south by his daughter who never wanted to see him again. Trouble was he hadn't lived here in 50 years and had no one to help hime till I found him crying.

I salute thee and appreciate your heart. So I'll make you the exception to my statement and stand by it. So many of our homeless are beyond being helped. We need to have mercy and take pity on them while occasionally meeting their needs. There are, however, a small percentage of them that, with our aide, will rise up out that lifestyle. Those are the gems that put a big grin on your face. Like Wulfman's friend Pam.

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I don't know if the man is guilty or innocent. I think the whole thing is horrible and will be tried in court and not in the paper and put the child in the public eye anymore than has to be.

It amazes me that the accused predators always gets more sympathy than their alleged victim or victims do.

BTW.... It's my understanding that the accused predator, in this case, confessed. So I guess that makes him a predator instead of an accused one. That is until his trial lawyers starts directing his conscious and historical recollections.

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No one wanted to help you cause they weren't gonna make any money off you. They have no people skills at all. You made a good point contrasting them to the Atlanta Humane Society. The Humane society focuses on helping the dog and the people find the best fit. They really want to help the dogs. If you read further, I told about someone who worked there deciding a Sheppard with a termanal condition should be adopted by law enforcement, though law enforecment had already made it very clear it wasn't gonna happen. When I suggested the dog go to a family that could love it and make it comfortable, the answer was, people had wanted to addopt it, but it belonged with law enforcement. That, in my eyes, is a waco, putting their wants in front of the needs of the dog.

I feel strongly that pound could have more kennells and 'pets' be accepted before they are put through such a horrible death. There is no compasion for the animal in this theory that it makes owners more responsible if the Fayette pound wont take them. That is an idiotic idea. Someone tell me the difference in a 'stray' and someone's pet that is brought in and given up? The answer is not a ......thing.

I'm telling you they are rolling in the money they make off dog owners. They care nothing for the animals, if they did, your experience trying to addopt there would have been quite different.

They are all about tickets and making money. Strays don't make money...they have no owners to ticket. I'm supprised they pick up any at all. The poor things must run in front of the pound truck and give themselves up to get their attention!

I, too, hate to see animals abandoned on the road. We get plenty of them near my home, the most recent cast-off showing up just three weeks ago. I know some pet owners have unexpected circumstances that cause hardship, but I sure can't excuse anyone who purposely opens the car door or truck tailgate and just lets an animal out and then drives off. I've also noticed several severely underweight horses at different locations in Fayette County this winter. I'm guessing that with the high hay prices last summer, some owners just didn't feed their horses over the winter, figuring the animals would get by on dead grass until spring. It's shameful. In any case, I've always thought one of the more boneheaded moves by our current County Commission was to pass the ordinance limiting Fayette County residents to three pets. It still ticks me off. I know plenty of people with more than three pets, and we would gladly take in another animal, too, if we weren't already up to three (all of which were either strays or previous shelter animals).

I feel the same way. I think the law about 3 pets is not good either but there again, they can fine you if you have more...and that again, makes $$$, more than shows compassion. It's funny what you say about the horses, cause I've noticed them too. I guess people don't have any money maybe and do the best they can.

I feel really strongly about this "pet" versus "stray" deal. That pound is a ...JOKE! You can't tell me with all the money they take in they can't do better! And that bunch of self righteous hypocrites that work there. If I ran it the 1st thing I would do is can a few!

All of my dogs were rescued. They make the best pets and friends.

The shelter is full everytime I have gone over there, it looks like we need a larger facility.

Most people are not up to the challenge or responsibilty of pets or kids and they shouldn't be allowed to have either.

I guess we will have to just keep rescuing them, because most people don't seem to be very concerned.

how small it is. If you have ever been to dog court, as I have, you would quickly see, it is all about making money. They should use that money and have a shelter that is ..at least...as big as other counties, the one we have is a joke.

They also just about make it a crime to have a dog in Fayette. God knows, I think if you are caught with crack, you are treated better than the pet owners if their dogs get out. Mine are big and I've spent a lot on fences, tickets, through the years. Dogs get out cause they want out...end of story. They are not dumb animals.

But getting back to the 'pet' issue. I feel if they took in 'pets' this would help keep down what I see as a crime. Years ago, they put something in the paper about they had some new kind of ruberized floor in the pound for Fayette. I wanted to laugh if it hadn't been so pitafull....They make/take in a ton of money...dog court is big $$$s and I think it goes for saleries and raises more than the upkeep of the dogs as the size of our pound shows. I think the whole concept of our our pound is run is about ...making money...and very little compasion for the dogs. The human society off Holecome Bridge exit 75 downtown Atlanta is a great place to go. The cost must be staggering, but kennells are large and everyone goes there for puppies and adult dogs alike. It has a happy air to it. When I've been to ours, they don't even seem remotely interested in showing you the dogs.

Your experience with the animal shelter is obviously very limited. The people who work there are very much animal lovers and it is a very sad place to work when you love them. The shelter is all tax funded so if you want a larger facility, the taxpayers will have to pay for it and such a thing consistently falls below most peoples' idea of a good thing to spend our money on. Fayette County Humane Society (different entity from the Shelter) paid for the new flooring and for skylights in the cat room at the shelter. Fayette County Animal Shelter/Control is one of the best I've ever encountered - given what their purpose is.......

The Atlanta Humane Society (Howell Mill Road) is very different from the animal shelter because it is a humane society and not animal control. It is run on donations and grants. Animal Control cannot afford to take care of the dogs, cats, etc that it picks up AND bail out pet owners who changed their mind for whatever reason. The shelter is nearly always at capacity and what money there is goes to who is there. Now that it is spring, the situation will become critical with puppies and kittens. They only euthanize (humanely, by injection) when an animal is too sick or too aggressive to be a good pet or when they run out of room (the most difficult, I'm sure, to have to choose who dies just because it is crowded).

Fayette County has a Humane Society that will take owner pets, but they are all non-profit without a shelter and rely on foster homes, so often have to turn people down due simply to a lack of volunteers. It is a sad, never-won struggle in our society to take care of the unwanted animals. The very very best solution is spay/neuter!! There is financial assistance for this through FCHS AND it can be done as young as two months if the animal is healthy.

When people move and can't keep their pets because it is inconveneint or too expensive, how do you think the pet feels? Perfectly good, loving, happy home and suddenly everything and everyone is just gone......

"When people move and can't keep their pets because it is inconvenient or too expensive, how do you think the pet feels? Perfectly good, loving, happy home and suddenly everything and everyone is just gone......"

that is the reason I think we should take in 'pets'.

You are wrong about who gets to live and for what reason. A person who works there fixated on a Shepard that had some terminal thing wrong with it. This person was insistent that this dog should be in law enforcement. I called several that I knew and odley enough, they were familiar with the dog. They said the dog had washed out, that they had trained others and that it's medicine would cost way too much.
I relayed this info and said maybe they should let a family take the dog. The person was totaly po ed ...stated people ...had..wanted the dog, but it belonged in law enforcement. I came away with a really strange feeling about this person. I had already thought them odd, but really odd after that and made no further effort. Everyone can have their own opion, and I'm sure there may be some good ones there, but they have some very 'odd' ducks in my eyes, and again, $$$ is very much an issue with them. I don't like seeing these dogs abandoned...Coweta, and Fulton take pets, if no one adopts, they put them down. That would be more merciful than what I saw in the road the other day. We find money to educate Clayton kids, how bout some dog food and a warm place til addoption for some poor helpless animals.

I am right about the policies at the shelter. Your story sounds like an exception to the rules - someone must have fallen for that dog and tried to decide what they thought was best. I hope it had a happy ending.

"I don't like seeing these dogs abandoned...Coweta, and Fulton take pets, if no one adopts, they put them down. That would be more merciful than what I saw in the road the other day."

Are you aware that Coweta uses gas to euthanize? The horror stories of dogs and cats thrown together in a room and killed in a state of fear and aggression are alive and well. I don't know how Fulton does it. I do know that there was a huge push to change this in Coweta, and I hope it happened/is happening. There is nothing merciful about that. It is cheaper and faster and easier than holding an animal in your arms and doing lethal injection one at a time, as Fayette does.

When someone adopts a pet, it is taking on responsibility for that animal's every need for its' lifetime. Most people don't understand that or can't fathom the level of care and sacrifice that a pet requires. Of course, the animals all give back a thousand fold and it isn't a sacrifice at all when you love them. Even if that means taking the time and energy to find them another loving home if that is the only way. That is not the taxpayers' nor the animal shelters responsiblity.

Pet owners, whether they be those that love their pets like children () or those that have them as yard art, need to be educated as to what is required of them to be good 'parents'. Every single life need is dependant on the owners (food, shelter, love, etc) and should be taken as seriously as having a child. That in itself would solve a great deal of the issue of abandoned and injured or killed strays/orphans. NO ONE likes to see the abandoned and stray animals running around. SOMEONE caused it by dumping or not spay/neuter and 'putting out' the results.
Burns my ***. (if you couldn't tell )

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated - Mahatma Gandhi

you are talking about who best kills stray animals. I'm talking about saving these dogs from being put out on the road to starve, hit, or mauled by coyotes. The dog I saw had lost its will to live. I think our pound needs to take in 'pets'! I don't agree with giving away pets but the fact is..they are being abandoned on the road to die a pitiful death.

I am for the shelter taking them, giving them a chance to be adopted by someone the original pet owner didn't have access to. Then when all else fails, the dog would be put to death quickly, without having to starve or suffer. I'm in no way comparing Fayette and Coweta's way of putting them to death.
I am saying I would like something more responsible out of our pound. We pay high taxes....and if you have ever been to dog court...the are making a dodo pot full of money out of it. This could well be used to increase the so called 'shelter. We are a richer county than Coweta but it seems Coweta is more compassionate when it comes to animals. dodo does happen and these animals are dying an ugly death.

We are talking about the same thing - saving the dogs that are being put out. I just went off on a tangent about Fayette being a pretty darn good animal shelter, all things considered.

You are saying they should be taken to the pound. I am saying they should be the responsibility of the owner, not the taxpayer. The owner can have them euthanized at their vet if they can't find a home for them. Go to the animal shelter and tell me just WHERE they are going to put all the owner surrender dogs and cat AS WELL as the full to capacity strays they already have! Actually, go to the shelter and ask the staff or director for the numbers (I think they keep them posted on a bulletin board in the lobby) of animals euthanized. Then consider how many more would have even less of a chance of finding a home if the population at the shelter were substantially increased due to owner surrenders!

P.S. There was an article in the Saturday AJC about how there are many more than the normal number of animals without a home due to the mounting number foreclosures. Like I said, it is a battle that doesn't seem to have a winning strategy. The best way to start is to insist the owners are the responsible parties.

Now that makes real good sense! Someone is losing their home to foreclosure with no chance of buying another one and you suggest that they pay a vet to kill the animals, which is big bucks.
If the pound doesn't take them it is obvious what will happen. The dogs and cats will simply be turned loose somewhere to be poisoned, shot, run over or eaten by wolves.
Of course we couild do like many countries and just let all domesticated animals just run free everywhere undisturbed. In some cases. like India, non-domesticated animals--monkeys--run free. Those suckers will bite you good if you don't feed them.
Cats run free now, even in PTC, at night. Maybe it would work?
You seem to think that "owners" are the responsible party for everything! Why do we pay taxes then? Maybe I should build my own road in front of my house! Fight my own wars with the terrorists! Be my own city council! Be my own cop! Have my own hospital!
How many miles of Interstate would get built or repaired by individuals? Where would it end up going? Who decides?
Each neighborhood could have a school I suppose for primary, middle, and high school. No Universities---too big.
We could even have our own hanging tree in every yard!

Show me one wild wolf in Georgia. If you acquire an animal it should be yours for the rest of it's life, just like your kid. BTW there's undomesticated monkey's in a lot of countries, isn't that what undomesticated means? Geez, you just don't get it.

I yam what I yam....Popeye

Thank you for saying it so much better. People in foreclose are losing everything, not only do they not have the money to have a dog put down, their probably can't think straight. Even if they were, I doubt you would find a vet who would put down a healthy pet.

I do like your idea about my own personal hanging tree, I could get out all my frustrations~

WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE OWNERS WHO ARE NOT. You can't change that. That is like Nancy Regan years ago saying her idea for young people on drugs...her idea was 'just say no'. That is nice...but we had thousands of kids who said yes...they were the problem... not the ones that said 'no'. Reagan didn't address that. The ugly part is to clean up after, and accept, that some people make bad decisions. I don't think our iddy biddy pound for the few is anything to be proud of in a rich county, nor do I think the idea that we will just ...MAKE...pet owners be responsible is good either. Some people can't be MADE to do anything...the world is full of them..The idea is to deal with the tragedy of the dogs and not just pretend it isn't there are we are gonna ...MAKE... them responsible.

right. We can't make them responsible, but we can take every opportunity provided to educate people. AND we can all volunteer to help by supporting the places who DO take in owner surrenders (Fayette County Humane, Atlanta Humane). You would be absolutely amazed at how few people know that these are options. Many go to the shelter, are turned away, and let the animal out. No further research, no more bother.

I am doing my part to help by putting the ideal out there and hoping someone follows it and teaches it and also by volunteering. The owners who are not being responsible are also the ones who will continue to dump their pets, regardless of their optiosn, because they consider anything else to be a waste of their time. The only other option we, as good citizens, have is to give up.

I would love to see the shelter expanded and developed into something we can all be proud of. Again - that is something that isn't likely to happen, so we work with what we have. Education and non-profits.