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Re: Woman who never stopped updating her lost dog's chip reunites with him after 11y

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Post by tonyedgecombe »

akerl_ wrote: post #103
sillysaurusx wrote: post #51

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Yes. Believe it or not, that's fine for cats. "Everybody else" is by far the biggest risk. Not cars, not animals. It's always so frustrating when you've been doing something for 15 years, speak from experience, and then someone comes along and says "Well, that's bad!" Sure. Meanwhile, my cat comes home happy and healthy each night, unless "everybody else" decides to steal him in the guise of doing him a favor. Verifi…

It’s not fine for the cat. Or for the outdoors. There’s the whole parallel thread about that. But also keep your cat inside so they’re not roaming into my yard. It’s wild that outdoor cat “owners” are so willing to co-opt everybody else’s property as part of the cat’s habitat.

Cats have the right to roam in the UK. Keeping them locked indoors would be seen as cruel.

Re: Woman who never stopped updating her lost dog's chip reunites with him after 11y

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Post by kombookcha »

cloudbonsai wrote: post #70
zzzeek wrote: post #38

was the dog a stray for 11 years? or just owned by someone? I'm not following what actually happened

I listened to the podcast linked in the article, and my understanding of the timeline is: - The owner originally had two dogs. Both disappeared from her backyard one day. One dog returned home. The other vanished without a trace. - Eleven years later, a random girl found the missing dog outside. She befriended the dog and brought him home. She talked with her parents and contacted ACCT Philly, who in turn found the o…

Eleven years seems like a very long time to be a Philly street dog - kinda makes you wonder if it wasn't adopted by somebody in the interrim before ending up with the girl somehow.

Re: Woman who never stopped updating her lost dog's chip reunites with him after 11y

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Post by aucisson_masque »

>I had other animals in the house, as well, that were family pets, but Forty was my dog," she said. "I paid for him with my own money at 16 years old."

... I don't if it's an American thing but it's not something I'd say. The dog is an animal, it feels like it's compared to a car that she paid with HER OWN MONEY and then was stolen..

Tell me you loved him, it was the one you loved the most, stuffs like that but 'i paid for it with my own money'... She might as well has bought an iphone.

Re: Woman who never stopped updating her lost dog's chip reunites with him after 11y

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Post by aucisson_masque »

thelastgallon wrote: post #8

> her beloved pit bull, Forty-Cal, had been missing for 11 years. > He's super docile and friendly. Always has been. Are pit bulls known for being docile?

Some dogs races are known to attract people who have social and or mental issues.

Not all pit bulls are dangerous, in the right hands they are some of the nicest dogs I have seen, but yeah.

Personally I don't judge dogs anymore by their races but by their owner, I found it to be much more accurate.

And on a sidenote, this owner really doesn't inspire me much. When she say it was disheartening to loose this dog because she paid for it with her own money... That's the kind of things I hear from the low life with pits.

Re: Woman who never stopped updating her lost dog's chip reunites with him after 11y

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Post by aucisson_masque »

grantith wrote: post #65
hinkley wrote: post #42

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The dumbest thing I’ve done in the last ten years was stick my hands in the mouth of a “docile and friendly” pitty to extract a screaming puppy. Only afterward did I realized I almost destroyed my livelihood. My partner Google stalked the owner and discovered that he’d been force to surrender another pit bull two years earlier.

The lucky ones learn about the finger in the butt and hind leg wheel barrow maneuvers before they have to use them.

It doesn't work when a dog really doesn't want to let go. I think it would even make it bite stronger.

By the way, good luck sticking your finger in a dog but when he is fighting... I think you didn't try it much before giving advices.

Re: Woman who never stopped updating her lost dog's chip reunites with him after 11y

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Post by aucisson_masque »

piva00 wrote: post #110
macintux wrote: post #36

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I took a few pit mixes out of the local humane society last summer for "Doggy Day Out", basically an opportunity for dogs who need new homes to get exposure to the community and get away from the kennel for a few hours, and they were universally friendly, sweet dogs. There's some selection bias, obviously, but their reputation is definitely overblown.

They are very sweet dogs, until they're not. I was at a friend's place with some others from school, we were about 14-15 years old, his family had this seemingly sweet pitbull, always wanting to be pet, super playful but kind. That day it attacked one of our classmates, out of the blue, we were sitting on the backyard, the dog playing with some rope toys, brought it to us sitting, this guy picked up the toy to throw…

> dog playing with some rope toys, brought it to us sitting, this guy picked up

Probably a case of ressource guarding.

Many dogs are dangerous not because they are trained to but because people don't train them at all beside to sit and to lay down.

Dogs are certainly not psychopathe that attack out of the blue, they have motivations and reasonings. Most often a lack of education and socializing.

When I see people puting their dog in a cage at night and then puting them on a leash to walk it a few times per week, yeah, that's ticking bombs.

Re: Woman who never stopped updating her lost dog's chip reunites with him after 11y

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Post by sillysaurusx »

akerl_ wrote: post #106
sillysaurusx wrote: post #87

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Suppose someone were arguing that you should imprison your own child for their entire life, because every time they go outside, they kill ants. Would you still consider it selfish to disagree?

If your child routinely wandered into my yard and messed with the animals there, I would also have a problem with that, yes.

Except "the birds" aren't your animals. I don't know why there are so many low-quality comments tonight. It's as if people will address everything except my central point, which is: you routinely kill a bunch of stuff without batting an eye. Yet in this case, we're supposed to feel sorry for the birds, even though you don't feel sorry for flies or ants.

It's my legal right to let my animal roam. You can have a problem with it as much as you'd like. Just don't put your hands on my cat, and we're fine.

As far as I can tell, we seem to be living in an age where the entire world is a bit crazy on a certain topic. Slavery used to be legal, and normal. This to me is no different. You justify keeping them indoors for their entire lives on the basis that birds might die. That's asinine, especially from hypocrites that are happy to kill flies when it suits them. Cats don't harm you, and they don't harm your animals.

Re: Woman who never stopped updating her lost dog's chip reunites with him after 11y

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Post by sillysaurusx »

tonyedgecombe wrote: post #111
akerl_ wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s not fine for the cat. Or for the outdoors. There’s the whole parallel thread about that. But also keep your cat inside so they’re not roaming into my yard. It’s wild that outdoor cat “owners” are so willing to co-opt everybody else’s property as part of the cat’s habitat.

Cats have the right to roam in the UK. Keeping them locked indoors would be seen as cruel.

Excuse the language, but fucking thank you. I'm so tired of these people claiming that it's not cruel to keep a cat indoors, and that you're somehow irresponsible by letting them out. Not to mention that this wasn't even the topic of the thread! The topic was "vets should be required to verify microchips," and then along comes a crowd that goes "oooh you really shouldn't be doing that, shame shame shame on you" without even engaging with the question of ethics, or entertaining the possibility that it might be cruel.

It is absolutely fine for a cat to be outside. They come back. Their biggest threat is, again, people who think they're doing the cat a favor when they steal them.

Cheers to you for making my night. I don't care if everybody else in the thread is anti-cat. I'm just happy you spoke up. Thanks, and have a good week.

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