I just blasted my neighbor.

[RebelOne]

I love animals and am against animal cruelty in any form. Well, right now the temperature is 32 degrees here in No. Georgia. My neighbor has had her dog tied outside all day. Finally, I could stand it no longer and told her that if I was freezing outside, then her poor dog was freezing. My dog is inside in a comfortable warm house and it breaks my heart that other animals are suffering in the cold. I had to rant about this.

[Dookus]

1. if the dog's still left out there

call your local animal control office.

geez, some people are too dumb to own pets.

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. What kind of dog?

Some dogs - and other animals - like the cold just fine.

But not all dogs and animals, of course, so good for you for thinking of animal's welfare and sticking up for 'em. I hate seeing cruelty to animals. And children.

[RebelOne]

4. He's a little Benji-type dog.

I know that if I was cold with an extreme-weather parka on, than that doggie was cold. She finally took him inside and will probably never speak to me again, but I really don't care.

[WillParkinson]

3. Good on you!

Thank you for caring.

[RebelOne]

5. Thank you also.

I love all animals and hate to see any kind of suffering. And I see that you adopt shelter animals. So good on you, too!!

[specimenfred1984]

6. It's 20 and Windy Here and My Neighbor Did the Same Thing

she left her 2 dogs out. At 12:30, I gave her 30 minutes to get home before I called the Humane Society. Fortunately, she came home.

In my county, the Animal Shelter kills animals as fast as possible so calling the "shelter" is a terrible idea.

I felt like taking my neighbor outside without a shirt on and letting them sit out there for an hour. It's pure cruelty!

[RebelOne]

7. I know. It breaks my heart to see animals treated like that.

Some dumb people don't realize that their pets feel the cold just as humans do. Since your county has a kill shelter, what I would have done would be to have taken the dogs into my house until the neighbor came home and then let her worry about what happened to them.

[RC]

8. 32 Cold?

It's 33 here now and if feels down right balmy.

[RebelOne]

9. Well, this is Georgia, the deep South..

And 32 degrees to is cold to us. Though this morning the temperature was in the 20s and we got a light dusting of snow. But the sun is now out and it's still 32 degrees. But we do get single digit temps now and then.

[salinen]

10. Two days ago I was in an old barn

and there was an old desk and when I pulled out the top right drawer, there sleeping in a nice straw bed, was a hibernating skunk. At first I stepped back for obvious reasons, but I could not bear to leave without returning the roof to it's house. So I slowly stepped back and closed the drawer.

[baldguy]

11. If I let her, my dog would stay out all day.

Its not going to get above 5 degrees today. The neighbors cruelty isn't that the dog is left out in the cold - because 32 isn't that cold. The reason its cruel is because she ignores the dog all day. Dogs are social animals, just like we are.

[chaska]

12. I had a neighbor that neglected and mistreated her dog.

Left it outside with no food, water or shelter. Didn't feed it everyday. Watered it only when it was fed. One night they left it outside (as always) in the rain with the temperature below forty degrees. The combination of wet and cold is dangerous, as I'm sure we all know. In the morning I called animal control. They came out and gave her a warning, told her to get a doghouse, keep water out for the dog at all times, etc., as they do.

***The moral of the story: She got rid of the dog. Probably gave it away, but regardless, at least the dog didn't suffer because of an irresponsible owner after that.

Animal Control is good. And calling them doesn't mean the animal will be killed. Don't tolerate animal cruelty.

[Ellen Forradalom]

13. My puppy is curled up next to me right now

on the nice warm bed. Your neighbor doesn't know the joy she's missing.

[Lady Freedom]

14. This reminds me of my moms dog Bear...

People thought we were the meanest people on the block for letting him stay out all the time during the winter. But he gave us no choice int the matter. He would go crazy to get out of the house when the temp dropped below 40! And we would have to drag him fighting all the way back into the house. so we got him a igloo dog house that was made for below 0 temps and got him a electric water dish to keep his water from freezing and let him enjoy himself! The colder it got the happier he was!
He was a husky, wolf mix. And he loved to a rope harness put on him so he could drag things through the snow, including us! We miss him dearly! He died of cancer this pass summer.

[Liberal Christian]

15. Boz and winter

Boz, my Norwegian Elkhound/Siberian Husky mix (died a couple of years ago), loved the cold. In the winter, if I didn't let him outside, he would lie down pressed against the patio door to be closer to the cold. He loved to lie out in the snow for hours at a time.

When the arthritis got bad, he wanted to be in side, but most of his life he loved to be out in the cold.

Having said that, you have to know when it's time to bring them in. A friend who loved his hunting dogs and worked them all the time, definitely not ignoring them, misjudged the cold one night. He left the dogs out in their doghouses, and one of them died. He was absolutely heartbroken and guiltridden. I couldn't fault him. He truly gave those dogs wonderful care.

(edited for clarity)

[Rhiannon12866]

16. Good for you!

I have a friend who recently did the same thing. In New York State, where I am, they recently passed a law requiring dogs kept outside to have "adequate shelter." I called the governor to urge him to sign it when it was waiting on his desk. As far as I'm concerned, it is just too damn cold now outside to leave any animal outside, at least where am. The corner of my computer screen now says thirteen below.

Isn't there a local ASPCA or Humane Society or Animal Control Services in your area that you can consult, or are you afraid of starting a feud with your neighbor? What did he/she say? I would offer to let the poor thing spend the night in your house. What's wrong with some people? Why do they even have a dog? I have two, bith rescue, and they like to spend the night on my bed.:-)

[Padraig18]

17. Tony cited 2 people for animal neglect this week.

It's been frigid here in IL, and he loves animals just like I do. He cited 2 people for tying their dogs out w/o shelter of any kind. I wish you had called the police on your neighbor.

[Rhiannon12866]

18. Here in Upstate NY, there was an infamous case, a few years ago

of a dog that was tied outside and froze to death. It was a fairly rare sort of dog, and the story made the headlines and the newscasts for weeks. It also made it to the courts, but the people involved didn't get as stiff a sentence as they deserved. The laws are stricter now, here in New York, and, these days, they would definitely be placed behind bars.

[RebelOne]

20. I read about that case and it broke my heart.

The owners should have had the book thrown at them.

[Dogmudgeon]

19. Imagine how homeless people feel.

Unfortunately, they don't purr or bark.

--bkl
But Shrub still wants to "put them down".