Thanks for dumping your hound dog!

[kpete]

WED AUG 06, 2014 AT 06:25 PM PDT
Thanks for dumping your hound dog!
by on the cuspFollow

Whoever you are, I must thank you from the bottom of my heart for leaving your overweight young Blue Tick Coon Hound running down the highway after you threw her out.

Because you were so heartless, she is now mine forever! Apparently, you kept her caged a lot, and she delivered a litter for you, if not more than that, but at least she had no more injury from dumping that a skinned hip, most likely from when you threw her out of the truck. No broken bones, lucky for her! Merely road rash! Lol!

The hair is growing back! Not that you care, but that is just to inform you of her status. As cold bloodedly as I can report to you.

The kindly people that grabbed her took her to the local vet, who has me on her hound rescue list.
I left my law office, drove to the clinic to see her, and said I wanted what you, sir or madam, had no further care or use for.

The vet said she was 3 years old, more or less. What, exactly, did you DO with her for that time? Last night, she panted, was subdued, picked out the place in my yard that most resembled a pen. Did you ever allow this hound some room to run? Today, she greeted my return from work with a song as beautiful as any Mozart French Horn sonata.

Did the fact that when she came to you and leaned hard on your shins, tilting her beautiful hound face upwards to make eye contact with you, make you angry?

Well, I happen to thrive on the love a hound gives me.

Did you give her a name? Bitch in the cage?

She is now and forever Blue Belle.

And mine.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/08/06/1319703/-Thanks-for-dumping-your-hound-dog

[gwheezie]

1. I just don't understand throwing a dog away

A hound dog will break your heart. One year I had 11 stray hounds show up at my place. We have a stray hound problem here. Animal control does a hound pick up after hunting season here when the collars are removed and the dogs are left to fend for themselves. It's a bad death to starve to death in the woods.
Every hound I've rescued has been sweet and happy once they figure out how to be a pet. Annie is sitting next to me on the couch. She came out if the woods 2 years ago. A bag of bones with a bad abscess on her leg and covered in ticks. She never has to hunt again. She never has to be cold or hungry or dehydrated again.
Sometimes I like my dogs more than most people I know.

[BrotherIvan]

10. That's just awful

Who thinks a domesticated animal can just fend for itself? Who trains a dog to hunt and just abandons it?

I'm with you. The older I get, I trust animals far more than people.

[brewens]

2. Is it possible that was an accident? I could see someone being careless and getting miles down the

road not realizing they lost their dog out of the back of the truck somehow.

[LeftyMom]

3. No.

Well I suppose it's possible somebody was driving along with an overbred and undersocialized dog with no tags and no chip, untied in the bed of a truck, and failed to notice the dog falling out, but if so that person is a neglectful dipshit and the dog is lucky to have escaped.

[gwheezie]

12. They're never neutered

If it's a pet it would probably be neutered. I had one hard case hound I named jimmy. He showed up in my barn during the winter. I was sure he was dying. He slept in the hay bales. He had no idea about being with people never mind coming on a house. Every night I'd cover him from snout to tail with an old horse blanket.
He finally figured out he was my dog when one day the hunters were out and he panicked when he heard gunfire and took off. I took off after him and when I found him it clicked in his head that I wanted him. It took months to get him in the house. But he was my boy and I was his mommy. I sure miss him I had him about 5 years but the early damage from being run too hard as a puppy made his arthritis so bad I put him down

[mopinko]

4. some people just dont understand dogs.

my sister adopted a coon dog that was prolly a failed hunter. she loves him, but is trying to figure out how to quiet down his braying. hello. take him hunting. or, tell the neighbors they will just have to deal.
working dogs need to do their job. lots of dogs are happy with the job of couch warming. but most dogs were bred to do a JOB.

[DeSwiss]

5. K&R!

- Fred says Hi Blue Belle!!!

[rhett o rick]

6. Thanks for sharing. Not that long ago I rescued a cat, about 3 years old, that was trying to

survive in my neighborhood. She had a collar that was too tight, she must have out grown it, but no identification. My wife said no more cats but now Bindi is her favorite. Last night she brought me a dead young rat. She was so proud, but I have mixed emotions. Part of me wants to think there are no rats around and the other part is glad she is helping keep them out.

[kag]

9. i know how you feel, rhett...

Our youngest cat, we named "Quantum" because she appears to go between two points without visiting the points in between , was a rescue. She is beautiful, and my favorite of all three of our cats. She now brings us mice, chipmunks, and even baby rabbits sometimes. I never know whether to punish or praise her, but she's so proud of herself it's difficult to come down too hard on her. Sometimes I can get whatever it is away from her without her killing it. Best of all worlds.

But she will always be my favorite.

[U4ikLefty]

7. She's no longer cryin' all the time

I know laaaaame!!!!

[oldandhappy]

8. You are a hero kpete!

Blue Belle and I both think you are wonderful. I am glad the two of you are now forever together.

[kpete]

13. Not me oldandhappy

on the cusp
http://www.dailykos.com/user/on%20the%20cusp

My rescue Roo and I have a story too...
peace,
kp

[shenmue]

11. Arf