'Scared' puppies dumped at recycling center - Australian shepherd mix puppies

[Liberal_in_LA]

cute dogs. pic at link

'Scared' puppies dumped at recycling center

Monterey County humane society officers are searching for the person who abandoned six Australian shepherd mix puppies at an agricultural recycling center south of Watsonville.

Officers found four of the puppies cowering, cold, wet and hungry, under a tarp at the recycling center on Live Oak Road in an unincorporated part of the county, Sgt. Stacy Sanders of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said today.

The other two puppies - later dubbed Lily and Grover - were playing in brush on the side of the road when Sanders and her partner spotted them Wednesday while driving to another call.

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She and her partner collected evidence including tire and shoe tracks, scooped up the pups and took them to the animal shelter. The dogs were probably left at the center Wednesday morning, she said.

"They were very hungry, very thirsty," Sanders said. "It is rare to see six puppies that are so young without their mother."

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/17/BAS91M0J3D.DTL#ixzz1e0G8fKTF

[midnight]

1. Poor babies... I hope they get a good warm home..

[MADem]

2. Baaastids! nt

[appleannie1]

3. They are adorable.

[rocktivity]

4. No doubt the humane society will be flooded with inquiries

I suggest a raffle - they could charge five to ten dollars. Winners get the pups, losers all get a discount on the fees for adopting another animal.

:loveya:
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[hifiguy]

5. That is a wonderful idea!

Hope all the pups find great forever homes ASAP.

[Liberal_in_LA]

11. Puppies like that go for $500 at Shelter auction. A friend of mine competed for a

similar dog. many people will want them.

[Liberalynn]

6. Some people are just so cruel

Hope especially warm and loving people adopt them to make up for their ordeal.

I hope the police catch the asshats who abandoned them and throw the book at them.

[LiberalEsto]

7. This happens because idiots don't spay or neuter

their dogs.

I hope they catch the bastard and fine him hard, and show people in the area that it's FAR cheaper to get your pet neutered than it is to get caught dumping puppies.

Thank heaven these adorable pups were rescued. They'll probably get adopted, but that means six other puppies at the shelter won't.

[WillParkinson]

8. You're a better person than I...

I want a much harsher punishment than fining. Do we still stone people? I might be OK with that. (Almost :sarcasm: but not quite.)

[HopeHoops]

9. Well that's 3,000+ miles away from me so I can't take one, but those are valuable.

They're listed for $500+ each in our paper (when they're available). You just have to get used to a dog without a long tail.

They only get to be about 35-40 lbs so they're an excellent breed for small dwellings. One of the neighbors had an older one when we moved in. They took about a year off after he died and got a puppy. They're good herders. We've got a border collie and a sheltie. Same basic thing in principal but very different in reality. I simply can't imagine anyone dumping any kind of critter like that. We took in a deformed hermaphrodite baby wild bunny (not kidding) and he's a wonderful pet who loves to cuddle. He's 4 1/2 now. We call him "he" because I found the penis before the two vaginas (and yes, there are two, one on either side). The mother had tried to kill him by biting him and throwing him out of the nest. We tended to the wound and he recovered, but his nose is all squinched up and he sounds like he's got pneumonia when he breathes. He wouldn't have made it through the night if we hadn't taken him in.

Now since you referenced SFGate, I do have to ask something. Did the "no animals" bill actually pass? It seems rather disgusting to me, but I know it was proposed and I'm pretty sure it was SF. That might have had an influence on the matter, but it still wouldn't excuse it.

[Tansy_Gold]

10. My Aussie tips the scales at just under 80 pounds

And he's not overweight. He's just big, and at 5 1/2 he's still a puppy. Aussies tend never to grow up.

They're usually NOT good dogs for small houses as they are active dogs that need to work. Mine herds the other dogs all the time, tries to herd the people here too.

The abandoned puppies are described as mixes, and depending on what they're mixed with, they could be even more active and more in need of a home that will gie them plenty of activities. Otherwise they can be delightfully and playfully destructive as hell.

[HopeHoops]

13. Our border collie is similar. She was 77 lbs at one point (got her back to 68).

She's never had any real fat, still had the greyhound shape, but anything over 50 is HUGE for a female border collie. Her parents were both large. The main problem is we didn't have much snow for a couple of years. That's what keeps her in shape. They're made for that.

The sheltie is exactly the opposite. She was the runt of the litter and I think (at 3 1/2) she's hit her maximum weight - 22 lbs. That's tiny. As the vet's assistant said, "all of the shelties we get in here are little barrels". She's trim, fit, and can run like the wind. There were eight pups and I picked her for one reason. I sat down in their pen and put my legs out straight. The other seven proceeded to untie my shoelaces. This one came over to me for a cuddle. Easy decision. I got her for my wife's birthday. She's her dog and they totally bonded.

I've had two dogs in my life - both lived to 16. One was a complete mutt. The other was what I called a "cockapeagle". The mother was a cockapoo and we think the father must have been a beagle. The two we have now are the first purebred dogs I've ever had in the house. They do have their quirks, but I also don't worry about intruders. :evilgrin:

[Liberal_in_LA]

12. I'm not sure if the bill passed. I seriously doubt it. I don't live in SF

[HopeHoops]

14. I was pretty sure it was somewhere in CA. Not sure. Just one of those things you think of.

It might have been a "no smoking in apartments" bill. There's so much shit going on it is hard to keep track of it all.

[michreject]

15. Wish they had this punishment here

But it is such a hard case to prove," Sanders said. The puppy-dumper could face up to a year in jail and a $20,000 fine, she said.




Ithink it's only a 500.00 fine and 92 days in jail.

[rocktivity]

16. Here's a pic of one of the little darlings

:headbang:
rocktivity

[flvegan]

17. Well, two ways to look at this...

1. Thankfully, the "people" that left them there did so possibly because they knew the place was frequented and someone would find the pups and do something to help them (which happened).

2. Unfortunately, some people are too stupid and selfish for words and left animals in a place where they stood a chance of starving to death/being predated/etc and only by the grace of the gods were saved from such a fate. If they were hit by a bus, I might snicker for just a second at the irony.

I'm going with the first one. Helps me sleep at night.