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Post by Lexica on Jan 22, 2017 21:09:40 GMT
On the cat thread, someone mentioning a cat actually having two homes that they live between. It reminded me of this YouTube that I watched last week. It is of an odd television show in Japan where I guess you can write to them and tell your dog's situation and they will send people out with a camera to follow your dog around for the day to let you know where it goes when you are at work. The show is in Japanese and the YouTube channel owner translates them, putting in English subtitles. First, I found the whole premise pretty funny and their discussion of it prior to going out to spy on these dogs. Next,I was really impressed to see how kind everyone was to the dogs in these two stories while out on their daily meanderings. And finally, I was really bothered by the circumstances that Hanabi, the second dog, was left with every day. Instead of his escape being funny to me, I was freaked out by his story and fear that if the owner doesn't make some serious changes, she is going to return from work to a scene she does not want to see. Sacchan. Where does he go all day?Hanabi, the escape artist |
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Post by AnotherPea on Jan 22, 2017 21:42:51 GMT
I think the premise of pets having two homes to be cute, but not in actuality. Someone needs to be responsible for the care of the pet and any damage it may cause.
Pets are domesticated animals. I can't stand free-roaming pets, even though I'm a huge animal lover. If you want a pet, keep it on your property. Don't let it come over to my house to poop, scratch window screens, dig holes, etc. Don't let it wander and end up dead on the side of the road.
I worked on an island when I was a teen. The island actually had an ordinance stating that pets could not be shared between addresses. Stray cats became so overpopulated that it was causing serious problems. People would put out food, thinking they were being kind, but the kindness was causing the population to soar. If a pet did not have a license, owners would be fined. People would claim they weren't the owners to avoid fines. So the county decided that if you feed a stray twice in a three day period, and no one else laid claim, you were the legal owner (pet sitting and such excluded, of course). Neighbors tried to bypass this by taking turns feeding/sharing the cats. So the town declared that only one household could be the owners of a pet. After a few years of enforcing this with fines, the population became manageable.
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Post by padresfan619 on Jan 22, 2017 21:52:10 GMT
My cat used to roam between our house and the neighbors house 2 doors down. The owner of the house loved that she killed mice in his backyard. Eventually we built our cat a catio and now she hangs out outside in an enclosed space. We invite our neighbor to watch her when we go out of town. It was clear we were the owners and she came home every night, but she was also one of those cats who hates being cooped up all day.
She's ad at me right now because it has been raining hard almost all week so the window to her catio has been closed.
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Post by Lexica on Jan 22, 2017 22:00:36 GMT
I think the premise of pets having two homes to be cute, but not in actuality. Someone needs to be responsible for the care of the pet and any damage it may cause. Pets are domesticated animals. I can't stand free-roaming pets, even though I'm a huge animal lover. If you want a pet, keep it on your property. Don't let it come over to my house to poop, scratch window screens, dig holes, etc. Don't let it wander and end up dead on the side of the road. I worked on an island when I was a teen. The island actually had an ordinance stating that pets could not be shared between addresses. Stray cats became so overpopulated that it was causing serious problems. People would put out food, thinking they were being kind, but the kindness was causing the population to soar. If a pet did not have a license, owners would be fined. People would claim they weren't the owners to avoid fines. So the county decided that if you feed a stray twice in a three day period, and no one else laid claim, you were the legal owner (pet sitting and such excluded, of course). Neighbors tried to bypass this by taking turns feeding/sharing the cats. So the town declared that only one household could be the owners of a pet. After a few years of enforcing this with fines, the population became manageable. That is interesting. I would think it would be really difficult to establish an owner of an animal that wandered an island like that. I have a problem with pets running lose too. It is knowing full well that their lives will be cut short by either disease, an accident, or a result of someone being angry about their property being damaged and they decide to put out traps or poison to stop the animal from doing more damage. I am a huge animal lover and I am also a property owner and can understand - not agree with mind you - but understand someone getting upset enough to take action against a wandering animal doing costly damage to their belongings. Especially if the person receiving the damage has repeatedly asked the owner to stop letting the animal lose, and nothing is done about it. I can't say I blame them for wanting to take action themselves. But in these videos, it appears that a dog wandering about is not only accepted, but encouraged and the people were all so nice to the dogs. I couldn't live like that with my pets, but I can't speak for others. I was extremely bothered by the second video. That dog is going to end up hanging itself and the blame sits squarely on the shoulders of the owner. You just can't tie a dog up like that for hours and hours at a time. She shouldn't have a dog at all, in my opinion. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2017 22:13:44 GMT
Our dog visits the neighbor ( widower, lives alone) everyday. The neighbor enjoys it. He feeds her a treat. She provides him some pet therapy. They spend about 20 minutes together.
We would put an end to it but it would make both of them sad.
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Post by gmcwife1 on Jan 22, 2017 22:29:07 GMT
My sister's neighborhood has a couple of dogs that wander between the houses.
I couldn't do that, I'm to worried that my dog would get hit by a car or stolen!
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Post by Grom Pea on Jan 22, 2017 22:36:44 GMT
Our neighbor one street over has a kitty that likes to come visit, but only once in a while. My 4 year old thinks Sam is our kitty and laments that he lost his kitty when Sam goes home. Funny thing is we have a cat, but he's not playful with kids, so he doesn't rate. Today I was holding our cat and my son said he wanted Pepe, our cat that died when ds was under age 2, then he said he wanted Sam. No love for Gogh, our current kitty. I'll admit the would you steal someone's pet thread made me want to go offer the neighbor to buy Sam to keep for ourselves :-)
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