Helping Dogs

[Michigan Mike]

A friend sent me the email below about helping animals in shelters.
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This is pretty simple... The Animal Rescue Site is having trouble getting enough people to click on it daily so they can meet their quota of getting FREE FOOD donated every day to abused and neglected animals. It takes less than a minute (about 15 seconds) to go to their site and CLICK on the PURPLE BOX that reads 'Click Here to Give - It's Free'. This doesn’t cost you a thing.
Their corporate sponsors/advertisers use the number of daily visits to donate food to abandoned/neglected animals in exchange for advertising.
Here's the web site! Please pass it along to people you know.
http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/
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I tried it ... it's quick and easy. Click on the link above or the dog and cat photo below to go to the site.
Thanks everyone!
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[deacon]

And when you leave there go to Freekibble another free site that donates food to shelters

 

[Michigan Mike]

A most excellent idea!

 

[DOC BOLM]

I know the problems with food.a.s.p.c.a.came to my town this week and removed almost 300 dogs and cats from our shelter.Clarksdale Press Register > Front Iforgot check the man and his dog story on his bike

 

[Nashville Kat]

Dogs seldom mean to be offensive, while people often are. I think this is how they've become known as "man's best friend". A dog's loyalty come easily.

Still they eat, doo doo in the yard and bark a lot. This burdens and bothers people of it's own accord,
They sometimes bite. I was attacked and bitten a number of times by a German Shephard dog before I was kindergarten age.

and then beyond that they are sometimes used intentionally to bother people-

to drive them out of their homes or dwellings- I personally have been the victim of this and I'd testify to that before Holy God.

it's too bad that dogs are often more important than other people, but I guess some people don't see dogs as some kind of competitive threat- while apparently some other people are.

We always had a dog, and I like to pet them. But they are becoming more of a social issue in a more crowded world.

 

[Elmo]

Well I will keep dogs as long as I can take care of them. They are better than a lot of people that I know. They do not lie, cheat, use dope or get drunk and drive into someones child and kill the child. They do not borrow your stuff and never return it. A good dog will give his life to protect you.
Here is my 40 lb. 4 month old buddy named Tank.

 

[DOC BOLM]

Well said Elmo.

 

[Dave31]

it's too bad that dogs are often more important than other people, but I guess some people don't see dogs as some kind of competitive threat- while apparently some other people are.

The dogs I know are better then most people I have met, and I am more threaten by people then dogs.

 

[marts1]

This most certainly was amazing to read as I also was bite by a german shepherd at pretty much the same age. Nailed me right on the nose which required stitches. It was only my nose that got scarred...I still like all animals.

 

[Dave31]

Well I will keep dogs as long as I can take care of them. They are better than a lot of people that I know. They do not lie, cheat, use dope or get drunk and drive into someones child and kill the child. They do not borrow your stuff and never return it. A good dog will give his life to protect you.
Here is my 40 lb. 4 month old buddy named Tank.

Beautiful Dog Elmo, I volunteer for a local non-profit animal shelter (I wont post the site because they ask for donations) and help find homes for Terriers.

I volunteer as a foster home, and I am a Foster home inspector.

 

[deacon]

My daughter at the age of 11 got bit in the face by a big ole black lab. My reaction was to ask her what the **** she had done, She said nothing, I was just playing with her, but my friend stepped on her tail.

The owner's insurance adjuster called. She asked what I wanted to settle the claim. I told her to pay the ER bill to accept my apology for the hassle. She couldn't believe it since at the time there was a lot of bad PR about dog bites. I guess she expected us to sue for the tiny scar on my daughter's face. I love my daughter, but she was never going to be a super model. She learned a lesson from it all.

She still loves dogs, even though she married a man who doesn't. I don't trust a man who doesn'y love dogs.

 

[DOC BOLM]

Fair are they jack russel.One of the over the road drivers has one that was rescued in penn.9 year ago.The dog has over a million miles.He is getting old and when he passes i am going to get him another one.

 

[Elmo]

Beautiful Dog Elmo, I volunteer for a local non-profit animal shelter (I wont post the site because they ask for donations) and help find homes for Terriers.

I volunteer as a foster home, and I am a Foster home inspector.

You have my admiration for helping the dogs that cannot help themselves. Keep up the good work.

 

[Elmo]

My daughter at the age of 11 got bit in the face by a big ole black lab. My reaction was to ask her what the **** she had done, She said nothing, I was just playing with her, but my friend stepped on her tail.

The owner's insurance adjuster called. She asked what I wanted to settle the claim. I told her to pay the ER bill to accept my apology for the hassle. She couldn't believe it since at the time there was a lot of bad PR about dog bites. I guess she expected us to sue for the tiny scar on my daughter's face. I love my daughter, but she was never going to be a super model. She learned a lesson from it all.

She still loves dogs, even though she married a man who doesn't. I don't trust a man who doesn'y love dogs.

To use an outdated saying, Right on Deacon! By the way your posts on friction drives got me started on my first build. Thanks I think, I have gotten really enthused about these "things"

 

[Nashville Kat]

I was running down to my friends house. The German Shepherd lived nearby, but the attack wasn't there. He had been around the kids there. I saw him coming at me and I think I thought I'd pet him. But he just plain attacked me- like you see those that are sicked on rioters or protestors. (This was about 1958). he bit me repeatedly, in my thighs and my ass and on my back. I recall that he'd bite in, and not let go- shaking his head about. I had the scars foryears, and still twitch sometimes at the memory- lately I seem to have some kind of degrative nerve condition, I believe is still from this.

A about five years ago I moved back to rural Indiana. Right at that time, a little girl in Indianapolis had gotten her face literally eaten about half-way off from a pitbull attack.

so I wrote a letter to the paper about it, and about my own experiences being attacked and about how it had recently become an issue in Los Angeles where abandoned dogs had been packing up and attacking people.

Besides a couple of hostile replies in the paper, the response was a build-up of dogs around my house and yard- there were at one point (and I'd swear on a stack of Bibles)- 12 dogs surrounding my house

barking constantly, being prodded into barking all day and night, and most of them roamed around at will, using my yard as their toilet- I was tracking dog crap from next to my car on my own carpets- dogs that were largerly there just to bother away the friendly neighbor trans-gen graduate of the university twelve miles away.

In fact, just after my letter to the paper and my account of being mauled, the weekend cabin across the street replaced their beagle with a large Gernman Shepherd.

I will never hurt anyone, or risk hurting myself in defense of such activities- to the point of death. I just want ya to know, El Mo.

LIVE FREE OR DIE- and that includes freedom right here baby!

 

[deacon]

Please don't take this wrong, but I have never been dog bit, but I have been shot at. I have been conned by a hundred women, and I have been cheated by humans. I have been run off the road into a ditch or forced to slam on my brakes to avoid accidents a hundred times. I have been on the scene of the worst foul deeds imaginable perpetrated by so called human beings.

My point is that I would trust a strange dog, that wandered into my yard, a lot more than a strange human who did. The only dog I have ever owned or been associated with intimately, who bit a human, was my dad's dog. The dog was out of his kennel staked in the yard while my dad cleaned his kennel. Dad was also burning leaves. The dog somehow reverted to his natural instincts, so when a neighborhood kid ran by he snapped at him. God him right in the ass.

My dad took full responsibility for letting the dog be in a place where he could bite a kid. But my point is I have never owned a dog or even seen a dog that would walk up to a human and bite him without some outside force acting on them.

But here is some advice about your kids and grand kids, teach them to never run from a dog. It can change the perception of a dog from him being a cute playmate to one of him being prey. That is not often the case but it can happen.

These days a stray pit bull might well be trained to be mean. I leave them alone and they have always left me alone. I live in a neighborhood that has a couple of kids who think it is cool to walk a pit around the streets. For the most part they are better behaved than my dogs on a leash. Still with these wannabe thugs, one never knows.

Dogs are a lot safer than humans. it is so rare that a dog actually does a lot of damage to people that it makes the national news, but there are so many human tragedies that only a fraction make the news. That should tell us something.

 

[Elmo]

Please don't take this wrong, but I have never been dog bit, but I have been shot at. I have been conned by a hundred women, and I have been cheated by humans. I have been run off the road into a ditch or forced to slam on my brakes to avoid accidents a hundred times. I have been on the scene of the worst foul deeds imaginable perpetrated by so called human beings.

My point is that I would trust a strange dog, that wandered into my yard, a lot more than a strange human who did. The only dog I have ever owned or been associated with intimately, who bit a human, was my dad's dog. The dog was out of his kennel staked in the yard while my dad cleaned his kennel. Dad was also burning leaves. The dog somehow reverted to his natural instincts, so when a neighborhood kid ran by he snapped at him. God him right in the ass.

My dad took full responsibility for letting the dog be in a place where he could bite a kid. But my point is I have never owned a dog or even seen a dog that would walk up to a human and bite him without some outside force acting on them.

But here is some advice about your kids and grand kids, teach them to never run from a dog. It can change the perception of a dog from him being a cute playmate to one of him being prey. That is not often the case but it can happen.

These days a stray pit bull might well be trained to be mean. I leave them alone and they have always left me alone. I live in a neighborhood that has a couple of kids who think it is cool to walk a pit around the streets. For the most part they are better behaved than my dogs on a leash. Still with these wannabe thugs, one never knows.

Dogs are a lot safer than humans. it is so rare that a dog actually does a lot of damage to people that it makes the national news, but there are so many human tragedies that only a fraction make the news. That should tell us something.

You sure have your head on straight Deacon unlike some people who have theirs in the sand.

 

[deacon]

Fortunately none of them are here, but some folks have their heads deep in their anal cavity.

 

[marts1]

lolol...Reminds me of an incident years ago, I was walking in a park when two good sized dogs came running full tilt towards me. I could easily tell by the size of thier teeth and the growling that I was in big trouble. All I could think of was that I had no chance to survive this encounter so pretending to be not scared, I greeted the dogs with friendly gestures as they approached. I felt the first dogs mussle on my arm but he did not open his mouth. I later discovered a scrap yard near this park and that these two were guard dogs that had escaped that day. If I had been mauled that day, I'm sure I would still care about animals as I do now.

 

[Michigan Mike]

Well I will keep dogs as long as I can take care of them. They are better than a lot of people that I know. They do not lie, cheat, use dope or get drunk and drive into someones child and kill the child. They do not borrow your stuff and never return it. A good dog will give his life to protect you.
Here is my 40 lb. 4 month old buddy named Tank.

Elmo,
Tank looks like a dandy dog! Here's a pic of my two when they were 4 months old ... just got home from the shelter. And a couple later pics after they grew up ... will be 6 years old this summer. Great companions and fine company. Give Tank a pat on the head for me.
Mike