How do people DO this?

[Southpaw]

So I went to the dog park a couple hours ago and there were only 3 people and their dogs. Someone was leashing up a dog and walking him over to the water dishes and as I got closer they asked me if I knew whose dog it was. Apparently when they got there, the dog was just laying in the grass with a ball, barking and howling, and no owner was there. The dog had a collar with proof of his rabies vaccine and he had a city license, but he had no ID tag. They ended up calling either the police or animal control, I'm not sure which, and someone came out to get the dog.

So it sounds like someone just dumped their dog at the park. I don't understand how someone could do that? I suppose at least they left him in a fenced in area where dog people are all the time. How ridiculous and sad though.

 

[sammgirl]

Have you ever read that childrens' book "Strider" by Beverly Cleary? It starts out that same exact way, where someone just basically put their dog in a down stay and left it there.

I really hope that this dog is claimed by someone and has a great home. How awful to be abandoned like that. I just don't get it.

 

[grab01]

If he had a rabies tag and license, it won't be hard for the shelter to find the owner.

 

[Southpaw]

Would they get fined for that sort of thing? I was thinking he may even be microchipped... but then I thought, I wouldn't really want him to be returned to someone who'd just leave him like that.

I suppose there's the chance that he really could have just been a lost dog that hopped the fence into the park... but something about that seems bizarre too.

 

[dmkaiser]

they will most likely get a fine

 

[wishbone]

That probably not like a dump and he got a responsible owner and he's just lost. Wishing a him reunion soon with is owner.

 

[JustaLilBitaLuck]

Well, as much as I hate people that dump their dogs (there are MUCH better, safer alternatives), as far as dumping goes, a dog park is a pretty good place. Fenced in, can't get hit by a car, and filled with dog lovers.

Poor guy. I hope they find him a good home.

 

[AgilityPup]

Am I the only one who was struck to near tears by the tennis ball? It saddens me because it makes me think they threw the ball and then left. Poor dog. I can't imagine leaving my dogs somewhere like that. But I guess a dog park is a safer place to do it - but come on, why not surrender to a shelter?

 

[bubbatd]

Maybe the dog was wandering and a stranger put it there . Hope so !!!

 

[suthrnladi]

:yikes:How awful! that poor dog, can you imagine, go fetch the ball, turn around and mom or dad is gone? I am glad they left him somewhere relatively safe. They could have done what so many do out here where I live. Because I live outside the city (in the country basically) People dump so many dogs and cats on our dirt road or at the county dump down the road. I usually feed them, clean them up and try to find them a home, sometimes I've had to send to the pound (sick or aggresive). Most of the cats have just stayed ( I spay or neuter if they stay). I've even put out a live trap for one very shy female so I could get her spayed, the vet had to use a stick to make her move to one corner of the trap and give her the shot of sedative through the wire :rofl1:. She was supposed to have eaten a sedative pill in the food we used in the trap, but apparently either she didn't or it didn't work.
I've had so many cats and dogs spayed or neutered, my husband used to say, if they just walked through the yard (before the fence went up) I would grab them, take them to the vet and have them fixed. LOL.

 

[Laurelin]

Grammy might have an idea there.

We have about 3 dogs dumped at the agility field every year. Same thing, I suppose- fenced in, dog lovers every day.... We had the most stunning shepherd dumped there a while back. We tried finding his owners but no luck so he was eventually adopted. He was amazing, young and beautiful and well trained too. It saddened me.

 

[JudithMary]

Maybe as another poster said he was wandering and someone put him in the dog park to be safe. Hope so anyway.

 

[Xandra]

Lol my first thought upon finding a dog in a dog park with no owner, with a collar and tags would NOT be that it was dumped. I would guess the owner accidently left the door ajar and it ran to its favorite place. Or like Grammy said, a nice non-dog person might've seen it and thought that it escaped from the park or something.

Hope he's been reclaimed.

 

[Amber]

That poor dog. If people don't want their dogs, the least they could do would be to surrender them to a shelter. Not abandon them. Grr.

 

[Romy]

Maybe the dog was wandering and a stranger put it there . Hope so !!!

Yes! Please oh please I hope someone had him scanned for a chip or checked up on the address his license was registered to. I would be destroyed if one of my dogs was lost and someone put him in a dog park, only to have everyone assume that he had been abandoned and then find him a new home. Especially when it is really easy to track down an address from a tag.

Why do people always assume the worst? If he really was a dump, then they'll say so when you call them. It's better to check first. I can't imagine someone dumping him and leaving his ID on.

Who knows, maybe he was stolen and dumped there by an angry neighbor, and his family is distraught trying to find him? Maybe he was with a dog sitter when he was taken and they don't even know he is missing yet? So many possibilities and you don't know what the situation is until you call and check it out.

 

[bubbatd]

Surrendering a dog here costs plenty !!! It's s sad , but I understand the reasoning .

 

[dogsarebetter]

One time when I went to the dog park there was a German Shepard there that appeared to have no owner. About an hour later the owner did come back to the dog park. Someone asked him where he was, well....
he went to go see a movie and dropped the dog off to have some fun.

 

[Fran101]

I hope its a misunderstanding and that this dog has loving owners.
but, ive seen the dog park ditch happen multiple times and its heartbreaking

 

[YodelDogs]

If someone wanted to dump a dog they would remove the collar and tags first. I suspect it was a lost dog that someone found but either didn't know what to do with it or didn't have time to do anything with it so they put it in a place where other dog people would find it.

 

[SmexyPibble]

I've been to a dog park once or twice with a dumped dog. We stay there until someone takes him home, since we usually can't. I just don't understand people. *shakes head*