So, let’s give a little context here. I live in a pretty crowded trailer park, and I have my fair share of neighbors who don’t take care of their animals. However, a few years ago it got pretty sufficiently bad enough with one of them where I had to do something.
It started with the dog constantly running out of their house and on to the main highway, which heavily concerned me because a few weeks prior another dog had gotten out on that same highway and was hit so badly he needed his leg amputated. The dog that kept getting out was also highly aggressive towards the local cat population, causing some pretty gnarly injuries. This dog also wasn’t neutered which caused him to be a lot more territorial.
The thing that drove me to my breaking point was when I witnessed the owner of the dog kicking him down his front porch steps. I made a plan that the next time the dog got out, I’d grab him. So that’s exactly what I did. That same day a guy who did maintenance for the trailer park and also fostered animals came to my house to fix the sink, and I ended up giving the dog to him.
It’s years later and the dog is neutered, well fed, and happy. I get updates fairly often. The part I feel severely guilty about is the fact that he came from a family home, and the kids were absolutely devastated handing out flyers to find their missing dog. It eats me up inside knowing that they probably think their dog is dead, I went through a similar thing as a child and it still hurts me. I wish there was a way I could at least let it be known that he’s safe.