PO Box 662
Lakeport, CA 95453 (707) 349-2624
Last Updated: 07/03/2009 03:43 PM
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Let’s take our dog to the COUNTRY!!!
So it can starve naturally.

This
is Skelly. She was found by a park in the outskirts of Lakeport. There
were 2 others with her that have not been caught, yet. There is no way
of knowing how long Skelly and her siblings have been out in this wild
remote, dry, area.
What is known is that Skelly and her siblings were abandoned in the
wild to fend for themselves. Skelly is now 5 months old, and she weighs
13.3 pounds. She should weigh 40 pounds. She is dehydrated, severely
emaciated, probably anemic and has mange. The person who abandoned her
and her siblings apparently did not want to take the dogs to Animal
Care and Control. Laziness or stupidity? Laboring
under serious misapprehensions, the perpetrator of this crime decided
that it was better to let the dogs starve slowly, over time, rather
than be cared for, fed, have air conditioning and heat, and WATER.
People dump their dogs in public places because they do not want Animal
Control to euthanize their pets. Certainly, Animal Control is forced to
euthanize pets on a regular basis. But the person responsible for the
killing is the person who dumped their pet. For every animal in our
shelter there is someone, somewhere who is directly responsible for
that animals being there. The person responsible is the owner that did
not socialize their pet, did not feed them properly, care for them, or
allowed breeding. They did not take them out to meet other people or
dogs, train them, or housetrain them. Then, when these owners chose to
dump their dogs, they dump them in public places rather than let a
professional organization handle the problem they created.
There have been
many abandoned pets in remote areas recently, and Lake County Animal
Services is one local organization that tries to work with them. Lake
County Animal Services is small, under funded, owes the vet a ton of
money, and can not take in the numbers of dogs that require care. Three
dogs recently abandoned in the wild are currently the Lake County
Animal Services program. The mom and her two older pups were dumped in
the middle of no where, and they are under-socialized, and fearful of
men. It took a caring neighbor hours to coax the dogs into her care. It
will take months to undo the damage that these dogs’ owners did to
them. It will also take months for Skelly to recover. There is a
hunter’s dog with a remote training collar still loose out there. He is
so shy and scared he won’t go near anybody. He is also starving slowly.
Animal Control set a trap for another pair of dumped scared dogs, but
someone stole the trap. Another neighbor took in a starving limping dog
who had been wandering the park for months prior. Finally he got weak
enough to capture. If you have not cared for your dog properly and it
is fearful, how can you expect some one to even catch your abandoned
pet?
If you must dump your dog, take it to an agency. Your pet will be safe
there. She will not be in pain, starving, dehydrated. Lake County
Animal Care and Control only euthanizes animals when our citizens force
them to.
Karen Schaver, Director
www.lakecountyanimalservices.org
707-349-2624
Contact Us: Lake County Animal Services, PO Box 662, Lakeport, CA 95453 707-349-2624
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