Re: [PyrNet-L] Re: Leaving your dog outside...

[klbyrd@tampabay.rr.com]

We, too, are afraid that this will happen to our Pyr around here.  A few
weeks after we got her she became deathly ill and endured so much vomitting
that she became seriously dehydrated.  It ended up being an allergic reaction
to a new "treat" we had given her, we believe, but the entire way to the vet
ER, we were sure she had been poisoned.  I regularly have neighborhood kids I
don't know play with her at the park and then ask me where we live.  I always
lie.  I don't want her stolen or hurt.  A fourteen year old boy that says
repeatedly he wants his parents to get him a dog just like her and that he
has never seen another one may just decide he wants he regardless!  I am
probably being paranoid, but I feel like I'm being better safe than sorry.
Our neighbors had an elderly spaniel stolen out of their front yard Christmas
morning while they were opening presents!  Obviously someone needed a
Christmas gift fast and didn't seem to care that someone else would be LOSING
their dog Christmas morning.  The poor thing was elderly and in need of
regular medical care, which I'm sure it didn't recieve from soemoen who would
be willing to steal a dog out of someone's yard Christmas morning!  The kids
in yards adjacent to ours have had numerous lectures about how Margo gets
sick when she eats things she's to supposed to so to never feed her anything,
even things they would feed their own dogs!

Kris

clhenke@juno.com wrote:

> That would be my big fear too Dan.  I have known too many dogs who have
> been poisoned.  It is a horrible thing to do.  We have so much mailbox
> destruction here, and Monday our big "Eggs For Sale" sign up at the front
> was totally disassembled and one of the poles were ripped out of the
> ground, the other that they couldn't get out, was bent totally over.  I
> have no idea why all this destruction goes on, but I do not trust my dogs
> safety.  We have all the dogs that run in the country, and yet I fear for
> mine in their own yard.  That is why the carport got fenced and gated,
> and they are up by the side of the house when we are gone.  I still
> worry, but I know that they are away from people and not easily seen.
> The problem with the Pyrs., is they are such pretty dogs, they attract
> attention!  I know I would love to have a camera at our front.  We have
> guys that stop out in front and drink, and toss the cans, and take a
> leak.  My daughter woke up at the right time one night and blasted them
> with her Dad's quartz light, and we had the four dogs bark from the front
> door.  Boy did they scramble!  At any rate, I don't trust folks with our
> fuzzy white kids, and would not be comfortable leaving them out in the
> yard.
>
> Oh yeah, this is long but... We once had a drunk neighbor of ours get our
> horse out of our field (managed to get him through the fence wires??? ),
> ride him home bareback, falling off every so many feet ( another neighbor
> saw him, which is how we know ) and put him in his field.  We came home
> to a message on the machine that our horse was down in their field.  Well
> of course we couldn't figure out " how " as two of us are running down to
> get him, and two more are walking fence lines.  It was still a big
> mystery as to how " Chance got out ", until this other neighbor called to
> ask us why the fellow got the horse out and rode him home falling off
> him?  It is getting so you can't even trust your own neighbors!   Cindy.
>
> Cindy Henke
> clhenke@juno.com
> Ennis, Texas
>
> "All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained
> in the dog."  ~ Franz Kafka
>
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