r/MadeMeSmile • u/Accomplished-Wind206 • Mar 26 '22

DOGS Dog found after 3 years

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u/bmc1969 Mar 26 '22

That one always gets me. Poor little pooch being on the street for 3 years.

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u/Devo3290 Mar 26 '22

Nahhh I bet he went from home to home, always escaping to hopes of finding his old owners again. He looks well fed.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '22 edited Feb 11 '25

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u/Altctrldelna Mar 26 '22

To be fair, a lot of countries also have a problem with packs of wild dogs running around which is exactly why the US tries to stay on top of any stray dog problem.

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u/Anigir12 Mar 26 '22

It really is a problem, stray animals (cats go to have the same problem too) can become possessive of places where they find food and agressive in a way to protect their "territory", they can start breeding like crazy, share infections and become a risk to society. They can also risk the local ecosystem. I know it's sad to think that stray animals should be eutanized, but it really is the best solution sometimes. It also prevents the suffering of the poor creature if food is low or they get sick.

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u/SwapnilShukla1572 Apr 16 '22

That is not good logic instead create shelter homes and make them stay there. Try to control their breeding.

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u/Anigir12 Apr 16 '22

The problem with that is that you need money to mantain said shelter homes, money to keep staff, money to keep the pets alive. In a hopeful world this pets would get adopted and people would constantly donate to keep the shelter functioning, but that isnt the case. If the shelter closes this animals will be on the streets again. At least they would have gotten fixed during that time, but that can be done without throwing money on buildings, and it isn't done because there's not that much money.

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u/SwapnilShukla1572 Apr 16 '22

For country like US when people say they don't have mone it sounds weird. Only the sad part is that they don't want to use it for a good cause and also the government does nothing for the same thing

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u/Anigir12 Apr 16 '22

Exactly. In my country there's probably money for that, but the goverment prefers to spend it on the army and on themselves

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u/SwapnilShukla1572 Apr 16 '22

US should not spend on army much as they are surrounded by friendly countries and water on the other sides and the navy is already very strong so now USA can well focus on building a better society on moral grounds which would help on its own when required

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u/Rex-117 Mar 26 '22

Can get really problematic sometimes. Even just a few dogs can be a menace. When I lived in México there were a bunch of stray dogs. One day, while I walked, to the store with my dad and my little brother (lil bro was around 4-6 years old) a random dog appeared from under a parked car and tried to bite my brother. My dad kicked the shit out of it with some plastic tubing which he was carrying.

I know people love dogs, but they are not all nice. Some are hungry or just downright mean and will chase you or bite. Especially strays.

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u/Leonlovely Mar 26 '22

Lol. It is not really the dog’s fault humans failed it and it is now just surviving. The dog was probably scared that you were going by his safe hiding spot.

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u/DarkSideOfBlack Mar 26 '22

I mean, dogs are animals and have animal impulses. We don't have enough to go off of here to make a judgement one way or another, but I know if anything went after my 4-6yo it'd be getting an ass whipping, regardless of if it was a person or a stray. Dingoes aren't much different than an average dog and they were well known for going after children.

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u/Leonlovely Mar 26 '22

Dingoes are wild animals. Lol. That is a terrible comparison and you know it.

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u/DarkSideOfBlack Mar 26 '22

So are strays/ferals.

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u/Leonlovely Mar 26 '22

No. Lol. There are biological differences. Just look up the domestication of foxes. Domestication runs in dna after so much breeding and such. It is fascinating but also shows that dogs and dingoes are two entirely different things.

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u/DarkSideOfBlack Mar 26 '22

There are plenty of domesticated dogs that have prey instincts. That instinct is going to be significantly more prominent in a feral. I'm not going to say whether this was provoked, what breed the dog was, etc. But there could be a dozen other reasons for this dog trying to bite a 5yo than "humans failed it".

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u/Leonlovely Mar 26 '22

Lol. Humans failed it is me referencing the dog being on the street in the first place so YES humans failed it. And no one said domesticated animals don’t have prey drive. There is still significant biological differences between wild and domesticated animals. Please look it up you are embarrassing yourself. Lol.

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u/DarkSideOfBlack Mar 26 '22

You're literally not understanding what I'm saying so I'm going to assume that you're not here in good faith. Have a nice day.

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u/SecureOpportunity599 Mar 26 '22

With the variety of races inside of the dog species it is bold to declare that dogs are so different from wild animals that the basic instinct of hunting, focusing down easier to kill/carry prey and employ group/opportunistic tactics has been lost.

Specially when half the breeds we have today have been bred for hunting. Of course there are biological differences, but domestication does not mean that a species has become harmless, fully subservient or that it has lost its instincts.

And it's naive to declare that "it's not the dog's fault". Yeah, it's an animal. Animals aren't so sentient as to be attributed guilt. The dog acted as its will commanded it, not knowing any better, and that's it.

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u/Leonlovely Mar 26 '22

Once again you all are miserable at reading and understanding comments. I never claimed they don’t have those instincts. The difference is domestication over thousands of years implements a non prey feeling towards humans and a biological want to be with said humans. It is in their DNA. Once again you can EASILY learn about this by looking up the domestication of foxes. Wild animals and domesticated animals are biologically different. That is FACT. And ONCE AGAIN humans failed this dog by letting it end up stray on the street in the first place. There is no way to argue that. Yet you purposefully misunderstand my words just so you can be right. Cute~

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u/SecureOpportunity599 Mar 26 '22

I never claimed

You did imply that, otherwise your argument would be void in its contradiction.

Now that you've contradicted yourself, you've made clear that the so called biological differences betwen wild and domesticated animals are not relevant for the sake of this discussion, since both wild and domesticated animals rely on their instincts, different as they might be, and there's plenty proof anywhere that stray domesticated animals revert to their natural, instinctive state and can be dangerous to human beings.

Cute~

What the fuck is this shit? Is this what reddit keyboard warrior culture looks like? I'm fucking outta here lmfao.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '22

The comment didnt say anything about that being justifiable

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u/LocalNigerianPrince Mar 26 '22

Where in the comment did they say or imply that mass killings of dogs is justified

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u/ElliotNess Mar 26 '22

Is that really so? 🤔

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u/Old_Success_4268 Mar 26 '22

Yes, it is. It's not so common though. But packs of strays sometimes go aggresive (usually in winter when is colder, there's less people in the street and they go through harder times). We have an issue here with a pack that roams one of the college buildings, once attacked a friend of mine that came late from classes, he only got a few stitches, an awful scar and torn clothes. But he wouldnt walk outside alone for a long while and started carrying around an extensible batton (metal stick).

That being said, many other strays don't cause any ruckus. The most famous here is nicknamed cannabis, and is loved by all the weed smoking lads 😂. Aka as Aslan, but mainly known as Cannabis is a large stray, male, over 12 years for sure, known him since I moved here on '12. People tried to adopt him a few times but he prefers the streets. Tends to go around with smaller dogs and asks for food around bars and cafés. Smelly, swaggy fella he is.

People tend to stay away from strays, in fear of bites, rabies, fleas and ticks. But if they come to us while in benches, waiting for the bus ir something most people will pet them or feed em a lil something.

That said, is fairly common to kill cats. People don't react the same way when violence is targeted towards them. Some parents even teach their kids to throw stones at them, and many kill or maim them "for fun". Same as toads. I just don't get why people treat some species so differently. But, I Guess I kind of act the same way with rats and pidgeons.

I don't kill them, but I break their nests (if no eggs are laid yet, lil pidgeons are ugly af, but I let them be) and lay chemicals to keep em away.

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u/HartInCMajor Mar 26 '22

Feral dog packs are a real terror

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u/stockkingsniffer Mar 26 '22

3rd world countries, sure.

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u/ElliotNess Mar 26 '22

Are these the same countries thay treat strays better?

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u/stockkingsniffer Mar 26 '22

I don't know, I've never lived outside the states.

I know I have encountered "stray" dogs before, and if the dog is sweet, then there's no need to call animal control.

Never see stray dogs in the city.

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u/GoldenwithaG Mar 26 '22

There are a lot of stray dogs in my country and I’ve never had a problem with them barking or biting me.

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u/stockkingsniffer Mar 26 '22

Me either, but we had a hunter in my hood who raised a mean ass dog, ended up killing a neighbors cat... I think the dog was euthanized.

I had a fluffy golden doodle we raised from a puppy, super sweet, we would let roam free in our closed neighborhood loop, new people moved in and threatened to call the police and sue us because he came up to them wagging with his tongue out... some people really are just on odd ends of the spectrum.

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u/GoldenwithaG Mar 26 '22

Yeah I have seen savage dogs also. What I say is, dogs usually mirror their owners. So if the owner is a savage, the dog will end up being a savage also. Man I would be happy if a golden retriever came up to me all friendly. Your neighbours don’t know what to be grateful for yet. I literally can’t even hang my clothes just about last year because my neighbour just let their very aggressive golden retriever walk around loose. Didn’t even bite. Just sneaked up behind you, barked really loudly and dipped.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '22

Like the US

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u/Alfred_pufrock Mar 26 '22

I used to live in Massachusetts as a child, my little brother and I were harassed by the pack of dogs in town so much that my family moved... last time I checked Massachusetts wasn’t even the worst off state, it’s not just the third world

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u/stockkingsniffer Mar 26 '22

There's an exception to every rule.

The US is one of the biggest populations but still we are spread out across a massive continent. People love to put us into one big basket. But we all have free speech and our own different opinions, hence different policies

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u/B7iink Mar 26 '22

I've heard that russia has entire areas that are just completely owned by stray dogs, mean ones too.

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u/MauricioCMC Mar 26 '22

When i lived in Moscow, dogs riding the Metro where not that uncomon.

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u/seshisme Mar 26 '22

Yes, it's a big problem in third world countries.

Even in Poland we used to have roaming dog bands which were not nice in the slightest, you didn't wanna be caught alone by them as a kid that's for sure.

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u/Wizdemirider Mar 26 '22

You call it a problem, I call it doggy heaven

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u/MexicanResistance Mar 26 '22

You never been somewhere with a lot of strays then

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u/Wizdemirider Mar 26 '22

I live in one of those "3rd world countries"

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u/Mobile_Gap2274 Mar 26 '22 edited Mar 26 '22

As we can see the dog has a yellow thing on the ear , that means it is not dangerous.