They let it happen again! *3 more pics added*

[lute]

i agree with applesmom. if you try to take the dog yourself you could get into a lot of trouble.

i would call animal control though.

[applesmom]

I'm sorry.. I fail to see how Cori is doing anything wrong.

You could not, should not let a puppy sit there and suffer. I don't care who you're enabling. If you're capable of letting a defensless puppy starve and suffer to death..... I don't even know what to say.

I agree with calling animal control on them.

And what's going to happen with the poor debilitated mother dog and the next litter of pups and the next and the next?????????????

Animal control can't do anything unless the dog is abused, running loose, or deprived of food, water, shelter or medical care for an obvious health problem.

[Catty1]

So I am confused. If the Mom DOES live in another city - how did you get the puppy so fast?

Call the Humane Society or Animal Control in that city, and report the mother for abuse and neglect. She is endangering the mother dog's health, and has already caused the death of nearly a whole litter of puppies.

YOu can also get a letter from the vet that stitched up the one remaining puppy.

DO IT! And let them handle it. They may seize the dog - at least she will be spayed and hopefully rehomed.

That woman does not deserve that dog. And I hope she does not have the nerve to say she loves it.

Her lack of action and responsibility is anything BUT loving!

[borzoimom]

You just need to take the dog to the vet yourself and get her spayed!
No asking... no more talking to them until your blue in the face, they are never going to get it through their THICK SKULL!!!!

Just pick her up... and drive her to the vet.

There is a problem with that. Dogs are treated as property. You could be charged for this under taking. Also calling animal control would not do any good unless she is being mistreated etc. And the puppy is now being cared for.
I would make a deal to take care of the puppy in exchange for them getting her spayed and the sooner the better with the real risk of pyrametia now. Maybe you could call animal control HS and tell them the situation and you are worried about the mother but they wont go get veternary care for her.

[JenBKR]

And what's going to happen with the poor debilitated mother dog and the next litter of pups and the next and the next?????????????

Yet if that puppy is left to die, who's to say that she won't just let future puppies die?

[Flatcoatluver]

If she was letting the future puppies die, wouldn't animal control step in then? I am not saying she should just stop caring for the puppies; you are doing such a nice thing, molucass. What a cutie pie. But our animal control educates owners too. Wouldn't it be nice if they could educate her, and maybe that may scare her enough? She doesn't care about her dog having problems during birth or breast cancer in the future.

[applesmom]

If the puppy had been left with her and animal control had been called right then; they could have done something. Without seeing the situation for themselves, they're powerless!

I can't honestly say what I'd have done in the same situation. It's much easier to be detached and think rationally if one hasn't actually been there.

[ramanth]

If I'm understanding correctly, this dog has had numerous litters where many puppies HAVE died. I don't see how it's enabling of Cori to take the one surviving puppy and try to save it. The woman obviously doesn't care to get her dog spayed and cares nothing for the puppies that are stillborn.

I just don't get how that's not animal abuse.

[Sevaede]

At least if Animal Control is called they will put it on file for future reference (Whatever situation that may be).

[molucass]

To show you just how little this woman cares, I'm going to share a detail that I left out on purpose...



They didn't even give the other puppies a proper burial. They threw them away outside in the trash can.

I mean I know they were already deceased, but I would have at least buried them instead of throwing them away with the garbage.



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This is what I said on the other forum:

I'm sorry some of you think I should just have stood by and let this puppy be thrown outside in 20 something degree weather to starve to death or freeze to death. But I just wasn't going to do that.

I don't even live in Texas where they all live, so I don't rush to their aide every freaking time they do something stupid.

Maybe my heart is too big, but I'm NOT going to let a poor defenseless newborn puppy suffer because of someone else's stupidity.

I've tried telling them until I am blue in the face that they need to get her spayed, she doesn't have healthy milk to nurse the puppies, and half the time most of them are stillborn. If they choose to let their poor dog outside when she's in heat, there's not one damn thing I can do about it. She's not my dog, she doesn't live with me and I don't live with them. I don't even LIVE in the state they live in anymore. I am just down here visiting my parents and got word of this and wasn't going to stand by and do nothing.

If it had been left with my friends mother, the puppy would have been thrown outside like the deceased puppies whether it was alive or not by itself.

[borzoimom]

Call the HS or animal control. Tell them you have the puppy, but the mother has not received veternary care, and the pups were tossed as you said and for them to go check it out. Even tell them you can show them the puppy you saved.. Maybe they can seize her.

[JenBKR]

Don't let them get you down sweetie, you did the right thing for that puppy!

[borzoimom]

Oh honey- you did the right thing about the puppy. Now we are just trying to help the mother.. Thats all. I applaud your committment as one who also has bottle fed a puppy.

[applesmom]

No one is trying to get anyone down. At least I hope not! There probably isn't anyone that's been involved with dogs for any length of time that hasn't found themselves in a similar situation.

The pet overpopulation disaster is overwhelmingly out of control. The only way to find a solution is through discussion and sharing of thoughts and ideas. Even those that post opposing thoughts have the same goal. The overall welfare of the animals!!!!

As far as disposing of stillborn puppies in the trash; once again that's a matter of individual preference and wouldn't be an issue for many people. Disposing of live newborns in that manner isn't a rational choice for anyone!

[areias]

Unfortunately animal control isn't always the greatest, and isn't always an option. The cases you see on T.V. are the worst cases they get...they don't always step in, especially if you are being honest with them. Sometimes you almost have to exaggerate the issues with the animal.

I called our local livestock animal control because of some pretty bad conditions at a horse boarding facility. They did come out, but they did not seize any animals, and the horses that were skinny have gained weight and a horse that had a leg swollen about 3x it's size is no longer there, and the stalls are mucked out. It did get better, but not totally. They didn't seize any animals.

I called AC about a nursing mother dog with what appeared to mastitis. They wouldn't come out, saying she was probably just nursing. They lived right down the road, and had the puppies for free. I went to go check them out before I got Romeo, and they were looking for the "brown ones" and figured they must of run away. So AC just wouldn't do anything.

They probably will NOT seize that dog...it's well fed and has no apparant injuries. If they found her with the puppy with its neck ripped open and no medical attention, they might have.