We got Toby from the local shelter, not from the nice one in Iron River.

I know what you mean about people dropping animals off. We used to live out in the country in Kansas when I was a child, and people would dump their dogs out there all the time. Before we moved out to the farm, it had been abandoned for a while and there was a pack of wild dogs living there. I vaguely remember what they looked like - they had very short coats and they were medium-sized. Their ribs and hip bones stuck way out and they had big fat ticks all over them. Except one - she was a malamute and very pretty. My dad said they were "vicious" and shot all of them except for the malamute. We tried to keep her as a pet but it didn't work out.

People think that because they're animals they can make it in the wild - what they don't realize is that there are already wild animals out there using up all the resources and they end up fighting with coyotes, etc. for food! Even if they could survive by hunting, there's not enough food available for all of them.

Gosh darn rednecks.