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Chocolate Labrador found with heat stroke near Chestnut Hill Reservoir
By adamg on Fri, 09/18/2015 - 1:18pm
UPDATE: Owner found.
Boston Animal Control reports this male chocolate Lab was found in tough shape near the reservoir yesterday, with no license tag or microchip:
The dog is currently at Angell Animal Medical Center at 350 South Huntington Avenue in Jamaica Plain. This is an intact male Chocolate Labrador Retriever. If this is your dog please contact them at 617 522 7282 immediately!
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What's sad is that people
What's sad is that people from the New England area pay big bucks to adopt rescue dogs, labs being especially popular, from kill shelters in Texas and yet there are dogs here being neglected and in need of good homes.
i will Gladly
take in this dog! Looks like a tough old timer!
Big bucks?
Want to try that one again? Three rescues from Northeast Animal Shelter, in Salem. All around $350, which covered maybe half of what they laid out in Veterinary costs prior to the adoption. Not insignificant, but not exactly $3K designer-doodle from a puppy mill either.
There's enough rescuing to go around, both locally and from southern kill shelters, so that we don't have to throw rocks at either.
Do YOU want to try that one
Do YOU want to try that one again? I said Texas. Google kill shelters in Texas and I'm sure you'll find a wealth of information. My brother has adopted two rescue dogs from kill shelters in Texas. Both are labradors. Is that a fancy designer dog to you? Right. I didn't think so.
Northeast Animal....
Gets most of it's rescues from kill shelters in the South. Mine were from shelters in West Virginia, Tennessee, and Georgia, by way of Northeast. And would have been euthanized if they hadn't been taken by a local non-kill shelter. Which according to you, we should all avoid.
That google thing you mention? Give it a try some time.
I NEVER said local animal
I NEVER said local animal shelters should be avoided. I have in the past adopted cats from local animal shelters.
What I said, and perhaps inarticulately, was that it is a shame that given the enormous popularity of labs in New England that people are adopting them from shelter in Texas where they are killed if not adopted out within a given amount of time, that a local person would abandon a lab here. If from that you think I said that local animal shelters should be avoided based on that, then the issue is with your reading comprehension.
I adopted and took care of an adult cat that was thrown out of a moving vehicle in front the Lowell Humane Society. I adopted sibling kittens rescued from an abandonded industrial site in Manchester, NH. So before you go pointing fingers at me, perhaps you should reconsider that you misread my comment.
to be fair
your original comment was not very clear
I worked at a well known Boston shelter
it was common to 'put down', or 'sacrifice' animals, including dogs and cats, that were dropped off by those who no longer wanted them or couldn't care for them. And it wasn't just because they were very ill, rather, being a type of dog, cat, etc. that was unpopular breed, being too long without adoption, over-crowding at the shelter, etc. Many small animal pets like bunnies were usually immediately 'sacrificed' as soon as whoever dropped them off had their back turned.
What a brave soul you must be
What a brave soul you must be to both impugn the motives of people in this area who at their own expense take in rescue dogs from all corners of this country that are in need while also pretending there are not countless people and organizations in this area working tirelessly to care for the same kinds of animals in Massachusetts, with significant overlap between the two sectors. Bravo.
No one said he was neglected
He may have escaped or run away, or slipped a dog sitter, or his owner is elderly, or was poor or homeless, or any number of crazy scenarios. His collar could have fallen off, or perhaps he didn't have one: unwise, but not necessarily neglectful.
Just because he wasn't chipped and not wearing a collar when found doesn't mean he was neglected. Let's wait until they locate the owner and get the full story before leaving charges of animal neglect.
Owner located
I just read on Lost Dogs Massachusetts on Facebook that the owner has been located. Yay!
Any information on how he
Any information on how he wound up there? It's such a sad story.
poor little fella
Hope he makes a speedy recovery, and a safe home with humans who love him.
And that the owners make a BIG donation
on top of whatever vet costs they've incurred.
Poor thing. Not neutered.
Poor thing. Not neutered. Not chipped. No collar. Nobody watching him. Maybe his wandering behavior is caused by his not being neutered ?? It did say he was intact.
Thanks!
I was wondering if that's what "intact" meant... I'm not a dog person.
Already learned something new today!