Years ago I volunteered as an adoption counselor at the Humane Society. They made adopters of cats sign an agreement to keep their cats indoors. Of course, it wasn't enforced.
I don't like those invisible fences. My first greyhound, Jessie, whom I lost to cancer years ago was attacked by a dog behind an invisible fence. When dogs want to go through them, they can. Besides the stupid neighbors left an aggressive dog outside when they weren't home. My dog's tail was shredded and ran up almost a $5k bill trying to ease his pain.
The neighbors got really upset because a friend of mine was a writer for the St Louis Post-Dispatch and at the time was the editor of a section on pets that ran in the Saturday paper. She wrote a story about invisible fences and used my name and my Jessie's name in the article. All the neighbors knew who we were talking about. Poor people, they were embarassed. I got the bills for the vet. It took them 3 months to pay for just the initial $225 vet bill. I paid the other $4k plus. I had to ask them at least 5 or 6 times before they paid. They weren't poor people, had a newer BMW, sent their kids to fancy private schools, had a nice house. They were simply jerks who never apologized.
I'm usually more subtle, but hearing that dog moan every night and having to give him those phentonyl (sp) patches for the extreme pain (had to wear gloves before putting them on him) did something to me. At a neighborhood picnic I approached the guy. I'm hoping my voice didn't get too high, but I asked him if he wanted to know how Jessie was doing. He didn't respond, so I told him Jessie was dead. He said he didn't care. He was a big guy, the head of a construction company, but I made a few choice remarks to him.
Afterwards I thought that I did it for Jessie. I've never gotten that angry before nor since. Jessie was my heart dog and that guy was a putz. So was his wife. I was so angry because due to the infection he got from the dog attack, the vets at the U. of Mo Vet School told me there was basically nothing I could do for the osteosarcoma that appeared near the site of that attack. I've learned since not to go to such heroic efforts with osteosarcoma. You can't beat that damned cancer, no matter how you try. Mrs. Smith is indeed doing the right thing. I'm ashamed now that I prolonged Jessie's life for so long with about every supplement that I could find at Whole Foods.He got an extra year, but at what a price to both Jess and to me.
Re: Sad weekend at our house
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Quote from: MrsSmith on January 29, 2012, 06:00:59 am
Wow, your poor cat! We are currently working on teaching our newest cat to stay indoors, and it's an uphill battle. It must be done for a similar reason, we're moving outside town in a few weeks, and don't want him to be coyote bait. Have you considered doing that with your cat? It sucks because the dog owners should have better control of their dogs, but it seems that won't happen.
Years ago I volunteered as an adoption counselor at the Humane Society. They made adopters of cats sign an agreement to keep their cats indoors. Of course, it wasn't enforced.
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I don't like those invisible fences. My first greyhound, Jessie, whom I lost to cancer years ago was attacked by a dog behind an invisible fence. When dogs want to go through them, they can. Besides the stupid neighbors left an aggressive dog outside when they weren't home. My dog's tail was shredded and ran up almost a $5k bill trying to ease his pain.
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What people do not understand is what if the cat or dog were not the target but a child.
So visiting a BBQ cook out with a 3 year old, and the child is not on a leash, they run after a butterfly and go onto property with the invisable fence for their dogs.
What then, the child is pray, same as cats and dogs that enter the property.
Horrible about our pets, but what about a little kid that even with parents at their side know nothing about the invisible fence or the dogs behind it, out of sight until pray comes into their territory.
These fences can be jumped dogs are not stupid, I watched this as I took my pooch for a run on the river bank on Mom's property. Neighbors dog well trained and within the owners fence saw us with the little guy, became excited and jumped the fence and barrelled ass towards us. Just to sniff the puppy but we all patted the dog and friendly as could be. no problem, good friendly dog, but I wonder if the puppy had wandered into and over the electric fence onto their property. How would the dog have reacted had the puppy wandered over the fence into this dogs domain ??
