Abandoned Dogs Roam Detroit in Packs as Humans Dwindle

[CG6468]

Abandoned Dogs Roam Detroit in Packs as Humans Dwindle
By Chris Christoff - Aug 20, 2013 11:01 PM CT

As many as 50,000 stray dogs roam the streets and vacant homes of bankrupt Detroit, replacing residents, menacing humans who remain and overwhelming the city’s ability to find them homes or peaceful deaths.

Aug. 21 (Bloomberg) –- Thousands of stray dogs roam the streets and vacant homes of bankrupt Detroit, replacing residents, menacing people who remain and overwhelming the city's ability to find them homes or peaceful deaths. Bloomberg's Kevin Thrash reports. (Source: Bloomberg)

Dens of as many as 20 canines have been found in boarded-up homes in the community of about 700,000 that once pulsed with 1.8 million people. One officer in the Police Department's skeleton animal-control unit recalled a pack splashing away in a basement that flooded when thieves ripped out water pipes.

“The dogs were having a pool party,” said Lapez Moore, 30. “We went in and fished them out.”

Poverty roils the Motor City and many dogs have been left to fend for themselves, abandoned by owners who are financially stressed or unaware of proper care. Strays have killed pets, bitten mail carriers and clogged the animal shelter, where more than 70 percent are euthanized.

And the insanity continues…

[Wineslob]

"In other news: Chinese Restaurants thrive in Detroit".

[DefiantSix]

"In other news: Chinese Restaurants thrive in Detroit".

Don't you have to have more customers than armed robbers for that to be true?

[Dori]

Sounds like a third world country.  Disgraceful.

[CG6468]

"Third world country" and "democrat controlled" are the same thing.

[Ptarmigan]

Sounds like a third world country.  Disgraceful.

In America. It is unacceptable.

[debk]

I read an article yesterday or day before regarding the housing market and the cities that are doing the worst and the ones that are seeing the best recovery with highest sales.

Detroit was number 5.... in the list of best recovery!!!!

Now...haven't we been seeing all over the news this month how horrible Detroit is and all the abandoned houses and people leaving etc?

Which one is true?

If Detroit is seeing a huge uptick in the housing market ... just WHO in the hell is buying these houses?

There is a group that has come in here... I will look it up later....that is going around the country to various cities, buying in mid-level affordable houses. Here it's been in the low $100's to low $300's. Rumor has it, they are looking to buy 300 houses here! That's a lot of houses...anywhere. They are paying cash. They houses are going to be used for "rental properties".

I hate to sound  .... but 300 houses!! When it first started happening, people - Realtors, home sellers, the media - were really excited. Yes it is good for the housing market and local economy... but. Who exactly will be renting these houses?

[JohnnyReb]

I hate to sound  .... but 300 houses!! When it first started happening, people - Realtors, home sellers, the media - were really excited. Yes it is good for the housing market and local economy... but. Who exactly will be renting these houses?

Chinese, Arabs or both maybe and then rent out as section 8 sucking more money out of the US government.

I don't know really.

[obumazombie]

"Third world country" and "democrat controlled" are the same thing.

So many of our cities are turning into desolate wastelands because of lib policies. Saint Louis, Memphis just to name a couple. These cities are well below their peak populations.

[Dori]

Detroit was number 5.... in the list of best recovery!!!!

Now...haven't we been seeing all over the news this month how horrible Detroit is and all the abandoned houses and people leaving etc?

The Chinese are buying up property
http://marketdailynews.com/2013/07/31/the-chinese-are-buying-up-real-estate-and-businesses-in-detroit/

[debk]

Chinese, Arabs or both maybe and then rent out as section 8 sucking more money out of the US government.

I don't know really.

This price range is not Section 8 housing here. These are nice houses.

[JohnnyReb]

This price range is not Section 8 housing here. These are nice houses.

If you wanted to destroy or buy up a whole town/city cheaply by moving in a bunch of thugsters, where would you start?

[Dori]

Caroline Chen, a real estate broker in Troy, Michigan, says she’s received “tons of calls” from people in mainland China. “I have people calling and saying, ‘I’m serious—I wanna buy 100, 200 properties,’” she tells Quartz, noting that one of her colleagues recently sold 30 properties to a Chinese buyer. “They say ‘We don’t need to see them. Just pick the good ones.’” -

 http://marketdailynews.com/2013/07/31/the-chinese-are-buying-up-real-estate-and-businesses-in-detroit/#sthash.TBbyPoBz.dpuf

[JohnnyReb]

On a side note.....Obama, who goes shooting all the time, wants to know when "Dog Season" opens in Detroit and how much an out of state license costs?

[Chris_]

On a side note.....Obama, who goes shooting all the time, wants to know when "Dog Season" opens in Detroit and how much an out of state license costs?

"Can I get me a hunting license here?"

[debk]

If you wanted to destroy or buy up a whole town/city cheaply by moving in a bunch of thugsters, where would you start?

You have a point.


I wasn't things "thugsters".... I was thinking terrorists.

OakRidge is convenient to most of those being purchased. Also very easy to get to several of the largest TVA lakes and screw up our water and electricity. 

[JohnnyReb]

You have a point.


I wasn't things "thugsters".... I was thinking terrorists.

OakRidge is convenient to most of those being purchased. Also very easy to get to several of the largest TVA lakes and screw up our water and electricity. 

I hadn't considered that angle.

I read somewhere that we allow 250,000 muslims to immigrate here every year. Buying 300 homes for them in many towns would be a good way to evenly distribute the terrorism around the country.

[Eupher]

Maybe, with luck, all the Chinese will buy up all the crack houses, burned-out hulks, Section 8 ghettoes, and abandoned properties and encroach on what the muzzies did to Dearborn back in the 70's, 80's, and 90's.

Then an out-and-out range war would start.

Once everything else that wasn't already trashed has been destroyed, the bulldozers can come in and shovel everything onto barges in the Detroit River and get it to a series of land fills in Canada somewhere.

Then maybe we can start all over again.

[debk]

I hadn't considered that angle.

I read somewhere that we allow 250,000 muslims to immigrate here every year. Buying 300 homes for them in many towns would be a good way to evenly distribute the terrorism around the country.

 

maybe I've been reading too many fiction books with the bad guys assimilated into the Western world, but that what I was thinking...

[Dori]

Sharia...one state at a time 

[obumazombie]

"Can I get me a hunting license here?"

It comes as a complete set with matching dog recipe book.

[longview]

Detroit's always had dog packs.  I bet they have more now.  Like any third world kind of place.  We used to shoot them when I was growing up there.  Mangy, hungry things that would stalk you out of desperation.  We tried to be exact and not just wound one.  I never only wounded.  I always felt very sorry for them.

What a hole that place is.

[Lacarnut]

"Can I get me a hunting license here?"

Sign me up but it has to be for the 2 legged dogs.