Unwanted Dogs Dumped in Iowa Forest

AHeinz57 rescued seven dogs who were dumped by their owners and abandoned in an south-central Iowa forest. Here are their stories.

This was from only a few hours ---there are many more dogs at that location.

Last Edited by Ralph--a house dog on 08/15/2018 11:35 AM

There are shelters all over the country who will help your dog if you cannot...

I pray they are all rescued and adopted by loving families! Then I hope some sort of surveillance or something could be initiated for that area to fine these people who dump animals like this instead of finding them a home.

Fucking pisses me off. It is only a misdemeanor to dump a dog in Iowa.

Never thought about what the crime is but it should be a felony.

It is completely despicable. Those poor animals don't have a choice in the matter; the people are just lazy assholes.

I've worked with animal rescue groups and this is a prevalent thing in some areas. Creeps who do this DO get caught but not often enough.

Pin request...to get some good loving care to the doggies abandoned...


And some booty kicking to abandoners

Omarosa?

This is a very bad thing...

In their misguided minds they are probably thinking food for the coyotes and wolves...

If they have an owner that is so incompetent they dump the dogs in a forest the dogs are better off on their own. They usually form up in packs when left alone like wolves do and they get food in ways similar to coyotes. They find scraps, small animals, garbage left by people, etc. Trust me they are better off with a pact that looks after them then being with an abusive owner.

Of course smaller dogs are pretty much screwed. I speak from experience I grew up in a big city where pacts of stray dogs were all too common back then.

It sucks but once u helped dog pound put down some dogs and cats. After they were all dead we threw em in the back of a pickup truck.. piss shit. Vomit etc. All over the place. After that we took em to the landfill and threw em in a hole. Better a Forrest than what I experienced. I'll never forget

My grandparents live out in the country on the outskirts of a small town. People dump dogs out where they are often. They have found good homes for many and kept more than they wanted. They have networked with dog refuges and non-kill shelters in many places and sometimes travel two states over to take dogs to proper places. One abandoned Labrador Retriever was pregnant and had 11 puppies. She and all the pups had heartworm. My grandparents had to call around to many animal organizations and found most of the funding to treat them all- they paid some themselves.

Once, my grandmother saw a skeletal dog in the distance. It kept inching closer. She was afraid it was diseased or maybe rabid- and would yell at it to keep it back. She went to town and bought some groceries and when she came back and had gone into the house with the first load of groceries, when she came out- she saw the torn into, empty bread sack laying on the ground and the skeletal dog was a few feet away. She then realized that the poor dog was just starving.

This is so sad and disgusting. From the OP's article:

"A woman was arrested last month east of Springfield, Missouri, after surveillance video showed her dumping a dog, which chased her vehicle as it drove away."

What kind of sick person does this???

Sad story.

Maybe they're assholes. Maybe some of them could no longer keep the dog for whatever reason, but they didn't want to give it to a shelter because they were scared it would be euthanized.

Should find a refuge or no kill shelter and tie the dog to a post or fence on the grounds just before daybreak, if nothing better. Sometimes you'd have to drive 100 miles, but surely one could do at least that for a former pet. Spend a little gas money and give it a chance.

I agree. I'm just trying to get in the mind of why someone would do it.

Yes, I know, it's hard to comprehend- even for desperate people. Hard to believe that many have no other choice all of a sudden- a kill shelter or abandoned to the wild.

They should put signs up in the area, and other places, instructing people how to properly give up a pet animal, with a phone number to call for assistance.
Maybe some think it would cost them money to get rid of the animal, and they are broke.
Sad shit.

This is why I spent more time with animals then humans. I hope animals go to heaven

Some even leave animals abandoned in houses or tied up in yards. One dog in my town was found dead due to being tied up and no water. My grandmother is pretty sure that the skeletal dog that came to her house had been tied up or locked up somehow- with maybe a bit of water but no food for quite a while, then it managed to escape.

Anyone who abandons a vulnerable being: an animal, child, sick, elder, deserves the harshest of punishment.

In the country we see all manor of dumped animals (albeit some escaped and ran) some hurt, some friendly, neighbors keep finding homes for dumped dogs. I've been lucky and found owner of the only one that made it to my house. My next door neighbor throws rocks (or whatever) to chase them off.

Yea, when I was a kid we lived in the country, and that's where all of our dogs came from, strays that we took in. They were always good dogs too.

Dogs are generally good; it's people who suck.

Farmers and ranchers kill literally hundreds of thousands of abandoned stray dogs that have packed up and kill livestock each and every year..






Last Edited by Non Attorney Spokesperson on 08/15/2018 01:00 PM

People dump dogs and horses all the time where I live. The horses end up integrating into the herds of feral horses. Libs like call them "Wild Mustangs." In reality, few are actual mustangs.

We adopted a dog dumped out here in eleven degree cold temperature about six winters ago. Many more get dumped in the small towns. I suspect some end up as "Carne Asada" at the hole-in-the-wall Mexican restaurants.

This is so sad it just makes me want to cry. I only know one way that I could possibly help, somewhat.

Go to the animal rescue site every day and give a click. They really do help animals!

Last year clicks funded the value of 56 million bowls of food for animals.

[link to theanimalrescuesite.greatergood.com]

Fuckers.

Should be harsher penalties.