If You Would Not Be Out In The Cold Why Should Your Dog?

[Sugar Cookie]

Several dogs across Northeast Ohio were rescued by authorities after their owners refused to take the freezing animals in from the cold.

In Portage County, three dogs were removed from their yard due to freezing temperatures and a lack of shelter, according to the Portage Animal Protective League.

The owner was asked by the shelter's humane officer to take the animals inside and out of the cold. After waiting around an hour for the dog owner to take the animals inside or give them shelter outside, the humane officer removed them from the property.

Temperatures at the time were around 2 degrees with the wind chill.

According to authorities, the three dogs were very hungry and had never lived indoors. They spent their first night inside with warm blankets, water and food.

In Cuyahoga County, the Cleveland Animal Protective League received 18 calls for animals left out in the cold just from Monday to Wednesday.

One dog was rescued from the cold and the other 17 pet owners were educated about pet responsibility, authorities said.

https://www.news5cleveland.com/news...-leaves-them-outside-in-freezing-temperatures

 

[lapsus.lingua]

Sugar Cookie, you are my hero Thank you for this! I officially have a girl-crush on you now
[doublepost=1513388629,1513387645][/doublepost]Okay, gotta say it. We have pasture land on 3 sides of our house, populated by several head of cattle, and a barn out back. There are currently 2 feral cats that have moved into the barn, and they are welcome. We leave food and water out there for them. There are always one or two at any given time, because it's a mutually beneficial relationship. We feed, water and shelter them (by not chasing them from the barn) and they keep the rats out of the hay. Even though they have a barn with hay to shelter in, we STILL make blanket-nests for them and set up an old clothes dryer in the loft with a vent that blows down on the blanket-nest/food and water dishes area in the ground level for the sole purpose of keeping them warm when it's cold out. Either my hubby or I go out before bed and turn the dryer on- never anything in it, just running it empty-so they have warm air from the vent. Kinda crazy way to go about warming them, but you can't put a heater in a barn full of hay and sleep well, you know? LOL.
If we can do that for feral cats who squat in our barn, why can't people who claim to love pets protect those pets from the elements?! I just don't get that.

 

[notchback]

Okay, gotta say it. We have pasture land on 3 sides of our house, populated by several head of cattle, and a barn out back. There are currently 2 feral cats that have moved into the barn, and they are welcome. We leave food and water out there for them. There are always one or two at any given time, because it's a mutually beneficial relationship. We feed, water and shelter them (by not chasing them from the barn) and they keep the rats out of the hay. Even though they have a barn with hay to shelter in, we STILL make blanket-nests for them and set up an old clothes dryer in the loft with a vent that blows down on the blanket-nest/food and water dishes area in the ground level for the sole purpose of keeping them warm when it's cold out. Either my hubby or I go out before bed and turn the dryer on- never anything in it, just running it empty-so they have warm air from the vent. Kinda crazy way to go about warming them, but you can't put a heater in a barn full of hay and sleep well, you know? LOL.
If we can do that for feral cats who squat in our barn, why can't people who claim to love pets protect those pets from the elements?! I just don't get that.

Can I just say now that I love you.

 

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Girl crushes abounds in this thread.