After reading comments and feedback, and wondering what can I do? I decided to distribute a little flier to every house in the neighborhood near the dog we found. Though not cold, today was windy and rainy.
NOTICE
At this moment, there is a dog chained to a tree within a few hundred meters of your house, in the woods. He has been left, with no shelter, for at least three days. The two times we have encountered him, he has had no water.
This may be intended as a temporary situation, but nonetheless it is cruel, inhumane, and in violation of Law 18.471, Responsible Animal Ownership.
If you know who is responsible for this, we encourage you to do what you can to put an end to it.
Before doing that, though, I wanted to be sure the dog is still there, and phoned Syd to see if he’d check, since he lives nearby. He did, returning home seconds before another deluge, to report this:
The dog has moved again, but now there’s a tent that appears to have been inhabited by a person last night.
So….
I’m so glad you are involved in this Doug.
Thanks very much for your updates and your involvement.
Let’s hope it all turns to “THE GOOD” !
Still – I can be very angry and upset with people like such.
They should be punished !!
Teaching and educating etc. might be a good idea. But it is out of
“our mind level”.
As long as you have to deal with a “mind level” here, where it is an
open secret, that parts of the community “eat their dogs”, then it
won’t help. A radical turn of government influence is the only chance.
We had the same ups and downs with animal cruelty years ago in Panama.
It did not solve the problem, but at least it cut it down to a third.
HAPPY EASTER .
Just to clarify.
I did not mean that people kill their own dogs and eat them.
It still can happen, I don’t know.
What the story is, that POOR people butcher dogs and sell
the meat to POOR people. They might not know what they eat.