Comments on: The Dog Whisperer

By: serbiz

serbiz — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:49:30 +0000

You found a place at a great price; clearly the price was being knocked down to compensate you for doing work there. Trying to feign ignorance–did you or did you not check out the place beforehand?

Anyway, SPCA won’t do anything unless it’s requested by someone with authority. If they took away every animal that they got calls about, then people would call them to take away any dog/cat that they thought was “irritating”. eg You yourself have two dogs that someone finds irritating, imagine if they could be taken away because someone simply called up SPCA.

As for the solution to this problem; since the girl is only around for 10 minutes a day, you should go and sell the dogs yourself. You can share the money if you want.

By: The Victim

The Victim — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:47:26 +0000

Please note that animal control was contacted as well as anyone else that I could think of. Didn’t do anything, she’s still there and doing her thing. Or not doing her thing, as one might say. I looked into all kinds of legal things but the state that I live in doesn’t have rules about breeding or even limits on the number of dogsn a household. I even tried getting the HOA involved and last I knew, there were hundreds of dollars in violations for her because of the HOA. I don’t understand why the landlord hasn’t evicted her yet. Also, I waited to contact animal control until I was out of the house because I didn’t want to risk having my dogs be included in the neglected dog catagory.
Also, these dogs did not have papers and I know for a fact that her main breeder male has some mysterious illness that was never able to be diagnosed so who knows what defects were being passed on into those thousand dollar puppies she sold to people.
I didn’t have any options and its not like I was wanting to help run a puppymill. I lived there less than 3 months and I tried to do what I could to keep the poor dogs from being neglected.

By: MMMichelle

MMMichelle — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:46:55 +0000

Yeah, she had to help these dogs. The shelters will not take them. I guess she could have ignored them like you would have done. That’s SO much better. Please think about what not “helping the roommate” would have done, you may want to change your response.

By: Meshell

Meshell — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:18:49 +0000

Jade, I think the issue is communicating with the MVWRM that you WILL call animal control on her neglect of the animals.

But I think the issue with most MVWRM is communication — whether they are even listening much less the “poor victim” is even speaking up.

By: Jade

Jade — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:46:08 +0000

Animal control won’t do anything unless the animals are being denied food and water or have obvious signs of abuse or neglect. Just because someone isn’t always home to give their dogs an ideal level of attention does not mean its classed as animal abuse or neglect. I’ve called animal control on far worse and basically been told they can’t do anything.

By: ghgsw

ghgsw — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:29:58 +0000

Kudos for feeding the dogs at least, but I think a call to the RSPCA is definitely in order.
Something tells me she doesn’t meet any of the qualifications a proper breeder should; giving a flying fuck being the least of the requirements. Do the dogs have papers, at least a medical history that says they’re unlikely to pass on serious hereditary defects? :/

By: Goodjob

Goodjob — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:36:59 +0000

Mystic_eye, Kelly and I are all on the same page.

By: mystic_eye

mystic_eye — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:04:31 +0000

I’m with GoodJob. If your roommate isn’t caring for her animals you call animal control. Last I checked most dogs need to go outside.

I’m not saying you can’t agree to help out, but if its just assumed you mention it a few times then you call animal control

By: dogrelatedconundrum

dogrelatedconundrum — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:42:56 +0000

Goodjob, what alternative would you have suggested?

By: Goodjob

Goodjob — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:34:18 +0000

So you helped somebody run a puppy mill. Congrats.