Andrea Rosebrock 
It seems more and more that abandoned pets are becoming the norm rather than the exception, people moving out of their homes and leaving once beloved pets behind to fate. In Scottsdale, AZ, here’s just a couple of recent sad cases. One poor dog was abandoned for a month without food and water before she was finally rescued, her life hanging by a thread.
This poor girl is just skin and bones, sick and covered in ticks, thousands of them literally sucking what little life she has left out of her.
“The ticks are feeding from her and they’ve fed too much that they don’t have any blood left,” said Martin.
Authorities hope to track down the owners who abandoned her a file charges against them.
Another abandoned dog also brought in this week with a skin disease that caused most of her fur to fall out and will take months to heal. One of her ears so swollen from irritation that it will require surgery.
The Lost Our Home Pet Foundation has taken both of these dogs as well as a cat that nearly died, in for care and treatment that will run into the thousands.
“You keep thinking you see a bad case and then you have another one come right after that,” said said Jodi Polanski, president of the Lost Our Home Pet Foundation.
Are people so stupid that they think these pets can somehow survive on their own, locked in houses and cages or do they care so little for these precious lives that they would let them suffering excruciating pain and horrors of slow deaths? Financial distress is no excuse to lose your heart and to condemn the innocent. And when and if these scum are found and charged, they usually face a small fine, maybe probation, a slap on the wrist! Where is the justice for the pain and suffering and too often death they inflicted?
This makes me sick, makes me angry, breaks my heart and makes me want to see the same evil meted out to those who do this!
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I just don’t understand how someone can just walk out on thier pets… I guess it comes from the diposible world that we live in and nonloving wolrd that goes along with it… butlet me tell you my door is always to any animal that needs a home … no question asked … they will be loved a warm place to sleep and lots of food, care and love… I find my love thru my dogs that I saved … my door is always open and there is no need to dump an animal nor walk out on them for we live by the old saying around we just add a little more food to bowls and more love to give out….
I don’t know either Katrina. I watched the video of these poor babies and just cried! Just to imagine the suffering they endured is heartbreaking… and they are they lucky one, they were actually rescued in time. Makes me think of all the ones that weren’t, the ones you never hear about…
D.
Katrina – you are indeed an angel, and an inspiration – to all of us! God bless you and your loving animals.
The saddest thing to me is to think of all the dogs who were not found in time and just waited and waited and lay there lonely wondering why no one is coming home and then just dying a sad lonely death. That kills me. It is just so unfair that these poor dogs are so helpless and can’t do anything to change the situation.
I can’t even go there Debbie. Those thoughts tear me up. Katrina….you are an Angel in every day human clothing. God blesses you every day. I just can’t even begin to imagine what in the world is going on in these idiots heads. I refuse to think about what these poor baby’s go through……I just can’t. The only way my “fur children” would ever come close to something like this, is if I were dead in the house. I, of course, would have to be dead first! NO WAY….NO HOW….would this ever happen to a single animal of mine…NEVER! What a horrible death…so very,very cruel. Makes me so sad.
Thank you Deanna for keeping these facts on the practice of the heartbreaking abandonment of dogs and cats. What a xxxing shame that our nation of bounty, even with the “economic turndown”, all the extravagant buildings, homes, amenities — and mindless people consuming what they don’t need – the most vulnerable, most loyal, loving members of our nation, the animals – are betrayed daily. We can’t forget this or quit working – Until they all have a home, and the love they deserve.
Netanya, you are so right! We have to keep fighting, educating and working. These sweet babies ask for so little and give everything they have.
D.
Again , stupidity at it’s finest . I don’t get it , if I am late for their supper by 1 hour , I feel guilty
Terry, know what you mean, I feel the same way. I am more scheduled getting my babies fed than I am about feeding myself and you can be sure they never miss a meal!
D.
I would cut my own throat before I would desert my pet. Never, never, never. You take it on. You follow it through
If I had to give a stranger $ to feed his pet I would
i’m SO with u on this, kit. i cannot fathom leaving my babies.
on another note….i do believe we’re gonna b able 2 keep our house out of foreclosure. the mortgage is a wee bit higher than we’d hoped. we’re NOT quite outa woods yet but our babies r safe……….they & we still have a roof over our heads….
Dru, that is the best news I have heard all week! Congrats – you and your babies will all stay together in your own place!
Count me in also about not leaving my babies behind. I truly would rather die than give them up or leave them.
In rescue, we see this all the time, and it is very gut wrenching and heart breaking. We do what we have to do to get the animals, but driving home, you bet I cry my eyes out. I do not get it, our dogs are “our four legged boys”, and like most of you, they eat before we do. We are capable of getting something to eat and drink on our own, but not our little babies. We are their human parents, and by leaving an animal behind, what type of human being is that? I remember when I was first diagnosed with cancer and we only had one dog at the time, but I even told my husband that if I did not survive the disease, to please make sure our baby was taken care of, and if anything happened to my husband, I had specific instructions written for my two legged boys for the care of our four legged boy. They are family – and you are always there for family first. I understand in todays day and age, that foreclosure runs rampant, but there is always somewhere to turn for help with our four leggers. There is no excuse, and by God, these morons who left these little ones left to die, should be prosecuted for neglect, just as if they had left a child there to die, because we are all created by God, and God loves our four leggers just as much as the two legged kind.
i just cannot fathom leaving my babies like that. there’s NO WAY i would walk away from them…just leaving them. it’s just 2 bloody stupid 2 think they could survive on their own…
I have heard alot about Lost Our Home Pet Foundation. They are wonderful! All I hear in AZ is people leaving their animals behind. I don’t see how they can live with themselves for doing that. The Humane Society of AZ has even offered to take their animals instead of abandoning them.
This world is surely not short on idiots.
THIS IS HORRIBLE NO EXCUSE. WHY CANT STUPID PEOPLE CAL AND SURRENDER THE ANIMALS. I BET THEY HAVE FOOD WATER ETC. PLEASE DONATE ITEMS OR YOUR TIME TO YOUR LOCAL ANIMAL SHELTERS.
Hey Ann……here’s another idea! I donate my pets unused toys. But as the holidays approach, I wanted to donate food. They need that so much. Being out of work, I relized I can not afford to do this, so I am asking our local pet stores if they will donate food. One already is, along with a large bag of brand new toys! I will be delivering these items today. Yes, they are donating, I am asking for these donations AND making the deliveries. Also, will be asking another pet store before I head out with all these goodies to the local animal shelter. If you do this, please don’t forget to publicly thank these store owners for their generous donations in your local newpapers.
Jessie, thanks for what you are doing. We all do what we can – you are coordinating donations, and I do the rescues/transports. And your thoughts to publicly thank the store owners is wonderful. Alot of people do not get the thank yous and the recognition they should.
I just think of all the homeless babies who will spend the Christmas alone in a shelter with no human counterpart to snuggle with in a home, and it makes me cry.
Thanks again Jess. The homeless babies do appreciate everything we all can do for them.
My pleasure Sue…….enjoy doing what I can, for all of God’s animal kingdom. Hope it places me close to them and with them when I pass to the other side (many moons from now). No other place I would want to be. I love all our fur baby’s….big and small…..fur and no fur (yes, even reptiles…..LOL).
Sorry Jess – not a big reptile fan. I did have one dog on a transport once, I just could not handle it. It was a Chinese Crested, and as you all know, they are furless, except for the top of their heads and their tail. I just had the hardest time handling her – she was cute and all, but to me it felt like a dead body touching her. Give me pits, rottis, any “mean” breed, or any large breed dog, and I am fine. Everyone in my transport group laughed at me, cause it does not usually matter to me what the dog is, but this one just gave me the willies!
I cannot understand how anyone can walk out and leave a pet behind when they know it is going to starve, people like that shoud be tracked down and given a severe punishment no matter what there situation, there is animal shelters so there is no need to put an animal through this, there punishment should be as bad as the dog has gone through. Why is humans so cruel to animals.
this makes my heart hurt so bad, please keep me updated
I can’t even imagine leaving an animal behind no matter what. Even if you have to give it what is left over from dinner or even go to restaurants and get the left overs or whatever, there is always a way to feed an animal. Thousands of dollars worth of food are thrown out daily and if people would just inquire they can get some of this and feed their babies. To abandon them is surely a NO NO. You would abandon your children (at least most of us wouldn’t), then why abandon an animal if it is a family member. Go to the dollar store and you can get food, toys and blankets for these babies until the hard times pass. I will be going and getting some things and taking them to my local shelter for xmas. Wish I could bring them all home, but unfortunately I can’t. Going to retire this next month and start doing more for these fur babies. I hope all of you have a very Merry Christmas and may the New Year be a better one. God Bless you all.