• Man finds dog abandoned in basement after moving into new home.
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Man finds dog abandoned in basement after moving into new home |.. A man who just moved into his new home was surprised to find a dog left behind in the basement. Jumping Bean, who had no food or water, was left chained up in her own excrement by someone who was previously living there – thought to be a squatter. Mounds of rubbish were also left on the floor when the unnamed man, from St Louis, Missouri, moved in. When he found the dog left in the dark room, he immediately called Stray Rescue of St Louis to ask for their help. ‘When we opened the door to the basement and shined our flashlight down, we saw a wagging tail,’ Natalie Thomson, the group’s communications director, told The Dodo . ‘She was nearly choking herself as she was so excited to see us. When we freed her, she couldn’t stop jumping up and down and giving hugs.’ Her rescuers named her Jumping Bean, and took her into the shelter where she is now waiting to find a new home, where she can stay permanently and not just in the basement. https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/774/badc1ee2-6f91-4366-93fd-59847edd4ee2/a9bb5666799f188095bd3c93bde17117.png https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/774/aa304d66-17cf-4a26-92fc-86744cc3f2a8/7f889acf0e73a2eaeba4090668300757.png https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/774/4e3a73b9-7e52-4a6b-9b8a-975a5e7c5809/11f8d98c19972582c60a25763c2300a6.png
Well, at least this has a happy ending.
Thankfully they found her before it was too late. Good to know she's safe at the shelter at least.
What kind of scumbag would do this?
People who just leave their pets directly at the home where they moved out are the worst. At least try and find a shelter or new home, if you really can't take your pet with you. Seen to many of those cases on some rescue channels.
No dog deserves this shit. Hope it doesn't take long to find her a new home.
Maybe not exactly common in terms abandoning your pet, I suppose most people try to do that a place where it can't be connected to them. It still happens every now and then though. Rescue videos might not be the best metric to go by but it is not extremely rare either. Just a week ago there was another video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxmXkBlmm3Y
We recently started volunteering at the local PetSmart, taking care of the cats. One of them had been left at his home by his owner after he moved. I think this practice is probably a lot more common than people think.
Some asshole who moved out of their house in my town left a crate of dead dogs in it. When they moved they left the dogs to die, even though there was tons of rescues and shelters which would have taken them instantly.
Fuck people who did this. I took in a cat who was abandoned a few years ago, they just threw her outside before moving out. I know it was them because the tracks started appearing in the snow around the same time, and they lead from that house to mine and the lady on my street who also takes in stray cats had never seen her before.
I dont understand people that get pets but don't have a lasting connection to them. why even have a pet if you aren't going to treasure it?
Fuck people who do this. My old boss bought a condo once and discovered a dog that had was left and so starved it had begun eating the drywall and had gone blind. Miraculously, it survived, and after a recovery period at a shelter/animal hospital it recovered some of its sight and they found it a new home. My area of Florida has no shortage of animal shelters and pet stores that work with them. The old tenant probably could have walked to one, they're so prolific. Zero excuse for this. These people are psychopaths and should be in jail.
I really do think these people must be psychopaths. I don't know how anyone could not grasp that these are living creatures being left behind, or thrown out like garbage. Where is the difficulty in taking the animal to a shelter? I dont know if they are just incredibly lazy, or truly uncaring.
All animals value their own kind more. How often do you see zebras just laying down and letting the lion have a pick? What matters is that we're supposed to be above animals, but apparently some sub-human trash didn't get the memo and abandoned this creature that evolved beside us as our loyal companion. People that abandon pets are some of the worst pele imaginable. I can understand murder before I understand animal abuse.
If that happened to me I don't think i'd be able to stop myself being the one to adopt the dog, at least it doesn't look like it was there long. That being said, everyone loves to jump on the "bad person left the dog" but what if the article is right and it was some squatters dog, if something happened to them or circumstances kept them away from the property, ie - it being sold, how can you really blame them?
You know, that's true. We don't know what happened to the original owner. It might have been beyond their control. Still though, I believe that when you have an animal that depends on you for survival there's a responsibility to have some sort of reasonable contingency plan. There shouldn't be a situation where if you're prevented from coming around again your animal just dies with no recourse.
That smile melted my heart and now I'm fucking dead
France had to run multiple PSAs about how dogs aren't toys to be abandoned when you're tired of them because people would constantly tie them to a tree on the side of the road and then go on vacation.
Hey free dog right there. On a more serious note... Why are people so awful to animals?
Every time I see these threads I go pet and hug my dog. These articles boil my blood like nothing else.
Ya know I saw on reddit that this probably was some squatter's dog. Seeing as it wasn't malnourished, pretty friendly towards complete strangers.
I would wager the squatter was arrested or moved on and hoped to god someone could find their dog before something terrible happened. In fact imagine that for a moment, this poor homeless person down on their luck has to hide in the basement of an abandoned property just to survive and only has that dog for company, they keep it tethered just in case it runs off and gets them ousted/ it gets hurt. One day they get picked up by the police and charged and charged and while they wait in jail for a court hearing or whatever they know that the only other company they had is tied up in a basement all alone and as far as they know, nobody may ever find them.
The worst ones are the airmen/women/other folks (usually airmen as they move a lot) that just dump theirs out in a field somewhere. ...In country that's loaded with coyotes and rattlesnakes.
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