Can anyone REALLY be this stupid??? (have to vent)

Oh my goodness...how awful.  That poor dog.  Yes, people can REALLY be that clueless.

OMG! I don't know that I could've been that polite. My stomach is in knots just reading this. I take my girls to the groomer every week! How much pain must an animal endure in a lifetime????????????? It's just so WRONG!

     HOLY CRAP 

Ugh, what a moron. That poor little old dog.

Unfortunately, to answer your original question, YES, they can *be* that stupid.

Some people simply go thru life never ever re-evaluating a former decision and they just keep piling MORE bad decisions on top of them.

It's so hard to know *where* to stop them.  But unfortunately I think I may have stopped her at 'Wait a second -- LOOK AT HIM.  He might not enjoy being crated BUT he won't have to visit the vet again and again being all TORN UP.  Look at him -- he is NOT happy here and now -- he ***HURTS***.  Truly you *must* prevent it in future!  Why not ask Dr. ___ what HE thinks -- if crating this dog wouldn't be preferably to it getting so badly mauled by another - I'm sure he will be quite afraid to be with this other dog *alone* now."

Yeah, you risk the lady getting up and leaving -- and you also risk her not listening to a word you say.  In fact, people like that ARE as stupid as they are *because* they go thru life filtering out anything they don't *want* to hear. 

And folks, once again we have a HUGE example of why vets truly have it difficult sometimes -- because even THEY can't get thru to these people - I'd bet that's not the first time the dog was brought to the vet having been torn up -- and probably the vet has encouraged crating, etc. 

see, peta should exist for situations like THIS... but lets not go there.......

i see people like this all the time. heck i'm related to people like this!! my sisters - when they were younger- insisted on getting the same breed mentioned here because their uncle had one.... so their mom found a breeder -in Tennessee no less- bought a male and female puppy and had their cousins bring it to them in Florida.

I'm not really a small/fluffy dog lover.. ok i love them but i dont really want to own them... but i contradict myself by saying that. the weekends i came to visit my dad and sisters were spent mostly pitying and tending to the poor matted stinky dogs.... my sisters lived with those two pups 24/7 but when they got older and their coats grew out they lost interest in them. in fact my younger sister got fed up with hers and gave it to our other sister to feed and watch over - they didnt walk them, just let them out to potty then right back inside they went ((and they had a fenced in backyard!!!!)) the only thing they did for either of these dogs was to get them spayed and neutered...... however shortly after that the female developed skin problems and eventually went blind from the medication.. and she STINKS to high heaven. the whole house, clean as it is, smells like this dog. and the male had to be put to sleep a couple years ago because he had a massive tumor. i found that tumor and pointed it out to them when he was a young adult. they ignored it, said it was probably just fat - because he was fat- when i found it it was no bigger than a peanut... when the vet found it (after the dog stopped eating) it was blocking off his internal organs and pushing against his stomach.... by then it was too late for him.

soooooo...... yep.. i have no clue as to what you are talking about. people couldnt POSSIBLY be that dumb, could they?
 

A suggestion would be to call up the vet. Discribe the woman and explain what she was telling you. Tell them your concerns and you would feel better if they did a welfare check.

Most likely they will find the dogs in improper care and will suggest she sign one or both over to a rescue. You will be saving the doggies alot of grief and I am sure they will love you for it. To answer your question. Yes. Unfortionatly people can be this stupid!

 Jessie

calliecritturs

And folks, once again we have a HUGE example of why vets truly have it difficult sometimes -- because even THEY can't get thru to these people - I'd bet that's not the first time the dog was brought to the vet having been torn up -- and probably the vet has encouraged crating, etc. 

That's what I was thinking too. It must be extremely frustrating to try to help people take better care of their dogs when they're so set in their ways, they won't listen. I'm not sure I'd have the patience for it.

 Oh yes, the supply of people like her is endless!  Just imagine the poor vet who sees these people time after time after time...

cakana

calliecritturs

And folks, once again we have a HUGE example of why vets truly have it difficult sometimes -- because even THEY can't get thru to these people - I'd bet that's not the first time the dog was brought to the vet having been torn up -- and probably the vet has encouraged crating, etc. 

 

That's what I was thinking too. It must be extremely frustrating to try to help people take better care of their dogs when they're so set in their ways, they won't listen. I'm not sure I'd have the patience for it.

I'll admit to not knowing much about what vets can and can't do.  Can they not report someone like this?  It's obviously a case of gross neglect; she should get a visit from cruelty investigation.  Obviously she cares about the dog enough to bring it to the vet instead of trying to patch it up herself but she is horribly mis-informed on the proper BASIC care and treatment of her animals.

OP, did it seem like this person wasn't all right in the head?

She's probably completely sane -- just completely mis-informed.  She's probably a 'cat person' at heart or something - and that's not to knock cat people.  But they try to apply all the same 'rules' from one species to another never thinking it might *not* work.

I got so frustrated with a woman about a year ago -- one night David and I were out for dinner and found this sweet but TINY pom running in the middle of a humungously BUSY side road -- bumper to bumper traffic with this little bugger trying to run circles in the center of the road!!

David got on his hands and knees in that traffic to get hold of her and she had a phone number *scratched* into a St. Christopher medal on her collar.

Called them and they wanted ME to BRING the dog to them!  sheesh.  Actually it turned out to be to a neighbor's house.  But I wound up talking to the woman several times on the phone. 

She had been 'given' this dog -- and thot she was cute.  But the woman was used to having outdoor cats -- and just didn't see WHY dogs were any different!!  A cat knows to come home, why not a dog??

We're talking major large city here (Orlando, FL) with HUGE suburbia -- cars doing bumper to bumper traffic on 2 lane side roads abut 50 mph in the dark! 

We worried over that little thing for weeks -- and she called me TWICE MORE because the dog "got out" (she knew the d#)(*)*(% door wouldn't shut and saw no problem with the dog getting OUT of it!!) and what could she do??

I spelled c-r-a-t-e to her every way I could but ohhhhhh nooo it was MEAN.  Soooo scraping the dog up off the road isn't???

The dog went AWOL one more time and never returned.  It coulda been 'got' by a gator.  David and I drove the streets for miles around looking for a grease spot.  I CRIED (this wasn't even my dog - it wasn't even a dog I knew WELL!!! *sigh*)

I HOPE someone stole the dog.  Quite honestly -- I thot about it myself.  I'm sorry we ever called her that first evening. 

Same type of woman -- absolutely 'nice' but would NOT listen to me for anything.  She even knew something was 'wrong' but couldn't listen to reality. 

Sometimes I think if I hear "Well, we USED TO ...." or "Well, where *I* am from we never ...." one more time I'll slap someone.

This is 2008 folks ... doesn't the rest of the world know it?? (nooooooooo  of course not!)