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[cyprusgrump]

Perhaps all of you animal lovers can clarify something for me as I am just an ignorant, animal killing Brit - a cold-blooded murderer in fact...?

Somebody has today dumped a hunting dog in my road. It has happened many times before – sometimes a crate of puppies, sometimes full-grown dogs. This one is full grown. I guess we’ve had about twenty since we have been here - it is incredibly expensive both emotionally and financially...

I would normally take the dog in feed it, notify the authorities and try to re-home it if possible. If nobody claims it (as is normally the case) I take them to the animal sanctuary where in all likelihood it will be destroyed – the volunteers do amazing work there and try to do the best for the animals but they can't save them all, they simply have too many…

But perhaps I should just nature take its course…?

I should ignore it and leave it to have a natural death – either starving to death or dying of dehydration? Or it might be lucky and suffer a quick death under the wheels of a car (hopefully no passengers will be injured)… It might even attack one of the local farmer's goats – he will then poison the carcase with Lanate and the dog will suffer a terrible, painful death… some other pets in the area are also likely to suffer the same fate…

I can’t decide…

[CBBB]

Perhaps all of you animal lovers can clarify something for me as I am just an ignorant, animal killing Brit - a cold-blooded murderer in fact...?

Somebody has today dumped a hunting dog in my road. It has happened many times before – sometimes a crate of puppies, sometimes full-grown dogs. This one is full grown. I guess we’ve had about twenty since we have been here - it is incredibly expensive both emotionally and financially...

I would normally take the dog in feed it, notify the authorities and try to re-home it if possible. If nobody claims it (as is normally the case) I take them to the animal sanctuary where in all likelihood it will be destroyed – the volunteers do amazing work there and try to do the best for the animals but they can't save them all, they simply have too many…

But perhaps I should just nature take its course…?

I should ignore it and leave it to have a natural death – either starving to death or dying of dehydration? Or it might be lucky and suffer a quick death under the wheels of a car (hopefully no passengers will be injured)… It might even attack one of the local farmer's goats – he will then poison the carcase with Lanate and the dog will suffer a terrible, painful death… some other pets in the area are also likely to suffer the same fate…

I can’t decide…

Turn the bucket round, then you won't be able to see it. Problem solved!

[Sotos]

Perhaps all of you animal lovers can clarify something for me as I am just an ignorant, animal killing Brit - a cold-blooded murderer in fact...?

Somebody has today dumped a hunting dog in my road. It has happened many times before – sometimes a crate of puppies, sometimes full-grown dogs. This one is full grown. I guess we’ve had about twenty since we have been here - it is incredibly expensive both emotionally and financially...

I would normally take the dog in feed it, notify the authorities and try to re-home it if possible. If nobody claims it (as is normally the case) I take them to the animal sanctuary where in all likelihood it will be destroyed – the volunteers do amazing work there and try to do the best for the animals but they can't save them all, they simply have too many…

But perhaps I should just nature take its course…?

I should ignore it and leave it to have a natural death – either starving to death or dying of dehydration? Or it might be lucky and suffer a quick death under the wheels of a car (hopefully no passengers will be injured)… It might even attack one of the local farmer's goats – he will then poison the carcase with Lanate and the dog will suffer a terrible, painful death… some other pets in the area are also likely to suffer the same fate…

I can’t decide…

Dogs are a different case from cats. "Most breeds of dogs are at most a few hundred years old, having been artificially selected for particular morphologies and behaviors by people for specific functional roles." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog ... not to mention that most of those breeds were imported to Cyprus the last few decades. So those dogs are not part of the nature of Cyprus like the cats which have been on this island for 1000s of years.

Traditionally, historians tended to think that ancient Egypt was the site of cat domestication, owing to the clear depictions of house cats in Egyptian paintings about 3,600 years old.[4] However, in 2004, a Neolithic grave was excavated in Shillourokambos, Cyprus, that contained the skeletons, laid close to one another, of both a human and a cat. The grave is estimated to be 9,500 years old, pushing back the earliest known feline–human association significantly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat

[Tim Drayton]

Hmmm. So it seems that the Choirokoitians were cat lovers. Any resident Choirokoitians care to comment on that?

[Get Real!]

Somebody has today dumped a hunting dog in my road. It has happened many times before – sometimes a crate of puppies, sometimes full-grown dogs.

How come people keep “dumping” dogs in your road but they never do in mine!

Maybe what you meant to say was…. “I saw a dog walk past my house which looked stray/abandoned”.


Having said that dogs should not be confused with cats because they cannot fend for themselves and definitely need humans to survive.

Dog shelters and such places are appreciated but feral cats should not be interfered with.

[Get Real!]

Hmmm. So it seems that the Choirokoitians were cat lovers. Any resident Choirokoitians care to comment on that?

I hope you don’t assume that the ancients had a Flintstones-like sofa onto which the cats sat with their masters in those round little huts!

Cats would’ve wondered in and around ancient Choirokitia feeding on rodents, insects, and scraps much like they do today, but I very much doubt they wore pretty collars and dined on Friskies.

[kurupetos]

Hmmm. So it seems that the Choirokoitians were cat lovers. Any resident Choirokoitians care to comment on that?

I hope you don’t assume that the ancients had a Flintstones-like sofa onto which the cats sat with their masters in those round little huts!

Cats would’ve wondered in and around ancient Choirokitia feeding on rodents, insects, and scraps much like they do today, but I very much doubt they wore pretty collars and dined on Friskies.

You are right, Brits are destroying the ecosystem.

[cyprusgrump]

Somebody has today dumped a hunting dog in my road. It has happened many times before – sometimes a crate of puppies, sometimes full-grown dogs.

How come people keep “dumping” dogs in your road but they never do in mine!

Maybe what you meant to say was…. “I saw a dog walk past my house which looked stray/abandoned”.

You’re probably right…

I expect these cheeky little urchins dragged a crate up my road between them, climbed in and pulled a towel over their heads ready to jump out and surprise me when I walked Skilos…



Sadly, you can’t see their sister… she was too far gone by the time we found them…

I did rush them all to the vet who tried to save her but he could not. I guess as Sotos said the cruel, heartless bastard was only interested in the revenue he could receive from her and not saving her life….

We hand-reared them – feeding them with a syringe…



Luckily we did eventually manage to re-home all three of them, fine dogs that they turned out to be. They were chipped, inoculated and had everything else they needed at our expense…



Which does, I suppose prove what cold, heartless, cold-blooded murderers all of us ex-pats are…?

Don't bother replying - I won't be posting here again.

[repulsewarrior]

...fine dogs, staight backs.

[Get Real!]

Grumpy, earlier you said...

Somebody has today dumped a hunting dog in my road.

...and now you've posted a photo of a bucket of puppies.

I ask... how does one go about "dumping" a grown dog and make it stay in a specific spot so that you can then describe it as a dumping?

Was it tied to your fence? Did they put a big rock on top if it?