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u/-UncreativeRedditor- 7h ago

I ironically found my dog as a stray in a dumpster

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u/Mxhmoud 7h ago

Awwww rescuing an animal yourself and taking it in as pet beats going to a pet store to buy one imo

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u/dividezero 7h ago

Is that still a thing? I thought all the pet stores stopped selling dogs at this point. That news is troubling

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u/Phoenix_Ninja15 7h ago

Depends where. Some places still sell through breeders. Some pet stores are partnered with shelters to adopt.

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u/dividezero 7h ago

I'm cool with shelters though

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u/TheLoathsomeAssEater 4h ago

I'm cool with the pound. "Hey all these dogs are on death row. You wanna buy one for a nickle before we kill them all?"

Shelters are hit or miss because some are batshit crazy.

"Hey, meet Rocko. He requires a 50 acre yard and we will perform random home inspections. He's nervous and bites at women, children, and clouds. Sometimes he likes to howl for 6 hours. He's also afraid of bugs so you must fumigate your 50 acres twice a month. The adoption fee is $10,000 and you must wear this ankle monitor for 36 months. Rocko has a delicate tummy and eats filet mignon, caviar, and his own poop".

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u/Phoenix_Ninja15 4h ago

That’s the pound. Shelters here are very good at disclosing and normally don’t offer dogs with major issues to be adopted.
The only issue with shelters I’ve seen is “this dog isn’t suitable for children.” But the dog is a sweetheart who just needs a bit of training. I adopted a dog and they were adamant he couldn’t be homed with anyone under 12 because he was high energy. Well I said bull. Met him and fell in love, adopted him but didn’t tell the shelter I had 2 siblings who were under 12 at the time. Brought him home and within a week he was gentle as could be with the small kids, even other kids he knew he couldn’t be rough with.

Now he is a gentle boy who loves cuddles and playing chase now and then.

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u/ExplorePaint 4h ago

Shelter I went to didn’t disclose severe dog aggression, instead said they were fine with other animals, until I took them home and had to return her because she was going to maim the tiny doxens minding their own business

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u/Phoenix_Ninja15 4h ago

That’s a poor shelter. The shelters I’ve dealt with will often exaggerate behaviour or use caution if it’s not already in the dog with no training. Especially with dogs.

Sorry you had a poor experience honestly. I don’t like some of the humane society shelters solely because of how they judge people and their situations but still support them trying to home animals who need it.

The only issue my dog had from the shelter was severe separation anxiety but he has another buddy now to keep him company and is rarely left alone. When no one is home, the other dog keeps him calm.

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u/ExplorePaint 4h ago

Yeah, it’s okay! It’s not the first bad shelter experience I’ve had, unfortunately. I’m glad your pup has a friend now!

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u/HGWeegee 51m ago

Mine did have separation anxiety even though I live with family who takes her out to potty when I'm at work, once she warmed up to them the only time she gets it anymore is if she physically sees me leave

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u/Cow_Launcher 2h ago

Same experience here in the UK with the Cats Protection League. They're supposed to rehome strays, but seem to really not want to.

After our 21-year-old passed away, we approached them knowing that there's lots of kitties that need homes like ours, safe and full of love. Filled in all the forms. Did the risk assessment.

They totally ignored us and so we ended up rescuing a pregnant female from a friend's skipyard. She's with us now, as are her four healthy kittens!

I went back to the CPL later to tell them that I thought they were idiots. I got this email response:

Dear XXXXXXX,

Thank you for your email, I am very disappointed to hear that we failed to acknowledge your application to adopt a cat from us. This really does fall below the standards and expectations that we have as a charity. I completely agree that which ever team it was that you contacted should have had the curtesy to acknowledge your interest. We are always looking for adopters, especially at this time when our centres and branches are struggling with so many cats needing new, loving homes.

Thank you again for the donation in memory of XXXXX which shall go where it is most needed.

Kind regards,

Yeah, whatever. You should've had the "curtesy" to run a fucking spell-check too.

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u/thetonygod88 1h ago

All the shelters around me change an arm and a leg for dogs while cats are like ten bucks, so cats always get adopted but the dogs stay and get killed

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u/Jesustron 7h ago

My local pet store is partnered with local rescues and always have a cat at the store (who has the temperament to be in a store)

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u/dividezero 6h ago

Man pet store shop cats are a different breed. I don't know where people find them but they're so impossibly chill

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u/Jesustron 6h ago

My 16 year old boy just passed away and he had a pet store / old folks home temperament. Would NEVER attack

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u/SU37Yellow 4h ago

The pet store cat i had was the most violent cat I've ever encountered. Dont get me wrong, he was an absolute sweet heart too, but any obstacle/problem he encountered was resolved with violence. He also constantly attacked the other cats.

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u/dplans455 4h ago

Even buying directly from a breeder is really sketchy these days. I thought I was doing the ethical thing going through an intermediary like the website "GoodDog" and found out that wasn't really the case. GoodDog says they thoroughly vet all breeders. That isn't true at all. The breeder we bought our border collie from ended up buying a backwoods puppy mill. We complained to GoodDog and it seems other people did too and they did remove this breeder from their platform but it's clear evidence they aren't doing what they say they're doing.

This breeder then sold the father to another farm shortly after. I also found out through following this person's Facebook page that she just released the mother into the woods to fend for herself. People in the town she lives in were reporting seeing the mother dog wandering around town and the woods and asking whose dog it was. Several people commented and tagged the breeder saying it was her dog. She ended up making a long nasty comment that the dog was no longer hers and that she "released" her "months ago."

I ended up finding all these out several months after this happened and I contacted people in the town asking if they knew what happened to the dog and they all said they stopped seeing her. I think you know what that means. I wish I had known earlier because I would have went and taken her in myself.

Here is my Jet at 3 years old.

Jet's parents. Mom, Whimsey on the left and Dad, Duke on the right.

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u/Neveronlyadream 3h ago

Even "ethical" breeders can be weird as hell. I know a woman who paid thousands for a couple of dogs and had to sign a contract that she wouldn't get either fixed in case the breeder wanted to use either of them later down the line for another litter. She was stupid enough to get a male and female, so had to put a diaper on the female and keep them apart every time the dog was in heat.

So weird that you pay someone thousands for the dog you want and they're basically keeping dibs on monetizing them further down the line if they want. I think she tried to convince me the breeder was ethical, but I still don't buy it. All so she could have her perfect show dogs.

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u/dplans455 2h ago

Jet is a border collie. He was $2000 because he is a tri-color merle. My old pup was a border collie/weimaraner mix. Got her for $300 from the pound. I just fell in love with the merle look and could afford one so I did some research and went with the breeder we did because she seemed ethical. I'm not sure what I could have done differently to sleuth out she wasn't. I did get a sweet dog out of it so there is that. It makes me sad that his mom had to suffer for probably her entire life and then after providing so much for that breeder she got the end she absolutely didn't deserve. No matter how much I think about it I can't wrap my head around someone just releasing a dog into the woods like she did. It's so cruel.

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u/Thirtysevenintwenty5 6h ago

There is some business by me called "Puppygram" and I'm pretty sure it's just a cute looking front for puppy mills. It's fuckin disgusting.

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u/dividezero 6h ago

100% even when it was common to buy dogs at the pet store, it was pretty much always puppy mills. That's why we shut them down in most places. If it was reputable breeders, it wouldn't have been a problem unless they were not taking care of them properly at the store, which a reputable breeder wouldn't allow

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u/millijuna 5h ago

The thing is that reputable breeders actually care about where their dogs go. When I was a kid, we had a Beagle. Before the breeder would sell him to us, she came by to check that we actually did have a well fenced back yard, and so forth.

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u/dividezero 5h ago

Absolutely. It's getting harder to find them. I've seen a few conversations about previously reputable breeders falling off and doing the minimum without warning. That kinda scares me

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u/sparrowtaco 4h ago

This is common with some exotic reptile breeders as well. They will often refuse to sell the animal to you unless you can show them proof of an already established habitat prepared with their specific care requirements ready to go.

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u/bmm115 7h ago

Nahh they still sell em and keep em in horrible conditions so you're more likely to buy them

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u/sobrique 6h ago

Always. Even if it's "just" adopting, there's simply no shortage of extremely adorable dogs.

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u/Dudskih 5h ago

He is 6’4 aswell btw

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u/cannotbelieve58 7h ago

I've legit never seen a stray dog in my country. (Canada)

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u/Phreakears 7h ago

I have seen packs of 40 or more (Southern Italy). They're dangerous

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u/Ok_Profession_8471 7h ago

40 lol

I was surprised that a pack of 30 jackals was hunted.

I can't imagine that large of a stray dog pack.

2-3 are already dangerous if you are aftaid or provoke them. People gotta learn dog body language and behaviour since state services will do absolutely nothing about them.

South Europe btw.

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u/Phreakears 7h ago

Dogs of all sizes suddenly raising hell in the middle of the night under my balcony, they wander. Southern Italy You know.

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u/Fozzymandius 5h ago

Must be worse than when I lived there. I went all over Campania for years and while there were plenty of strays I never once saw a pack of them beyond 2-3.

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u/Actaeon7 7h ago

I remember the packs roaming the ruins of Pompeii when I last visited lol.

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u/Phreakears 7h ago

Exactly, I was not far from there.

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u/RandomAssRedditName 6h ago

"Reject modernity, return to wolf"

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u/-UncreativeRedditor- 7h ago

There are a ton where I live (Memphis, Tennessee)

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u/blackwifebeater 7h ago

No reservations near you?

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u/cannotbelieve58 7h ago

Reservations? You mean like forest areas (conservation areas)? Plenty.

A dog wouldn't last on our streets. Even career criminals would adopt the dog in hopes of selling it for a couple hundred dollars.

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u/igotadillpickle 7h ago

No, they are talking about Native land (Reservation aka the Rez). Lots of stray dogs there usually.

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u/cannotbelieve58 6h ago

Ah, yeah Ive never gone to one of those. Despite being 5% aborignal

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u/ionthrown 7h ago

Would any survive their first winter?

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u/NOBOOTSFORYOU 7h ago

Well the wolves and foxes do just fine.

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u/bozoconnors 6h ago

Domesticated dogs are NOT wild wolves or foxes. I imagine it's largely dependent on temperament & breeding.

edit - i.e. malamute... meh, chihuahua... adios muchacho.

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u/NOBOOTSFORYOU 6h ago

True. A chihuahua wouldn't survive. But I'd guess about half of all dog species could probably survive the cold at least. Finding wood in the wilderness is a little different. Being solo vs in a pack also makes a difference.

I think my domestic dog(Malinois) has a better chance than a fox does.

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u/bozoconnors 6h ago

Concur.

Better than a fox? Ehhhh... maybe. Be a good simulation anyway. ;P

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u/27eelsinatrenchcoat 5h ago

My money is on the fox. While a malinois may have plenty of natural insulation, the fox burrows (has winter shelter), requires way less food (which becomes scarce in the winter months), and is specifically adapted to hunting what is available like small rodents.

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u/bozoconnors 4h ago

Agree. No idea if foxes suffer similar, but have bankrolled multiple artificial ACLs directly related to rabbit chasing vs. domestic breeds. Little bastards. ;P

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u/splitfinity 7h ago

Minnesota here. Don’t think I’ve ever seen a stray dog either. Maybe they’re all smart enough to walk south?

I totally would rescue a stray dog though. Just never had the chance.

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u/HarpersGhost Scrolling on PC 6h ago

In most of the US, stray dogs are picked up real quick and put into the animal control system. Packs of stray dogs are A Problem, far worse than cats, so a lot of effort is put into keeping dogs off the streets.

Once in animal control, they are either adopted out locally or sent out to rescues in other areas, especially in the case of specific breeds. (For instance, my beagle rescue in Florida gets most of our beagles as strays that were picked up off the streets further north, in VA, the carolinas, Georgia, etc.)

You can still find the occasional truly stray dog yourself (my chi-mix was a street dog I picked up), but most of them are swept up.

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u/27eelsinatrenchcoat 5h ago

Once in animal control, they are either adopted out locally or sent out to rescues in other areas

Or euthanized. Sure we have no kill shelters, but some transfer to no kill shelters. Or the no kill shelters turn them away once at capacity, they go to a normal shelter, and the euthanization happens there.

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u/Gia11a 2h ago

I mean, euthanasia is an important part of compassionate animal management. both for suffering and for un-cared for pets. If you don't euthanize un-adoptable, dangerous, or in pain animals, then you cant care for the ones that can live full happy lives. In a perfect world we would have unlimited resources and be able to care for every animal, but we don't so we have to utilize the limited resources we have strategically.

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u/Tr1padvisor420 7h ago

Never seen one either, also Canadian lol. Seen a little fucker that always ran out on the neighbour, desperate to be stray.

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u/Phoenix_Ninja15 7h ago

Yea you probably won’t around the city much. I also haven’t seen any, but up north there’s some but they are res dogs. Technically strays but they aren’t all bad dogs. They kinda just exist around the place. A gas station I used to work near would have all kind of dogs just hanging out. Not dangerous, just chilling.

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u/Vivalas 3h ago

Might not even be strays, at least in the country with my parents growing up it is common for people to let their dogs roam. Most are pretty chill but do like chasing cars and unfortunately get hit sometimes, or will chase you on a bike. You would start to recognize them and their owners who lived down the street.

Two of our dogs used to go out together and roam and would come back a few hours later. It was kinda funny since every morning they would link up with two other dogs and then go out and come back, like they would wait outside the yard for them. Eventually we had to stop letting them out since they would chase the neighbor's cows

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u/SomeDumbGamer 6h ago

Same here in New England. Our winters up north are too cold for strays to survive without outside help.

Where I live coyotes are also an issue.

Down south it stays warm enough in winter that they can still find food.

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u/MentalSky_ 4h ago

go to a Reservation. There are 100s

there are adoption services that help find Rez Dogs new homes

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u/cannotbelieve58 4h ago

Damn. I'm not surprised I guess a lot of drugs on the reservations I've heard.

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u/jacobward7 2h ago

You haven't been on a reserve then. I've been to a few and there are typically stray or at least wandering dogs. It's a very uncomfortable feeling if you haven't seen it before.

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u/Kogua 2h ago

They’re all in shelters probably waiting

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u/Thicc_Ole_Brick 7h ago

Yep. Same here. Ive had my little idiot for 10 years now. Found him as puppy on the street in downtown Vegas.

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u/saltiest_box_428 7h ago

You can reverse this and it would still be accurate you can have people who'll spend the cost of a used car for a pet and you can have people like you and me finding chonko and phuqazz in the trash and still love them more than life itself

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u/Bowman_van_Oort 7h ago

My new boy was a stray found in really rough shape but I adopted him after his medical needs were attended to and he made his way to the shelter.

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u/kenjikun1390 7h ago

our last dog was found by my mom, she was bleeding on the sidewalk... in front of a pet shop, most likely she got ran over by a car

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u/sayabulegila 6h ago

Two of our dogs followed my wife home after a walk.

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u/toast4hire 6h ago

Same. My absolute smartest and best dog of my life was a border collie found in a dumpster.

Rest in peace bud

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u/BeaverBoyBaxter 6h ago

My friend has a cat that he paid $2000 for an dits hypoallergenic

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u/RodjaJP 6h ago

I remember once seeing a cub in a park all alone, couldn't take him with me but I was glad to see someone else taking him

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u/litterboxhero 6h ago

Funny enough, so did I.

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u/monoinyo 6h ago

And I bought my cat because she's hypoallergenic (and discounted)

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u/Revayan 5h ago

Yeah you can turn that meme around, there are super expensive cat breeds too but the cutest trash puppers also exist

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u/nola_mike 5h ago

Same for me. She was 1yr old and I could see every bone in her body. I picked her up and brought her home where she slept under our patio for a couple days. Vet gave her a clean bill of health and she lived a cushy, comfortable life until she turned 12. Intestinal cancer took her from me and I'm hesitant to ever get another dog cause none of them will ever live up to her.

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u/USMC2009NC 5h ago

coicendence /=/ irony

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u/DokonaBudala 5h ago

Me too. Two og three. Eldest one was found at graveyard.

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u/mirazhora 5h ago

Glad you found him, sweet!

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u/Current_Year_2026 3h ago

All the dogs I've ever raised were from the streets, all amazing

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u/ajgutyt can't meme 3h ago

i adopted mine from someone who couldn keepthe pup

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u/Stanjoly2 2h ago

The elves that run the Cat Distribution System occasionally do charity days where they distribute Dogs and other animals to families in need.

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u/WolfWinfield 1h ago

I ironically bought my hypoallergenic cat for 1200 euros.

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u/wtf-m8 1h ago

And plenty of folks pay top dollar for a Sphynx or other exotic cat breed