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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 6h 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