Damn! This looks just like our dog. Virginia animal rescue believes hounds were dumped after hunting

[underpants]

Virginia animal rescue believes hounds were dumped after hunting season



https://www.wtkr.com/news/local-animal-rescue-overrun-by-hounds-they-believe-to-be-dumped-after-hunting-season

HAMPTON ROADS, Va. — Hounds are being dumped in the woods or on the side of the road to fend for themselves in rural Hampton Roads, according to officials with a Virginia animal rescue group.

“It’s calls, emails, Facebook messages, everything, probably 30 dogs today before I came to see you,” Linger said.

Linger said typically this happens between hunting seasons when the hounds may not perform up to the owner’s standard, so they are abandoned. She said animal shelters are completely overrun and have no space to take in the dogs.

"They do not get vet care, and they basically get them when they’re a puppy. They try to train them and run them a few times; if that dog is not running the way they want them to run, they cut them loose,” Linger said.

This is our boy doing his Super Dog thing

[secondwind]

1. The cruelest animal on the planet is the

human…….. 🤬

[Cracklin Charlie]

2. My neighbor has a hunting dog who won't hunt.

Did they abandon her when she couldn’t perform?

No, they got another hunting dog, and Bella is a treasured pet. She now has a younger brother, who goes off hunting five or six weekends every year.

[leftieNanner]

3. Our rescue boy is part hound

Part Great Dane we found out later! He's such a wonderful family member. (Except for the fact that he jumped on the bed at 4:30 this morning - all 77 pounds of him)

I cannot imagine how anyone could treat a dog like garbage. The people who do this who are the garbage.

This is so cruel.

[underpants]

4. Our boy was found by a road in a county near here

We were the first people to see him when the SPCA opened that day. I didn’t want a dog but now I can’t imagine not having him.

[leftieNanner]

5. Sweet

I know what you mean. After our Riley (GSD) died in 2019, we decided we wouldn't have any more dogs (HA!). Then I saw Snoopy on the shelter website and thought "I'll just go meet him." (HA again!)

The police spotted him tied to a tree - only 4 months old - in a homeless camp with no food or water. They confiscated him and now he's sleeping on the bed in our house. So glad I broke the 'no more dogs' rule!

[halfulglas]

6. This how you get those wild dog packs.

Dogs are natural pack animals and socialized dogs will join existing packs for survival and they then turn vicious because those are the rules of the pack.