Bums and dogs...

Originally Posted by Hepheastus420

And another thing that cracks me up is how you guys think of dogs like gods... You're like fuck the hobo, look at the dog.

Lets look at it a different way. I'm sure that hobo in the sympathy pic would rather be in a house, would rather be clean, and eating real food right? Well then I see nothing wrong with getting a dog off the street into better living conditions. Man, I have no idea wher some of y'all's logic comes from.


In other words, the hobo would be happy as fuck to get picked up and moved into a new home.. So would the dog.

It would just be selfish of a hobo to drag a dog down with him/her. Fuck the hobo if he/she is that selfish.

I have more empathy for dogs and animals in general than I do humans, I can't help it. When I hear about murders, I don't really feel much but animals have such a pureness about them that I can't help but to chose them over humans.

Oh my; this thread is off to a rocky start.

I voted "undecided" because I am loath to judge the situation without having all the facts.
But I am leaning toward "no". I would have left the pair together.

I would be very leery of simply taking anyone's pet without mutual consent.
Iirc the homeless guy in the previous thread was not an obvious drunk or druggie.
So it is possible that the benefit to the guy exceeded the hardship on the dog.
Also, as a general moral principle ... humans first! I do not subscribe to the PETA or "deep ecology" mentality that places "natural" creatures ahead of humans in value and dignity. Guess I'm a human chauvinist, which is odd for a bear. cn

I don't see anything rocky, looking smooth (pun).

That is what dogs are meant for, to keep us company and like I said in the other thread, it could be the only thing keeping the guy sane.

Originally Posted by Trolling

I don't see anything rocky, looking smooth (pun).

That is what dogs are meant for, to keep us company and like I said in the other thread, it could be the only thing keeping the guy sane.

That, and having no guilt about disappearing the yucky food under the table when Mom wasn't looking. cn

Oh yeah, they're awesome garbage disposals. I never scrape anything in the trash, I eat what's on the plate and let them lick it clean, no need to rinse.

pay the bum to have sex with the dog, then take the dog on the pretense that it is being abused. bum has some dough, and you have a legitimate reason to take the dog.

problem?

This is a great topic but I agree we need more facts.

First off in his OP srh stated he had seen the dog tied up to the guys bike every NIGHT, I just read the entire thread and I didn't see a post where srh said the dog baked in the sun. If so, can someone please give me a post number, I must have missed it. But if not this was an assumption someone threw out there. Who knows, during the day maybe the guy takes the dog to a shaded dog park with a water source? That dog just doesn't look in that bad of shape for the living conditions being described, mainly by others, while srh just curses everybody. There's too many holes in this story for me.

But I do want to add, srh, if that dogs conditions were that bad and he was abused then I do think you did the right thing, to a point. I believe you should have worked out a deal with the man or let the SPCA deal with it and adopt it from them. At least let the man say goodbye to his only and best friend.

Originally Posted by imchucky666

OK, let's look at it another way. the dog has no choice persay, whether he gets a "home" or not. I see what you mean, nobody ever WANTS to be a streetperson, but people have many more options to eat or keep out of the weather. I don't think a person that sits holding a sign is trying to better or help themselves, but an animal will approach people, find other animals, even go through garbage cans trying to survive. If you translate people/dog, I think the dog is trying harder than the people.

The dog is being forced to live in those conditions. He'd have a better chance of survival if he wasn't being tied up to a basket in the sun.

I see how you believe dogs try much harder than people but that's not the point. My point is that I'm pretty sure the dog loves his new place and any street dog would love to be put in a new place with better living conditions.. Much like a homeless person would.