there is a dog breaking my heart right now.

brooklynleather

i can't sleep.

there is a dog who every few minutes or so cries loudly and frighteningly as if to say hey don't forget me, help me...

i can hear him as if he is sitting outside of my window even though i am on a 4th floor walk up.

i am on the northwest corner of of washington and prospect place.

please, if this is your dog, let him in!!

can anyone else hear the cries?

what can i do to help? i am not even sure where he is...he sounds lost, stuck, scared, something. please advise.

oiseau

call 311

rhodamine

i live in that same area. i heard the dog out my back window too... it sounded like someone was torturing him

i called 311, for whatever it might be worth...

dakotas way

It's just wrong to have an animal that may be treated unkindly. God, there are such neanderthal people out there in the world.
Did the dog stop crying that night and did anyone find out where it came from? Poor, poor dog.
I just don't get it. ](*,)

rhodamine

well, about 30 min after i called, it seemed to stop. who knows... i didnt hear it after that...

dakotas way

It was good of you both to care enough to call

izisharp

when i lived a shitty block in Williamsburg a few years back I often heard a getting whipped or beat, and once there was a tiny, malnourised dog chained to some cinderblocks in our backyard for an entire winters night. When we went to check on it it growled and barked at us, clearly a victim of abuse. ASPCA wasn't available via phone (it was a Sunday night), and by Monday morning the dog was gone.

People are scum!

brooklynleather

rhodamine - thank you for posting. i knew it didn't sound right, it really upset me. i never saw the dog but it sounded so close i can't figure it out.

dakotas way

It's just not right. Too bad you couldn't find the people who do things like this and do the same to them that they do to innocent and unprotected animals

qtrain

dakotas way wrote: It's just not right. Too bad you couldn't find the people who do things like this and do the same to them that they do to innocent and unprotected animals

I think your heart is in the wrong place.

dakotas way

No, my heart isn't in the wrong place. Of course, you would never really want to do that to any living creature. Even someone who would impart pain on anything else.
But as I've said so many times before on this site...if only everyone lived their lives by the golden rule the world would be a much better place.
And that has nothing to do with economic, racial or religious issues.
It has only to do with being a decent human being.

jesed

I don't know if this is the same dog, but I've been hearing a dog whining and barking for the past three days - I think their owners have left them outside. I live on Prospect Place, but my apartement is in the back of the building so I can see everyone's back yard of those people who live on Park Place. There appears to be a small dog wanting to get inside. From the back of the houses it's two over to the right from the building that recently had two or three floors added to the top of it....

dakotas way

Could it be that they went somewhere and just left the dog out there? I've heard of people thinking this is OK (which, of course, it's not) Anyway you could walk over and knock on some doors to ask? Alot to ask of you, but if it helps the animal.........Just in case it doesn't have water, food or shelter especially since it's supposed to rain all weekend.

jesed

Um, yeah I was kind of thinking they went away on vacation and left the dog outside. I work from home and my office window is directly looks over onto their yard. The dog seems pretty stressed and is walking around in circles by the door - and I haven't seen anyone out there for a couple days.

These are all assumptions of course. I would feel kind of weird going over there...

dakotas way

Don't ever doubt your gut instinct with something like this. Weird or not, you would just be a concerned neighbor. Maybe something happened to the person who lives there and they're hurt or any number of things. You sound like a caring person who would not forgive themselves if this dog died while someone was away because you felt weird knocking on a door. Maybe I'm kinda nuts, but I've left notes on car windows when animals are left in hot cars or called neighbors to educate (nicely) people who have left dogs tied out without shelter in sleet storms time after time. Really, who cares what they think of you? And if this hasn't happened before it could indicate something is wrong with someone inside the apartment. Not meaning to sound preachy at all, it just might be worth a trip around the block. [-o<

jesed

Yes, you're right - I didn't think about it that way. I'll head on over there in a bit.

dakotas way

Good luck

jesed

Yeah, there's definitely no one home. I wrang the doorbell and could hear their phone ringing. I also wrang the other doorbells in the same building and no one came to the door.

Hopefully everything's alright...

jesed

Well, it looks like there is someone home now. They appear to have another dog in which they are letting in and out, but the one that's been out for the past two days - is still outside, for whatever reason, they are keeping the dog from coming in. I called the ASPCA, but they left for the weekend. I called the 77th precinct but they don't "handle such things" - so looks like the dog is out of luck until their owners choose to do something...

dakotas way

It's really great you went the extra mile to try to help though. People are bizarre in how they think they should train dogs sometimes. Maybe they had an issue with the one outside. Where's Cesar Milano when you need him most???

whatchuwant

You should call animal contral AC&C- they work 7 days, from what I see.
AC&C — Brooklyn Animal Care Center
2336 Linden Boulevard
Brooklyn, NY 11208
(212) 788 4000
Shelter Hours: 8:00am to 8:00pm, 7 Days a Week
Adoption Hours: Noon to 7:00pm, 7 Days a Week
Closed on All Holidays
I would do this myself, but I'm out of the state right now...I really wish I were there though. I HATE people who don't respect animals and the thought of this being stuck outside (you KNOW he/she hasn't eaten this whole time....) it just makes me sick.

ana.log

the dog is being left on a fire escape on the 2nd floor of 418 St Marks. when I lived on Prospect and Washington I could see this from my window. I can't tell you how many times I called 311, 911 and the ASPCA. it never made any difference.