LOST DOG ON 7TH AVE!!

findcate · May 2006

There is a stray german shepherd type dog, yellow all over. Looks like an older dog. At approximately 8:00, I followed it for a few blocks but then it was walking away from me into traffic and it wouldn't stop. I think it would stop if i had had food.

I saw it around garfield and followed it to 3rd. It did stop to say hello to another dog but by the time i caught up it had moved on, so It looks tired and was wandering into the road, i had to run out to stop traffic. Is anyone missing a dog? what should i do?? i left a mssg with barc, they're closed mondays.

should I call animal care & control? this is from their FAQ on their website...do they kill strays after 48 hrs?

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What do I do if I found an animal?

The first thing to do is contact the shelter in your borough. An immediate review of 'lost animal' reports will take place. If a match to the found animal is not immediately made, a shelter staff person will take a report. If the finder is willing, we will ask him/her to care for the animal temporarily while we seek its owner(s). Otherwise, the shelter will hold the animal for 48 hours; if it has not been claimed in that time, it will be evaluated for placement. Advantages of having the finder care for the animal are allowing more time to reunite the lost pet with its owner and, failing that outcome, simplifying the adoption by the finder, if the finder so desires and the animal is suitable for adoption.

Is the AC&C a 'no-kill' shelter?

Because of its contractual obligations and its open admissions policy, the AC&C humanely euthanizes terminally ill, suffering and severely injured animals. In addition, animals, which have bitten or have been trained to attack others and have been judged by skilled behaviorists to be inappropriate for placement, are likewise humanely euthanized. Finally, as NYC's only open admissions shelter, at times an overpopulation of adoptable animals requires us to humanely euthanize animals after all adoption resources including foster care, other shelters and breed and other rescue groups have been exhausted.

jimbo79 · May 2006

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findcate · May 2006

i'm vegetarian. maybe he sensed that and so that's why he wouldn't stop for me. i went back & looked for him

poor dog. i don't know how people can abandon animals like that, he was clearly abandoned and disoriented--an older dog with no collar, well fed & gentle. people suck.

cat · May 2006

Subject: i don't quite understand...

not to make you feel badly, but food would be in order. people don't seem to know what to do in these situations. if it's a dog that looks non-threatening (i don't know much about dogs) or even if it does, what's the deal going in a deli and getting some food? you were clearly concerned and were trying to figure out options - i think food in this instance was the option. i hesitate to call nyc ac&c also but i truly don't know what the best thing to do is. maybe next time you could call housebroken on vanderbilt? maybe they have ideas. hopefully someone else intervened.
thanks for caring. i've been in these situations and it's hard in the moment, especially because sometimes no one else is paying attention -- and that in itself is shocking.

findcate · May 2006

yep, believe me, i'm all about feeding strays. i'm sure food would have gotten his attention. i was just trying to get him to stop for a second (he wouldn't) and trying not to scare him into the road, into traffic. i had left the house with my car keys (went to move my car at 8 am) but didn't bring my wallet. so i went home to get it, and of course when i went back the dog was long gone. what's housebroken, a local shelter?

cat · May 2006

Subject: a hard situation definitely...

vivian who owns housebroken was a cat sitter but she opened this store on vanderbilt with dog (and cat?) supplies but sort of upscale, not just a 'pet' store. I felt like she might know of options. but i don't think there are easy answers. i totally understand what you went through. i saw a black rottweiler trotting along on 5th avenue and president and went up to 6th ave, etc. a few months back and i didn't know what to do. a woman who knew about dogs called ac&c but she didn't know if the dog was friendly. i don't know why i didn't think to get food but people were (well, three people) so afraid so me, who knows close to nothing about dogs, got sort of traumatized by this. and then i didn't see the dog again.

anyway. i hope it ended happily. we didn't hear anything else. no signs in the area?

findcate · May 2006

i know, it's sad. i haven't seen signs in the area. i've looked on petfinder and ac&c website but haven't seen this dog. i definitely have a sense that this dog was gentle, older & lost. he was scared of me though, wouldn't stop & stayed half a block ahead of me. and when i went closer, he was wandering into the road and i didn't know what to do so i left and went home to get my wallet & try to call shelters...i probably should have just kept following him. i hope someone else did intervene.

cat · May 2006

Subject: what would be the perfect solution?

i feel your upset. i went through this with the black rottweiler who was then spotted in prospect heights! and i don't know what happened.

if the dog had been hit by a car, would we hear?

how far could the dog go before someone intervened? i see signs often for dogs that were rescued. i really think if the dog seemed older and friendly, someone would have helped. i guess that's just the hope you have to have at this point.

it's great you've been checking those sites. i would do that too. i have been in direct contact with a woman at ac&c who is very nice about noting if a dog or cat comes in. if you pm me, i could give you her email address, if you like.

it'd be great if someone else posted that they had seen the dog. dogs can go pretty far. did you feel like other people were taking note of this dog wandering ? you said the dog stopped to say hi to another dog, did that person notice?

i understand the dog was afraid of you and you had no money. i used to have to do the car moving thing at 8 a.m. so i understand.

you did what you could under the circumstances!

whyfi · May 2006

Vivian is great in helping to find homes for dogs. Unfortunately, we may have exhausted her dog rescue resources! After months of looking, we couldn't find a home for the dog we rescued... so she's sitting next to me, peacefully snoring, right now... then again, Lucy's a pit bull mix, and they can be a little tougher to place. We know that the ACC will immediately put down pits, a shepherd-type... who knows? If it stays there too long, certainly... if you should see the dog again, there's always the option of a dog rescue. People with land and a love for dogs will often take them in - often a donation helps. Sometimes they can place them with families, but if not, the dog can live out the rest of it's days there with the other dogs. It wouldn't be a bad life.

whyfi · May 2006

Any news? I talked to a girl today with a dog that she said she'd just rescued yesterday... shepherd-ish, tan, smaller - maybe 30-35 lbs, but it seemed young, under 2 years, I would guess... It didn't occur to me that this might be the dog until they had walked off... Oh, this was in PS @ Gorilla.

pitu lillet · May 2006

WhyFi wrote: We know that the ACC will immediately put down pits, a shepherd-type... who knows? If it stays there too long, certainly...

Are you sure about that? I was there (the Bklyn/Qns one) a few times two years ago and there were plenty of pits and pit mixes up for adoption, same dogs there for weeks.

The main vet was pretty committed to making it a no-kill situation. I don't know if she is still there, or if her boss is the same anymore, but they were pretty great dog rescue people. I fostered a pit mix out of there . . .

whyfi · May 2006

pitu lillet wrote: Are you sure about that? I was there (the Bklyn/Qns one) a few times two years ago and there were plenty of pits and pit mixes up for adoption, same dogs there for weeks.

The main vet was pretty committed to making it a no-kill situation. I don't know if she is still there, or if her boss is the same anymore, but they were pretty great dog rescue people. I fostered a pit mix out of there . . .

That's what we were told by people in the know when we found Lucy. One friend brought a pit there and was told that it wouldn't be a problem at all... she found out the next day that it was put down.

alafairnadia · May 2006

WhyFi wrote: [quote=pitu lillet]Are you sure about that? I was there (the Bklyn/Qns one) a few times two years ago and there were plenty of pits and pit mixes up for adoption, same dogs there for weeks.

The main vet was pretty committed to making it a no-kill situation. I don't know if she is still there, or if her boss is the same anymore, but they were pretty great dog rescue people. I fostered a pit mix out of there . . .

That's what we were told by people in the know when we found Lucy. One friend brought a pit there and was told that it wouldn't be a problem at all... she found out the next day that it was put down.

oh god! that's so horrible.

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