I rescued a dog

  On 7/1/2009 at 3:59 PM, lumpenprol said:

alternately, you could come up with a novel way to euthanize it and congratulate yourself on sparing it from needless suffering

 

 

 

 

one of my co-workers visited me in Shanghai and became some sort of pet saviour. The first week he picks up a stray kitten from a nearby park, brings it back to the office. A week later, he kidnaps a (clearly) stray dog that was just kind of trotting around sniffing garbage and minding his own business. So fastforward a few more weeks, the cat has been living in a cardboard box in my apartment, shitting and pissing in the box and stinking the place up. The dog also reeks of dog. My friend has this grandiose plan to return to the US with both the cat and dog. Of course he never bothered to check regulations BEFORE he "rescued" the animals from their fate - turns out it's a huge hassle and expensive to boot. So the kitten dies of some kitten disease, and before my friend leaves he forces the dog upon one of our Chinese employees, who says he has a friend who could take him in. Have no idea how the dog is doing now, and guess what, after returning to the US my co-worker never asked.

I'm really surprised there are strays running around in Shanghai... you'd think the restaurants would be out looking for their dailies for the lunch rush...

find out if the dog is familiar with excel. when i find animals walking around i put them to work. i had a gerbil file my taxes last year.

  On 7/1/2009 at 1:56 PM, Iain C said:

"I don't know if anybody knows what the apt's I live in are like, but it's basically like a three-story ghetto/nursing home."

 

Oh OK, everyone except you in your building is too poor/black to care for a dog. Get a load of yourself, man. Do you really live in such fear of your neighbours?

took the words out of my mouth. that has to be the most pathetic reason not to look for the owners.

then again, it is scientific fact that 90% of dogs owned by black or old people are either shot, raped or mistakenly put in a tumble dryer.

Conversely, only 10% of animals owned by the wealthy are turned into clothing.

  On 7/1/2009 at 5:19 PM, idrn said:

took the words out of my mouth. that has to be the most pathetic reason not to look for the owners.

 

then again, it is scientific fact that 90% of dogs owned by black or old people are either shot, raped or mistakenly put in a tumble dryer.

  On 7/1/2009 at 2:18 AM, vasio said:

It's obviosly an handicap otherwise Sub-Saharan Africa wouldn't be the shithole it is. If you dipshits actually knew blacks you would know they go apeshit in the summer.

I tried to rescue a bird that had a broken leg one day. It was sitting on the beach, and the tide was coming in. I called animal rescue [even though I knew they would probably just kill it anyway since it was cheaper than to try and patch up its leg], but I waited like an hour and a half in the rain for those fuckers to show up and they never did.

Then the tide came in and swept the bird away.

R.I.P.

Found the dog a home, so this is all a moot point now.

a home or it's home ?

  On 7/1/2009 at 11:02 PM, yek said:

a home or it's home ?

its

  On 7/1/2009 at 10:34 PM, OneToThirtySix said:

Found the dog a home, so this is all a moot point now.

"Already sold the watch I stole, so whether anyone misses it is a moot point now"

  On 7/1/2009 at 11:20 PM, Braintree said:

its

i'm pretty sure it's apostrophe because it's possessive

"It" never has a possessive

What I meant was, never has a possessive apostrophe!

  On 7/1/2009 at 8:30 PM, Braintree said:

I tried to rescue a bird that had a broken leg one day. It was sitting on the beach, and the tide was coming in. I called animal rescue [even though I knew they would probably just kill it anyway since it was cheaper than to try and patch up its leg], but I waited like an hour and a half in the rain for those fuckers to show up and they never did.

 

Then the tide came in and swept the bird away.

 

R.I.P.

What kept you from at least moving the bird so it didn't get swept away, and maybe trying to take the bird to a shelter yourself instead of calling animal rescue to come for it?

Why aren't you helping the bird?

Did you get the chance to take a picture of it?

  On 7/1/2009 at 11:54 PM, yek said:

i'm pretty sure it's apostrophe because it's possessive

How are those Canadian schools working out for you?

  On 7/2/2009 at 3:35 AM, Braintree said:

How are those Canadian schools working out for you?

tho'se

  On 7/2/2009 at 12:29 AM, 277: 930-933 said:

What kept you from at least moving the bird so it didn't get swept away, and maybe trying to take the bird to a shelter yourself instead of calling animal rescue to come for it?

Why aren't you helping the bird?

The bird had this really long reach and pecked at anything that came within a three foot radius. I didn't have a stick or anything to move it with, either. I just went for a walk on the beach and happened upon it. That thing would have tore my hands up. I mean, I would have loved to have helped the poor thing, but I'm not going to sacrifice my hands to do it.

  On 7/1/2009 at 11:02 PM, yek said:

a home or it's home ?

The dog is home. As a side note, she didn't eliminate for nine hours after having free access to food and water, a good indicator of dehydration and starvation.

Doooog thieeeeef....

  On 7/2/2009 at 11:04 PM, Iain C said:

Doooog thieeeeef....

In two days I am going to celebrate not having to do what you tell me.

What is it, your 18th birthday already?

  On 7/2/2009 at 11:07 PM, Iain C said:

What is it, your 18th birthday already?

"You ain't mah mama, you ain't mah daddy, you ain't mah pimp!"

  On 7/2/2009 at 3:35 AM, Braintree said:

How are those Canadian schools working out for you?

i've probably forgotten more than 50 percent of the stuff i learnt in school, so...