2Hope4
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Since I was born and raised in the area where Erica lived, I only brought the dog situation up because so many of you were worried about the dogs left at the Parsons, maybe even suggesting calling animal control. You would need to call animal control on at least 75% of dog owners in the rural areas in that case and they would ignore the call. Many of my relatives and friends raised packs of hunting dogs and most people keep their pet dogs outdoors inside a fence. I was just trying to explain that it was more normal for dogs to be left outside in rural areas around here
MY adult kids and I do live in the Charlotte-Asheville area. My daughter, who is such a big animal lover that she climbed a large hollow oak tree to rescue 3 baby orphaned raccoons, took 3 months of searching to find a place to live with her 90 pound sweet well trained Lab(stops and goes on command with no leach). Most landlords in this region don't want dogs inside dwellings, especially the larger dogs.
Anyway, it looks like my reassurance was taken as something else. I was just trying to assure you guys that dogs in a fence with food and water are usually well cared for and not to be concerned about them as it is normal and healthy for this area.
Thanks! It's been my experience, while working in rescue for years, that NC is VERY lax on animal welfare laws, and on breeding. I know for a fact that the rescue I work with has pulled dogs from NC pound for adoption here in VA. The majority of NC's animal control facilities, aka the pound, are not no kill, and in fact have a very high kill rate. That won't change until harsher laws are put into place on the breeding, IMO. It's also a known fact within this area, that breeders here will often go to NC and buy their 'stock' because the dogs are cheaper. Sometimes the breeders will buy the mother and pups! Just irritates me, and really isn't a huge part of this case, other than the Parsonses appear to be backyard breeders. In my view, those types rarely care about the hereditary problems within the breeds, instead focus more on the $$$$$ those dogs can bring in. Once those vital years of reproducing are over, or the dogs enter into the age of producing smaller litters, they are dumped at the pound!