Double Dumbass: "I think the dog parks are safe. I feel responsible for what happened to Luke. I should have been keeping my eye on him, and I should have left his collar on," she said.

The woman who lost her dog took off the dogs collar before letting it loose in the dog park?

I felt bad for her until I saw that. I hope she got fined.

xtex: Double Dumbass: "I think the dog parks are safe. I feel responsible for what happened to Luke. I should have been keeping my eye on him, and I should have left his collar on," she said.

Yeah, I'm having trouble comprehending this much stupid in one article.

Broken9754: Yeah, I'm having trouble comprehending this much stupid in one article.

I can only assume.. Florida?

Broken9754: xtex: Double Dumbass: "I think the dog parks are safe. I feel responsible for what happened to Luke. I should have been keeping my eye on him, and I should have left his collar on," she said.

Yeah, I'm having trouble comprehending this much stupid in one article.

And then the fact that she was paying so little attention that the dog managed to be taken out of the park.

I'm going to have to disagree with you, subby. Abandoning a dog at a dog park makes perfect sense - the abandoner knows that in a park full of dog lovers, the dumped pet will be well taken care of. A friend of mine has a boxer puppy that was dumped at PetsMart for the same reasons.

/it sounds like 'Luke' was better off being 'Jake'

Yeah, in this case the person who took the dog seems to be the better person for being a dog owner than the person who just forgets about her farking dog.

Broken9754: xtex: Double Dumbass: "I think the dog parks are safe. I feel responsible for what happened to Luke. I should have been keeping my eye on him, and I should have left his collar on," she said.

Yeah, I'm having trouble comprehending this much stupid in one article.

there's always enough stupid to go around

I picked up an abandoned dog in a park once... poor thing looked like he hadn't eaten in days. Picked him up, never looked back. Of course nobody came looking for him either.

Man, if I took my dog to a dog park, I'd have my eye on him the whole time - and I certainly wouldn't take his collar off.

Not too bright at all, but maybe she's learned a lesson from this.

The collar removal is the part that gets me. biatch needs a slappin'.

Who the fark takes their dog's collars off?

I agree with the people who are saying the woman who took off the collar is a dumbass. At the same time, you just don't take an "abandoned" dog and give it away without checking to see if someone owns it. The "Lost and Found" section of the newspapers has a "Found" section for a reason.

They are both dumbasses.

Frantic Freddie: Who the fark takes their dog's collars off?

In my family we do it for two reasons, during baths and when they've been bad (oddly it works). Otherwise, they're always on.

But yeah, at a dog park you'd definately want to leave the dog's collar on, if for no other reason to prevent such mind-numbing stupidity.

Who the fark takes a "lost" dog home and gives it away as a gift? Wouldn't it be decent to call the P.D. or Humane Society or at least notify the owners of the Dog Park?

This lady was just looking at a free dog when she found it. How do I know this? It was Milwaukee.... where everything not nailed down is free.

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"We're going to the dog park!!


I love that clip so much. So, so much.

Frantic Freddie: Who the fark takes their dog's collars off?

Not me. But at an off-leash area it's far from the weirdest thing I've heard. Many people's dogs don't even have collars as they prefer to use a leash that has an integral choke chain on the end rather than a clip. Do I do it? No. But many people do. What's stupid is finding a dog at an off leash area and assuming it has been dumped because it doesn't ahve a human up its ass.

at least (and i mean the very least) she owned up to it.
BUT......
FTFA
Lori and her friend, Shirley Newell, spent many of those days putting up posters and circulating letters about Luke's disappearance.
maybe she let her roomate/girlfriends dog go because she hoped it would go away. Then she had to act like she gave a damn.

/betcha I'm right

Frantic Freddie: Who the fark takes their dog's collars off?

Maybe somebody who has trained their dog properly.

I have a 100 lb dog who often does not wear a collar and owns no leash. She'll stay in unfenced front yard all day.

I have no patience for disobedient dogs or people who can only let their dogs off leash in a fenced in area.

You must be the kind of person who talks to their dog in baby voices and lets your dog lick your mouth.

FTA - Police told Lori that the new "owners" took Luke to a vet to be checked out and got him licensed. Lori had an ID microchip embedded under Luke's skin, but evidently no one scanned it. Neither the woman who took Luke nor her sister had seen any of the ads or posters seeking his return, they told police.


I knew those farking things were useless for precisely this reason... lazy farking people who won't do one damn thing more than specifically what's asked of them.

Well, that and the cock-knocker manufacturers are having an ongoing pissing contest to see whose proprietary system will take the market.

One in particular is extremely closed refusing to set their scanners up to read other chips and trying to prevent their chips from being readable by other scanners. Douchebags.

If there's anything that needs an open standard between manufacturers, it's something like this.

Great idea, but people (as usual) render it worthless due to laziness and greed.

Ringshadow
In my family we do it for two reasons, during baths and when they've been bad (oddly it works). Otherwise, they're always on.

But yeah, at a dog park you'd definately want to leave the dog's collar on, if for no other reason to prevent such mind-numbing stupidity.

Same thing here for the baths (infrequent since we live in the country),interesting way to discipline.

We make sure ours have their collars in case they get out (unlikely these days since one's blind & the other's arthritic),people shoot stray dogs here.

Well, I often take my Dog's collar off at the Dog Park. She is a 70 pound weim, she wrestles pretty rough with some 100 lb ridgebacks, a boxer and few other dogs and most try to catch her collar then work it for leverage to take her down since she is quicker than them.

I don't let her out of my sight, though and many of the people there, if not most, know who she is. She also has the underfed look, owing to most people expecting her to look like a fat lab.

I agree that taking the collar off was kind of dumb, but it's not that 'out there' in a fenced-in unleashed area.

I'm more amazed that someone could get her dog and leave with it before she noticed it missing. I take my dog to the dog park all the time, and while I don't watch my dog like a hawk, I do make a periodic visual check on him.

But, I still think the dognapper is the bigger moron... well, I don't actually think she's a moron, I think she's a farking crook.

I think she opted not to go around asking about the dog, because I think she was afraid she'd find the owner. I also wonder how she get out of there so fast if she really was looking for the owner.

It doesn't sound like she made any attempt at any point (either at the park or when she got home) to actually find out if the dog belonged to someone. I think she just wanted to take the goddamn dog, and so she did.

Frantic Freddie: Who the fark takes their dog's collars off?

In some situations it's the right thing to do--in a secure area it's safer because it won't get snagged on anything.


Gratuitous dog pic

Once, our dog ran away after we yelled at her for eating a bunch of sushi (expensive!) Got her feelings hurt, ran out the front door, and ran 2 miles to the dog park, where she waited next morning to be adopted by two lovely new people who clearly were going to feed her all the sushi she wanted.

Fortunately (or unfortunately, it you take Lady's point of view), these nice people answered our lost dog ad within 36 hours, gave her a bath and cared for her before we came to get her. They also fed her chopped sirloin and cookies.

When we came to get her, she couldn't decide whether she was happy to see us or not. That was almost 13 years ago, I think she still remembers how to get to that dog park.

Alaskanbigfoot: Maybe somebody who has trained their dog properly.

I have a 100 lb dog who often does not wear a collar and owns no leash. She'll stay in unfenced front yard all day.

I have no patience for disobedient dogs or people who can only let their dogs off leash in a fenced in area.

I'm all for well trained dogs, but some just aren't the type that will stay in an unfenced yard. The important thing is to recognize this and not let them wander the neighborhood. Especially without a collar. This is why dog parks are nice. No worries of the dog running off and getting shot/hit by a car/given away. But I'm probably just a shiatty dog owner who doesn't know how to train my pooch to stay in the yard.

Alaskanbigfoot - Maybe somebody who has trained their dog properly.

I have a 100 lb dog who often does not wear a collar and owns no leash. She'll stay in unfenced front yard all day.

I have no patience for disobedient dogs or people who can only let their dogs off leash in a fenced in area.

You must be the kind of person who talks to their dog in baby voices and lets your dog lick your mouth.


Leashes and collars are, for many people, precautions.

Precautions, by nature, are actions taken to minimize trouble in unforeseen circumstances.

I don't know how many lost or run over dog stories I've heard that begin with "I don't know what got into ___. Normally, he/she stays right ______!" (with me/in the yard/whatever)

My dog stays right with me, too... but I still keep him contained.

And yes, I do talk to him in baby voices and let him lick my mouth.

technicolor-misfit: It doesn't sound like she made any attempt at any point (either at the park or when she got home) to actually find out if the dog belonged to someone. I think she just wanted to take the goddamn dog, and so she did.

I agree, and I think she should be charged with a crime. She stole someones dog. I'm not buying the "I thought it was abandoned" thing.

Both of these people are 7 kinds of stupid. That said, if someone took one of my babies, I would feel like killing them.

/will find out next week if one of them had cancer, been dining on my fingernails.

No collar was dumb but the lady that 'found' the dog never called the PD or Humane Society before she gave it away to her family in Racine? That's pretty farking stupid and to me makes her the bigger butt.

You find an animal that looks well cared for you assume it's lost not abandoned and do the right thing. You try and find it's owners.

ne2d Gratuitous dog pic

That your dog? I love those soft and fuzzy jowls. Want to nuzzle them!

Okay, now that I've RTFA, who would think a dog inside a dog park was an abandoned dog to be shipped to Racine?

Dog thief. Arrest her.

Farkinson's Disease: Yeah, in this case the person who took the dog seems to be the better person for being a dog owner than the person who just forgets about her farking dog.

Hardly. the woman who took him from the park didn't make any effort whatsoever to find the owner. People who knew the dog thief came forward, so she must have known the owner was looking for the dog. The dog was micro-chipped and she didn't even ask the vet to check for one. She took the dog with no intention of giving it back to anyone. She probably justified it by concocting some story in her head about the dog being abandoned and abused and decided to do the self-righteous thing and take it without looking for the owner.

And she didn't forget about her dog, she lost him in the fog.

Oh, and since we're on the topic of dog parks...

If you've got an aggressive dog, the dog park is not the place to "socialize" it... particularly not when your idea of socializing it is 'stand there and do nothing.'

also:

If you've got an aggressive dog that keeps picking fights in the 25lb. and up section, the solution is NOT to bring it into the 25lb. and under section.

I take my dog to the dog park pretty often, and he's a very docile dog that loves to do nothing but run around and play chase, and far too often, there's some asshole whose dog is too aggressive and the owner is just like (lilting whiny falsetto) "Cocoa, stop... Cocoa, be nice..."

Today it was some guy whose boxer (well over the 25lb. limit) kept trying to cow Digby down and cut him off and nip at him...

She was "playing" in that she never drew blood, but she was playing way too roughly, and there were a number of times when Digby was trying to get to me because he was overwhelmed, and she kept cutting him off and knocking him down and nipping at his face. (he was so coated by snot and slobber by the time we left that the fur on his face was matted down and pasted to his skin)

The owner just kept going "I'm just trying to socialize her! She's just so excited to have someone to play with that she gets carried away!"

That's farking great, but if you're tryiong to socialize her, that means letting her know what's acceptable and what isn't. You wouldn't let her knock over someone's toddler and cut it off from its parents and nip at its face.

If your dog is playing too roughly or getting honestly aggressive, YOU'RE the one who's supposed to step in and scold it and remove it from the situation. I'm not supposed to have to go pick my dog up and hold him away from it because yours is getting "carried away."

(the farking thing even kept growling and jumping up and nipping at his legs while I was holding him... I had to fight the urge to give her a kick in the ass myself, but she WAS a sweet dog... She was just lacking training and guidance)

Technicolor, this is why you need a tazer.

Or at least pepper spray.

Small shot of hair spray right in the bad dog's face works too. Can say you were doing your hair and missed.

My dog was smarter than half of you people on Fark. I swear she could understand just about anything i said to her. Never left the yard either. More like a sister than a pet.

technicolor-misfit:
I knew those farking things were useless for precisely this reason... lazy farking people who won't do one damn thing more than specifically what's asked of them.

Well, that and the cock-knocker manufacturers are having an ongoing pissing contest to see whose proprietary system will take the market.

I wondered about this too. Seems like the thing to do would be to manufacture a reader that will read ALL microchips, advertise it as such, sell your own chips, Profit?

FTA - Police told Lori that the new "owners" took Luke to a vet to be checked out and got him licensed. Lori had an ID microchip embedded under Luke's skin, but evidently no one scanned it. Neither the woman who took Luke nor her sister had seen any of the ads or posters seeking his return, they told police.

technicolor-misfit: I knew those farking things were useless for precisely this reason... lazy farking people who won't do one damn thing more than specifically what's asked of them.

Well, that and the cock-knocker manufacturers are having an ongoing pissing contest to see whose proprietary system will take the market.

I wondered about that. See, if there's a policy that all dogs going to a vet will get scanned then that endangers the ability of informally "rescued" dogs to get vet care. Some people do make off with dogs from unsuitable homes. Yeah sometimes it's indeed unsuitable yet the owner would never give up the dog. The city's animal control is supposed to take dogs being treated inhumanely but it has to be REALLY bad and they won't just hand it over to the person who wants to rescue it.

Often it's not genuine abuse, just a sweet dog you've seen tied on rope (not illegal in most areas) and no one ever comes out to play with it. Week after week. Yoink!

If vets scan without being asked it would end up going right back to the owner who mistreated it. You'd think a neglectful owner wouldn't bother to claim but there are a lot of crazy people out there who don't get it.

technicolor-misfit: Alaskanbigfoot - Maybe somebody who has trained their dog properly.

I have a 100 lb dog who often does not wear a collar and owns no leash. She'll stay in unfenced front yard all day.

I have no patience for disobedient dogs or people who can only let their dogs off leash in a fenced in area.

You must be the kind of person who talks to their dog in baby voices and lets your dog lick your mouth.


An obedient dog left in the open of your front yard is still up for grabs if someone thinks it's been "abandoned" in your front yard. It is not responsible to leave them in the open like that without a collar, regardless of just how obedient that dog is. How dare you act like you are better than anybody else because your dog isn't allowed to be the companion that face-licking, tail-wagging with excitement over your baby talk dogs are supposed to be.

/open anus
//retract 10 foot pole

No Wisconsin tag yet?

Atypical Person Reading Fark - Technicolor, this is why you need a tazer.

Or at least pepper spray.

Small shot of hair spray right in the bad dog's face works too. Can say you were doing your hair and missed.


That's not a bad idea... It my be a little hard to sell because I'm bald and I've got a buzzcut. But then again, who cares! :)

sorry, that last post was aimed at Alaskanbigfoot, not technicolor-misfit.

I have a dog that runs right out the front door and thinks that it is cute... runs all over the neighborhood I never "let" her out... Previous owner got rid of her for the same reason I bet.

/loves my Phoebe
//was miss named brillant.

brownlady79 - An obedient dog left in the open of your front yard is still up for grabs if someone thinks it's been "abandoned" in your front yard. It is not responsible to leave them in the open like that without a collar, regardless of just how obedient that dog is. How dare you act like you are better than anybody else because your dog isn't allowed to be the companion that face-licking, tail-wagging with excitement over your baby talk dogs are supposed to be.

/open anus
//retract 10 foot pole


You misattributed Alaskanbigfoot's post to me... I was replying to him, and saying much the same thing you are.

"Just please give the dog back to those little girls."

Alaskanbigfoot
Maybe somebody who has trained their dog properly.

I have a 100 lb dog who often does not wear a collar and owns no leash. She'll stay in unfenced front yard all day.

I have no patience for disobedient dogs or people who can only let their dogs off leash in a fenced in area.

You must be the kind of person who talks to their dog in baby voices and lets your dog lick your mouth.


My dogs run 70-80 lbs.Glad to see you have a yard,we live in the country,no shortage of animals for ours & the neighbor's dogs to chase,so we keep the collars on them to ensure they won't get shot if they somehow manage to get away from us.
When they were young I taught them not to bite by showing my fist down their throat.They lick our toes in the morning while ew're fedding them.

Oznog - I wondered about that. See, if there's a policy that all dogs going to a vet will get scanned then that endangers the ability of informally "rescued" dogs to get vet care. Some people do make off with dogs from unsuitable homes. Yeah sometimes it's indeed unsuitable yet the owner would never give up the dog. The city's animal control is supposed to take dogs being treated inhumanely but it has to be REALLY bad and they won't just hand it over to the person who wants to rescue it.

Often it's not genuine abuse, just a sweet dog you've seen tied on rope (not illegal in most areas) and no one ever comes out to play with it. Week after week. Yoink!

If vets scan without being asked it would end up going right back to the owner who mistreated it. You'd think a neglectful owner wouldn't bother to claim but there are a lot of crazy people out there who don't get it.


Well, you and I are in big disagreement on this... I appreciate your concern and I know that your intentions are good, but I don't thinks it's yours or anybody else's business to go snatching someone's dogs because YOU don't approve of the way the owners are caring for it.

We have organizations and departments made up of trained professionals with spelled-out guidelines to make the determination of what's acceptable and what's not.

We don't need rogue vigilantes running around taking people's dogs because THEY don't like how they're being cared for.

When you accept that premise, then any asshole can snatch any dog and convince himself he's justified because he saw the owner smack it on the ass, or feed it 'unacceptable' food, or keep it in a kennel... and HE doesn't agree with it.

Not only do you not get to make the call on those things, there may be more going on with what you see than what you actually know about.

As far as I'm concerned, it's along the same lines of taking someone's kid because you don't think they're raising them properly. YOU aren't equipped or empowered to properly investigate and make that call.

brownlady79: technicolor-misfit: Alaskanbigfoot - Maybe somebody who has trained their dog properly.

I have a 100 lb dog who often does not wear a collar and owns no leash. She'll stay in unfenced front yard all day.

I have no patience for disobedient dogs or people who can only let their dogs off leash in a fenced in area.

You must be the kind of person who talks to their dog in baby voices and lets your dog lick your mouth.


An obedient dog left in the open of your front yard is still up for grabs if someone thinks it's been "abandoned" in your front yard. It is not responsible to leave them in the open like that without a collar, regardless of just how obedient that dog is. How dare you act like you are better than anybody else because your dog isn't allowed to be the companion that face-licking, tail-wagging with excitement over your baby talk dogs are supposed to be.

/open anus
//retract 10 foot pole

My dog is up for grabs right now.

Feel free to try and take her. Good Luck.

When I got her from the pound as a abused stray she'd run for miles every chance she got.

With simple psychology and understanding of how dogs think training them is simple.

I've had 4 dogs in my life, none have required constant leashing.

All of my friends have dogs and magically they hang out w/ out leashes and choke chains.

I hope my dog craps in your yard

Alaskanbigfoot: I hope my dog craps in your yard

By your own argument, I don't see how that would be possible.

Alaskanbigfoot: I've had 4 dogs in my life, none have required constant leashing.

Congratufarkinglations.

Not all dogs work that way.

Asshats that think like you do are part of the problem.

I hope your dog craps in my yard, too. I will return it. With interest.

Some thoughts-
How big is this dog park? Is it on a half-acre or is it a big park that has a fence around it to make it dog friendly? If the dog is well behaved even letting the dog wander the park while your shopping wouldn't be really irresponsible (depending on the parks rules.)

Sometimes it's easier to take the collar off than unhitching the leash.

The dog had an ID chip. The vet should have checked it. The only reason they wouldn't I can think of is that the dog-napper told a cover story.

There was a fence.

The person who took the dog could have called the police if she really thought the dog was abandoned. Yes abandoning a dog at a dog park would be a relatively safe way to make sure it got a new home, but so would taking it to a shelter.

Someone who wasn't stealing the dog would have put a 'found dog' sign up at the dog park where the dog was found.