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DrPunjab

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DrPunjab

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This is 100% serious, one of my good friends bought a foreclosed home, which was in disrepair and plans on flipping it. He does this for a living and is pretty good at it. He's shared stories of how people abandon pets in there (he has never seen it first hand) or how they damage the property intentionally (this he has seen first hand).

Today what he shared had both he and I in tears. I cannot understand why someone would do this to a little animal! The home had a real bad stench to it and a few pet urine stains so Mike was pulling up the carpet and laying down hardwood. He said there were obvious signs of a previous pet like chewed door jams and some white pet hairs in the carpet. He thought the carpet was the reason for the stench. He said he replaced all the flooring, repainted a few areas, and the stench still persisted. Mike said he went through the attic and crawlspace in depth thinking it may be a squirrel or perhaps a skunk which had died.

Well, fast forward to yesterday and Mike had finally given up and just figured it was a dead rat or something behind the wall. In the process of knocking down the kitchen wall to expand a room he noticed an area that looked like it had a new drywall and was a little bulged, under the counter. He figured water damage at one point and a shoddy home repair.

*** DO NOT READ PAST HERE IF YOU HAVE A WEAK STOMACH ***

So, he tears down the drywall the stench made him lose his lunch. He said as he removed the sheet rock a moist and decaying corpse of a dog, what looked to be a white terrier, fell to the ground. He said the drywall had scrapes and claw marks on it where the animal was sealed behind the sheet-rock and tried to claw it's way out. Of course it only had like 3" or so so it couldn't move very well at all. Mike said ultimately it died of dehydration and did not suffocate. He said it was probably a long and horrid death.

He has contacted law enforcement and they brushed it off a little, evidently they see abandoned pets from time to time in foreclosures but nothing like this! They said they'll try to work with the bank to find the previous owner and press animal cruelty charges.

Mike said this was clearly someones pet and it was actually buried alive along with a pet toy. There was no collar to be found but he said you could see around the scruff of the neck where it was used to wearing an ID collar. It did have a flea collar on.

HOW COULD SOMEONE DO THIS!??! Being a vet, I've seen some clear signs of animal abuse but nothing to this magnitude.

-Dr. Punjab

Dravin

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Well I imagine one puts the dog in the framing and then puts the drywall up. Or do you mean why would someone do that? Considering man's inhumanity to man, man's inhumanity to animals doesn't surprise me much anymore.

Some people are just messed in the head.

NeuroTypical

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How could someone do it? That's easy. The seeds of evil are present within the human race. The Natural Man is present within all of us. Maybe he was drunk or high. Maybe he wanted a way to hurt someone who loved the dog. Maybe he was still the same maturity level of young punks who drown cats in sacks.

It's a horrible thing. But people do horrible things on this earth. That's one reason why it's important we spread the gospel - so we can win against this stuff.

LM

Mahone

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This has also been posted on another forum somewhere, the contents of the message modified slightly. The person who posted the original message is seemingly not a vet, so not sure why it's been reposted here and modified *looks suspicious*

Anywho, the human race is, quite frankly, messed up. Humans as a whole have some serious psychological design flaws. This is your reason.

pam

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As the OP starts..this is 100% serious. We were led to believe this was a friend of yours. You are telling a story that you have no idea if it's the truth. That's misleading. The story would be sad IF we had references to prove this story. If not, I consider it just another one of the phony emails that goes around to woo sympathy points.

Melissa569

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Just sick, cold-hearted people. That's all I can say. And they are everywhere!

When I lived up in the countryside with my dad, our neighbor got angry because his wife and daughter left him. So he locked all their dogs and cats in the house, and set it on fire. Then he left.

Living in the coutnry, we would all ban together to fight off a fire (in addition to calling the fire department) because we were so far from town, it took them a while to get there. If we all didn't help, it would be far too late by the time help arrived, and the fire would spread to everyone else's homes too.

So we all went down to his house with our private water tanks and hoses, holses and shovels (for shoveling dirt and sand to put out flames) to help tame the fire a bit. We had to kick the door down to rescue the animals trapped inside-- they were going CRAZY, almost screaming like humans, it was a horrible sound....

Some lived, some did not. We tried, we really did. But the place was HOT and full of smoke, so we couldn't see much inside.. Or breathe very well. The smoke was so low, I had to tie a wet cloth around my nose and mouth, and crawl on my belly to grab hold of a terrified, trembling little puppy in the corner of the livingroom... We tried to coax him out, but he just wouldn't move. We didn't have much time, we had to work quickly, there were 2 propane tanks just outside the house, and we didn't want to be nearby when they finally blew...

We kept the puppy, my dad still has him 8 years later. We named him "Fire", because that's what brought him to us, and when I pet him that night, he left black smoke residue on my hand. Also, even after 4 baths, he still smelled like smoke, lol. I'll see if I can attach some photos of him, he's cute :)

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