What if you know some one who does not take care of there pet?

Question

The people next to my house has a dog and my three boys love this dog the people never come over her to get him or feed him. I know he has never been to the vet. Is there anything i can do to try to get this dog for my boys. My boys are 13,7,6 and this dog they named Jake.

Answer 1

WEll i would call A humaine society...because they arn't caring for their pet and isn't bringing him to the vet....so call the closest humaine society...and tell them the problem...and maybe you will be able to adopt him!

Good Luck!

Answer 2

Whenever somebody mistreats their animal, that is animal abuse and is not legal.

The first thing you need to do is call Animal Control.

You should have a metropolitan animal shelter, so if you don't already know the phone number, Google "your city, your state animal shelter".

Call them and say that your neighbor has been mistreating their dog.

They need to come take care of it, and they will do what they need to do to get that dog out of the unsafe environment.

Then, they'll take it to the shelter and give it the care it needs, including a micro-chip, and the vaccines and medicines it needs.

Tell them that you would like to purchase the dog and ask if you can put him on hold once they have finished everything they need to do with him.

It is important that you do not just offer to buy the dog from your neighbor.

That other answerer was wrong.

That is wrong for a couple reasons.

1.  You don't know if that dog has any illnesses, fleas, or anything wrong with it.  If it is never fed and has never been to the vet, it is malnourished and is not up to date on it's vaccines.  The animal shelter should take care of that.

2.  When people get cited for animal abuse, they are not able to get animals as easily as other people.  They are put under careful watch by Animal Control.  So, even if you were able to buy the dog and saved that animal, you may be hurting other animals because that person could easily go get another dog.

3.  Your neighbor may have other abused animals within the house, and Animal Control will be able to take care of those.

4.  You may offend your neighbor and they won't give you the dog anyway.  People are weird like that.

Thank you for helping out an animal in need.

Edit:

If you call Animal Control, those people can't take back their dog.

Please, do call them, because they need to be aware that your neighbors are animal abusers.

If you don't call them, it will be your fault that other animals get abused because you did not report them.

Answer 3

Why don't you offer to buy him?

Call animal control on the guy if he isn't taking care of his dog.