What would you do?

Wonder if the Sunflower seeds would work on dogs! LOL

Isn't it amazing what treatments there are out there for our animals that don't cost the Earth and are quite natural feedstuffs?

I'm not baaaaaaaa'ing, but I do know exactly what you were saying in your replies. It's not simply a case of a thin dog. It's a thin OLD dog who possibly has other health issues aside from the arthritis.

Whilst one person can selflessly do the honourable thing and end their animal's suffering, there are always more people who just can't bring themselves to part with their pets and have the emotional responsibility of being the one who decided to end their life. I suspect this is one of the reasons why this man hasn't taken his dog to the vets. Not out of neglect, but out of a real fear for what the vet may suggest. He's clearly not ready to let go. Right or wrong, it's his choice to make.
 
Might give them lovely feet and a shiny coat, LOL!!

Actually my Daisy-dog eats them from the horse buckets.......I'll let you know how she looks after a few more weeks on them
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I see what oneofthepack is trying to say as the dog has seen better days. We had a 17 year old lurcher who was deaf, almost blind, like a rake and had lumps around her nipples/under her stomach. She was like this for the last year or two of her life, because unfortunately, that is what hapens to old dogs. She wore a modified one of my dad's jumpers to go in her kennel when it was cold-ish, slept indoors when it was freezing and despite being old, ate like a horse, wagged her tail, came skipping over for cuddles and was still our lovely pet. However i do think she was possibly in a worse looking state than oneofthepack describes and that oneofthepackwould have reported her.
Before I owned my pony he was kept out all of his life and during a mini epidemic 12 years ago, caught strangles. He had unlimited grazing, hay and a 60x40m hayshed for shelter, so YO was advised by the vet to leave him and 2 others out, as they had never been in and bringing them in would be stressful for them We were constantly checking them and later cleaning their burst abcesses. All 3 were in otherwise lovely condition but one do gooder (mind you she didnt have the courtesy to speak to YO first) from the next yard along the road whose horse was wrapped up in its stable, having already had strangles, decided to report YO for cruelty. The RSPCA duly came, checked horses and called the vet in question who repeated his advice.
The RSPCA were happy and said everything was great, but 12 years later I am still angry and bitter toward that woman and wouldnt pee on her if she were on fire.
Oneofthepack, if you do report your neighbour and the RSPCA agree, fair enough, but I would be careful as you have already pre warned your neighbour and if the RSPCA think everything is in hand he will be so so so angry, and as a neighbour that is not a nice situation to be in.
 
Granted I'll give you that you have made fair and reasonable points there. The RSPCA here in GB though, I believe, are not for looking for stray dogs. They mainly deal with reported neglect and such cases. I wont go any further into comment here as I don't want to appear to be making judgements on another issues that I have no knowledge of
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Do believe that OOTP said the man has openly told her the dog has not seen the vet. But any way if the man is approached by the RSPCA and is getting "proper" treatment for the dog then he should be able to tell them and the RSPCA will then leave him be. Having a very disgruntled neighbour is something OOTP will have to decide if she wants to live with.
 
I have seen other dogs in poor conditions but the owners were getting proper treatment. Dogs get old and sick.........my lurcher is undergoing loads of investigation at the moment because he has a back problem that's causing his back legs to splay out...but I'm not taking it upon myself to diagnose and treat him without referring to the vets. (sorry for getting sidetracked again!) This mans dog is not wagging her tail, when the owner takes her for a walk he drags her up the road with her collar pulling up behind her ears as she can't keep up and she has sore patches on her hind quarters where her boney areas are causing bed sores. If the RSPCA go and he explains the treatment he has been giving her and they are happy with his explanation then so be it. Like I said I had the RSPCA at my door once and it's not nice but better that than not call for fear of causing offence.

In hindsight I shouldn't have told him I was going to call them but I wanted to give him a fair chance to sort it out himself as he is a neighbour. He's not a stranger to the RSPCA knocking on his door (3 times when he has let his dogs loose to chase, and once kill, neighbourhood cats) and he hasn't retaliated against the people who have reported him before apparantly.
 
Ah well, sounds like you are doing the right thing, I think the line that has to be drawn is not what the dog looks like, but whether it wants to live, and it doesnt look to be having a nice time at the moment.
 
"SORRY ABOUT THE GENTLEMAN THING" you have definatley done the wright thing and are justified in your concerns, especially for all the animals out there who have been left to suffer unneccesarily by people assuming there must be a reason for the state they where in..... HENCE LEAVING THEM TO FURTHER ABUSE/DEATH.
As i said before most dogs esp large breed suffer joint pain e,t,c, but as a nurse i can also tell that these self and same symtoms could also be a sign of cancer..... for the sake of the owner having this dog checked by a vet to determine the problem, the dog is going to suffer either way, and if he cant determine this himself..... THEN SOMEONE HAS TO ACT ON THE DOGS BEHALF.
You are obviously a very considerate person, to approach the owner to have a kind and concerning word..... only to be verbally scolded.
Next time just save yourself the bother and phone the appropriate authority and dont bother to try the concerned route with the owner!!!cos clearly as mentioned other people would not appreciate it...... Which to me sort of says, if you are concerned for an animals welfare just ignore it..... theres probably a good explanation and if theres not well NEVER MIND!!!!!
 
Thanks and next time I will just phone! I've phoned the RSPCA several times before and never felt the need to tell the people first and I wish I hadn't this time.
 
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