The Black Dog

Here's the pictures I sent to OSPCA this summer, "proving" that I'd called about the care of her poor black dog, KC. These pictures are from 1997 & 2000. KC was PTS by MB, two weeks after my red dog died. KC had started whining and crying at night. Her poor legs and feet had been paining her, living outside on concrete, or inside in an uninsulated room in a wire cage. I think the bleakness of her life, and the loss of red dog, sent her over the edge into shrieks of despair. She was 7 or so.

When MB first got the dog, there was no outside shelter, at all. MB also had her tied up using a choke-chain, yes, set to choke.  I called the OSPCA about this, and the fact that the dog never had her poop removed from her prison. The OSPCA stopped the choke chain stupidity, but they did not stop the 6`chain, tied outside 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 etc.. in her own poop without enough food or water stupidity. The first dog house KC received was a bare wooden box, with no bedding, none. The OSPCA had to come and order her to give the dog a flap at the front, the box only had a roof and three sides.
The dog had a cage inside, a wire crate, with a single piece of old rug for bedding. Can you imagine...

 The top picture is taken from inside her prison, the gate is behind me, MB's shack to my right, the dog's outside "shelter" to my left.
The middle picture is taken looking north, in the middle is the gate, see the brown thing with a v-shape at the top of the white rectangle? It looks like it is floating in mid-air, but it isn't. MB had to keep building the gate higher, because KC would keep jumping out. I saved KC from hanging herself, jumping up and over that gate, through the "v", the day MB rode her old mare onto the property. If I had NOT saved her, MB could have been charged with animal cruelty...
(The white circular thing in the middle of the "v" is the clothes-line thingy.)

The tar-paper shack to the right of the gate, is where her "inside" cage was. Uninsulated, facing west, the south side of the "house". MB and her BF at that time built that "addition", it now has white siding on it. MB's house is actually an illegal dwelling, it was intended for summer use only, by the original landlords.

The bottom picture was KC's water bucket. KC did her best to keep the shit out of her tiny "area", but after a while, she'd run out of room.

I sent OSPCA all of these pictures this summer. I called and called about that dog, and finally gave up. I fed that dog at MB's house, whenever I could. MB would leave the dog outside, in the coldest of winters at night, KC barking herself crazy, for days at a time. MB called the police one night, she'd seen my tracks in the snow, when I'd brought the dog some food. It was -20 celcius, MB hadn't been home, I'd fed and watered the poor thing. of course, THEN, MC comes home, and calls the cops.

MB showed OSPCA papers from a vet for this dog, too. See how shiney she is? Amazing what lies can be told, by a "glossy" coat. Think showsheen, for dogs. Plus, the dog was black, really hard to show her terrible condition. Believe me, she was ribby.

yeah.
I am criminal.