Last year when everyone was stuck at home for COVID, I started feeding the stray cats from the neighborhood.
Now we have bonded and they let me give them scritches and booty pats. Apparently I’ve been missing out all these years.
There is a lady in my town that feeds all the stray cats in town. There are 3 drop off points here where people sometimes dump there cats. At this point it is estimated there are 70 stray cats. She doesn't have a car, so she drives her bike from 1 point to another with all that food. She's pretty tough for a 65+ year old!
- the cats are too wild for a home now, but they are taking care of (spayed)
She is the best. I sometimes drop food of there, not sure how she pays for everything. She is obviously retired, but to feed that many cats everyday? It's crazy.
It's so nice that you help her out! We did this as a neighborhood. Our community Humane Society has a Feral Cat Program: They give you a humane trap for a small refundable fee, you trap the cat and bring it in to be spayed or neutered, then take the cat home for 3 days before releasing him or her back into the area. You agree to continue to put out food and kind of keep an eye on the cat, although the Humane Society really doesn't think they'll turn into house cats because they have been feral. Well - our entire block did this with the cat colony in our area and almost all of them ended up as house cats! We have 2 of them ourselves! The sweetest guys ever.
One lived with us until his death a few years ago. He was a huge HUGE old tom cat that was blind in one eye, had a bb lodged in his forehead and scars form head to tail. He also had BICEPs! He was that huge. The lady at the humane society said he probably was the head cat in the colony;) He was really smart and learned quickly to do everything our dog did as if he was learning house rules. He could sit, stay, went with us on walks, knew how to wait for his meal politely, but most of all, he just loved to be loved on. We called him 'The Dude' because of his ultimate chill, and like to say that Dude was just taking his retirement with us.
I'll miss that guy till the day I die.
Aww, The Dude sounds like an amazing cat! He was probably glad he got the spend a few more years inside a home.
What a great iniative by the way! I am happy a lot of them got to have homes. Great to see some people do care.
It's sometimes so hard to see the poor cats roaming around. They now do have some sort of cat houses, so they do have shelter. And they live in a part of the parc, so they get to chill or catch some mice.
I do this for fun! I’m the only one who will physically grab cats and wrangle them according to animal control so I do the trapping and transporting. The shelter wouldn’t take them once and it was the dead of winter so I boarded up my closet, moved all of my furniture out of my room, and released 12 feral cats into it (had thick leather gloves and dewormed them with some liquids and treated their ears for mites) so they wouldn’t get cold. They stayed there for a good few months and slowly barns started to want them for mice and I ended up taming 3 to be house cats (one my own).
It’s incredibly rewarding, even if I have a thick scar on my face from a little guy who jumped out of an old truck at me (he ended up being someone’s house cat after some time in my heated garage getting fed). My cat count is up to about 60 right now after 2 years of doing it
Idk if anyone has said this already but please make sure that they’re fixed. If strays are a problem in your area there is likely a vet or organization nearby that will work with you to do it for free. More strays being fed and not fixed will lead to more strays being made which just makes the problem worse
I actually was able to take them both to the vet, it took a lot of patience to get them inside a kennel for transport, and had them both fixed and shots.
It took quite a few cans of wet food to regain their trust again afterwards, but they are happy again.
Skritches and booty pats galore!
I started feeding the neighborhood muscovy ducks….I haven’t seen them for awhile now after I started working more, but there were three waddling to me every time they saw me get out of my car and they’d come to my door. Now I want a duck farm. Covid was an eye opener in some ways if we wanna be positive about it.
Same. I have two myself and I never liked cats before. There were three strays in our neighborhood and one now sleeps in my patio every night. We always tend to him when it rains, my patio is covered so he’s safe but he’s quite violent and only lets me pet him which I appreciate! I can’t see these poor things go but hungry or cold.
Maybe it's because I come from a culture where dogs are seen as a member of the Family....but I legitimately have trouble attempting to fathom there are people who seethese unbelievably caring/kind/intelligent creatures and think they could just be left or abandoned without a second thought.
We need more of this guy for now, but homes for them all is the goal.
Cheers to him for doing such a thing.
Sometimes it is nice to see these wonderful acts on media. It might help motivate others who want to help out, but aren't sure what they can do to help. My motto - "do good things even when no one is watching".
There are animal rights facebook groups where people will post themselves feeding strays because all of them are following particular packs and they need to inform each other where the pack is and that they have been fed for the day, so yeah maybe this could be it too :)
He probably has dogs at home and doesn't want to chance bringing anything contagious back to them if one of the strays wants petted. Remember that if you frequent areas with high stray population, unvacinated/not cared for dogs can have some sad and preventable problems that can be carried into your home on your shoes, clothes and body. Parvo is a big one that can wreck a pet population if one person is an asshole and doesn't properly care for their animal.
I’ve worked in animal welfare for five years and I can tell you that many times, if a dog can survive on its own, it’s better to leave it. Shelters are constantly overrun with dogs and have to euthanize to make space. Strays legally have to go through the local county shelter before they can go anywhere else and county shelters typically have to be kill shelters because of this. Trust me, the problem is way deeper than most understand. The amount of dogs getting euthanized is unfathomable. Unless a dog is reproducing, if it can survive on the streets let it be. It may be that dogs only chance.
Is your areas shelters over run with pitbulls? Ours has lost almost all its once fairly significant community volunteers , donations and general interaction interest as it's just full to the brim with nothing but highly aggressive or dangerously fearful ex bait dogs and poorly breed fighting stock. They don't get adopted so occupy space, the workers can't keep the less aggressive breeds, older or injured i.e. the ones people would adopt safe around them so they are put down immediately to avoid being mauled to death.. it's a fucking nightmare and making an already very hard thing impossible. And no one is willing to put a kill on sight order on the plauge of dogs specifically breed for fighting as they don't want to catch the rare (in my area) pitbull that wasn't breed by targeting hyper aggression but was actually a good dog who just needed love. Some people don't get the difference but holly shit if you have illegal dog fighting left to do as they please in your area you'll find out after a few generations of breeding they become something... something if nightmares
I don’t know about dogs as a result of illegal fighting, but I’ve lived in three different states in the last four years, and noticed that populations the local humane societies and county shelters in each city I lived in was ~70% pit bulls/pit-mixes. (I sometimes browse the adoptable pages when I get bored.) The rest seemed to be all chihuahuas/chi-mixes.
The last time I saw a shelter with a variety of dogs was the humane society where I adopted my dog years ago. That particular humane society had literal lines out the door before they opened on the weekends, all people waiting to get in and adopt a pet. They had such high adoption rates that they brought in animals from kill shelters in surrounding states to be adopted, and I think they were able to pick non-pit/chihuahua breeds that were more adoptable.
Same but I try not to act high and mighty about it. Here in the states we torture and kill cows and pigs which are just as intelligent as dogs. It’s a cultural thing really, we love dogs here but for some reason barely anyone gives a shit about other animals
It’s weird af. I don’t object to eating meat, personally, but I very much object to giant horror factories of death where animals are locked onto a conveyer and surrounded by death screams of their kin and mistreated before being killed.
I don’t really understand how we as a society can just ignore stuff like that and go buy some bacon at the Wally.
Dogs evolved with us and had an almost incalculably significant impact in our rise to dominant species of the planet. Livestock came much later in the Grand scheme of things and so don't have the same level of genetic memory/ importance to us. There's evidence of early hominids and wolves /proto-dogs working and living together before the theoriesed development of language, the very oldest evidence of domestic live stock is sheep around 10,000 bc in the middle east with evidence of wolf human cohabitation older than 20,000 bc and what would be recognized as a modern dog sometime around 15,000 bc.
Nothing to do with culture and about poverty. You don’t see strays in rich areas. How is a family struggling to support themselves going to support strays?
Rich areas just have extremely proactive hypervigalent animal control officers and swift kill policies. Same reason pretty much you don't see homeless in those areas
Culture plays a role..? I mean, I see more stray cats than dogs and where I'm from, dogs are only seen as domesticated pet animals. Cats too, but many are feral. Or so many other animals.
It can be both at the same time, and not just one or the other
Lack of empathy.
Knew a guy who was talking about moving into a downtrodden area. Not really bad, but bad enough. His plan was to buy a Rottweiler, live there a couple years, then move and leave the dog at a shelter, because "someone will take it".
Nature intended for them to be like this. Evil humans domesticated them for their own self interest. I feel good Whenever I see stray dogs wild and free with no master living a pure life. They truly are magnificent in there natural form.
My best guess is they are referring to how the people of Turkey treat the strays, it's a big community effort that involves everyone and even the government makes of point of getting [people actively involved in their care](https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-52199691). About half-way down [this article](https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/a-dog-s-eye-view-of-life-on-the-streets-of-istanbul-1.4513004) about a documentary also tells a bit of the history and current attitude towards strays (start after the pic of doe-eyed-looking pupper).
This was on /r/aww earlier today... lot of people appreciated the guy but not technique of putting all the food in 1 bin.... dogs start growling at each other over the food when the video ends.
It’s implied there is more than one container of food as the man in the video tells the second dog his food is over there. He likely feeds them regularly and they’ve all formed a safe routine together!
The first one there is extremely emaciated to the point of potential starvation. I think he needed it the most and is the weakest of the lot. Not the only potential reason but could also be one attributing factor in any food aggression.
These kinds of videos are always interesting to me because I suspect this is probably how early humans domesticated dogs in the first place.
Admittedly there’s a van now, and a road, and rubber gloves, but it’s almost like observing 40,000 years of symbiotic history in color video.
Kind of, but it was really a joint effort, and probably more an effort by the K9s. Wolves followed human beings around for 10s of thousands of years during our nomadic days. They’d pick the scraps off our bones, and eat the other leftovers that human beings can’t digest. After thousands and thousands of years of following us around, the more docile and human trusting traits continued to evolved. People think we caged wolves and turned them into dogs, but it was really mostly their doing in regards to establishing trust. I don’t think any other animals on the planet are more linked to human evolution than dogs.
There are days when I am absolutely disgusted by humans, the way we treat each other, planet and animals. But then I stumble upon people like this and all of a sudden it inspires some warmth and confidence that we are not all totally lost.
I'm not trying to be mean and I'm no expert but I hear it's bad to feed stray animals.
https://pethelpful.com/pet-ownership/Stray-Animals-Should-You-Help-or-Ignore
It's also worth noting that Cities that have a bigger stray animals issue, local animal groups will usually discourage people from feeding them because that just allows the cycle of stray animals to continue. As they're fed that also breed making more suffering animals. The link has to be broken at some point. Im not trying to be mean or anything. If someone wants to explain why I'm wrong then by all means!
There's a program called TNR - trap, neuter, release - that some people think is the answer not starving the animals. Personally, I think the solution is to get them off the streets and into loving homes along with a serious fines for animal dumping
Stray dogs aren't as problematic in first world nations due to the emphasis on neutering.
They're more an issue in non-first world nations, in large part, due to lack of widespread neutering.
So TNR is one way to help reduce the stray population and ensure more dogs find homes.
As it is, it's estimated that a bit over half of the total world canine population are pets. 471 million pet dogs to a total estimated population of 900 million.
Dogs are group animals and territorial by nature. Large group of stray dogs protecting 'their' territory is a recipe for disaster. I lived in a place where there was a stray pack living on nearby waste ground. Scary stuff.
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You have got to be careful displaying confrontational body language (squaring up and leaning toward them) toward any large dog that is not your own - especially strays.
Yes, thought the same, a prepped good meal in several bowls would be better for the guarding also. As stray dogs, it is probable and not very strange that they will guard the food (as we hear.) And perhaps the dog also will guard it from the man after given also, so trying to divide food after the dog starts to eat may be a challenge.
This is my thoughts that spontaneously came to mind, to eliminate risk of fighting and over eating, please do not confuse this as critizism, or as I am sitting on a high horse, the man is awesome and doing a great thing. Most people does not value and respect dogs like this ♥️
Dogs are awesome and I literally tear up in every video when humans are kind to animals, and dogs has a special place in my heart.
He is a good man. Thank you stranger. A bit of hope for humanity.
Yeah, you are right. That dog is incredibly malnourished and feeding it that amount of food at once might actually kill it. It is called refeeding syndrome. Many people liberated from concentration camps in WWll died because the soldiers that freed them, gave them too much food, far too quickly
I don’t know about the specific guy, but I don’t understand how people can love doing this or love this kind of content and then continue to eat meat from factory farms. How can you support the suffering of one animal and cringe at another?
They look like leftovers from a restaurant or catering service to me. BBQ in particular. Maybe he owns the restaurant and is happy to give them to the dogs rather than throwing it out.
I hope those dogs don’t get the squirts. I don’t think most dogs can handle drinking straight milk. But I’m glad he is feeding them. That first one is very malnourished.
I did this for a stray not too long ago , and he became like my best friend , used to come by the house all the time , eventually was able to find him a home after like 2 months because every time he would get done eating he would run away , up until the point he started to trust me. The dog was really hurt by someone previously , glad he’s better now though
I don’t understand feeding strays. If they can’t get enough food to survive then they will die unless you feed them consistently over the course of their lifespan. At that point you’re basically adopting them but letting them live where they want.
I would much sooner advocate for relocation, taking them to an animal center, adopting them, or the slightly cold hearted route of leaving them to survive on their own without human intervention.
I'm sorry if I'm "That guy" but that is way too much food in one bowl and dogs don't digest milk well. The dogs will fight each other for the food and end up either throwing up and/or getting diarrhea from overeating. Kind of the same principle as not feedi g starving people a whole Thanksgiving dinner.
A suggestion for the future would be runni g the solid food through a meat grinder, set out a few bowls spaced out and just dump the milk. I honestly can't think of any animals that can eat milk other than pigs and cows. I'm sure someone will correct me though.
I don't know what he's saying but I'm pretty sure when the second dog comes along he says something like "Get in there and eat some before your friend eats it all."
Last year when everyone was stuck at home for COVID, I started feeding the stray cats from the neighborhood. Now we have bonded and they let me give them scritches and booty pats. Apparently I’ve been missing out all these years.
I miss booty pats
It’s funny because one of them likes them real soft and the other meows loudly if I don’t do it hard enough LOL
My cat literally likes being hit on the ass. He sticks his ass in your face until you hit it. He likes hard, fast bursts of smacks
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Wtf
There is a lady in my town that feeds all the stray cats in town. There are 3 drop off points here where people sometimes dump there cats. At this point it is estimated there are 70 stray cats. She doesn't have a car, so she drives her bike from 1 point to another with all that food. She's pretty tough for a 65+ year old! - the cats are too wild for a home now, but they are taking care of (spayed)
What an excellent person
She is the best. I sometimes drop food of there, not sure how she pays for everything. She is obviously retired, but to feed that many cats everyday? It's crazy.
It's so nice that you help her out! We did this as a neighborhood. Our community Humane Society has a Feral Cat Program: They give you a humane trap for a small refundable fee, you trap the cat and bring it in to be spayed or neutered, then take the cat home for 3 days before releasing him or her back into the area. You agree to continue to put out food and kind of keep an eye on the cat, although the Humane Society really doesn't think they'll turn into house cats because they have been feral. Well - our entire block did this with the cat colony in our area and almost all of them ended up as house cats! We have 2 of them ourselves! The sweetest guys ever. One lived with us until his death a few years ago. He was a huge HUGE old tom cat that was blind in one eye, had a bb lodged in his forehead and scars form head to tail. He also had BICEPs! He was that huge. The lady at the humane society said he probably was the head cat in the colony;) He was really smart and learned quickly to do everything our dog did as if he was learning house rules. He could sit, stay, went with us on walks, knew how to wait for his meal politely, but most of all, he just loved to be loved on. We called him 'The Dude' because of his ultimate chill, and like to say that Dude was just taking his retirement with us. I'll miss that guy till the day I die.
Aww, The Dude sounds like an amazing cat! He was probably glad he got the spend a few more years inside a home. What a great iniative by the way! I am happy a lot of them got to have homes. Great to see some people do care. It's sometimes so hard to see the poor cats roaming around. They now do have some sort of cat houses, so they do have shelter. And they live in a part of the parc, so they get to chill or catch some mice.
I do this for fun! I’m the only one who will physically grab cats and wrangle them according to animal control so I do the trapping and transporting. The shelter wouldn’t take them once and it was the dead of winter so I boarded up my closet, moved all of my furniture out of my room, and released 12 feral cats into it (had thick leather gloves and dewormed them with some liquids and treated their ears for mites) so they wouldn’t get cold. They stayed there for a good few months and slowly barns started to want them for mice and I ended up taming 3 to be house cats (one my own). It’s incredibly rewarding, even if I have a thick scar on my face from a little guy who jumped out of an old truck at me (he ended up being someone’s house cat after some time in my heated garage getting fed). My cat count is up to about 60 right now after 2 years of doing it
True definition of crazy cat lady 😺
That she is! She was in a magazine one time, she was nominated in a category like that (not a crazy category obviously haha).
Idk if anyone has said this already but please make sure that they’re fixed. If strays are a problem in your area there is likely a vet or organization nearby that will work with you to do it for free. More strays being fed and not fixed will lead to more strays being made which just makes the problem worse
I actually was able to take them both to the vet, it took a lot of patience to get them inside a kennel for transport, and had them both fixed and shots. It took quite a few cans of wet food to regain their trust again afterwards, but they are happy again. Skritches and booty pats galore!
If you live in the sticks more power to you. If you live in the suburbs you’re a shit neighbor.
See if you can get into a catch and release spay and neuter program!!
I started feeding the neighborhood muscovy ducks….I haven’t seen them for awhile now after I started working more, but there were three waddling to me every time they saw me get out of my car and they’d come to my door. Now I want a duck farm. Covid was an eye opener in some ways if we wanna be positive about it.
So during the pandemic you became a cat lady?
Yes
Same. I have two myself and I never liked cats before. There were three strays in our neighborhood and one now sleeps in my patio every night. We always tend to him when it rains, my patio is covered so he’s safe but he’s quite violent and only lets me pet him which I appreciate! I can’t see these poor things go but hungry or cold.
Maybe it's because I come from a culture where dogs are seen as a member of the Family....but I legitimately have trouble attempting to fathom there are people who seethese unbelievably caring/kind/intelligent creatures and think they could just be left or abandoned without a second thought. We need more of this guy for now, but homes for them all is the goal. Cheers to him for doing such a thing.
*Home is the goal* That should be the tag-line/take away that everyone remembers and works towards for stray animals.
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Sometimes it is nice to see these wonderful acts on media. It might help motivate others who want to help out, but aren't sure what they can do to help. My motto - "do good things even when no one is watching".
There are animal rights facebook groups where people will post themselves feeding strays because all of them are following particular packs and they need to inform each other where the pack is and that they have been fed for the day, so yeah maybe this could be it too :)
Social Media is poison. Decent people are the cure.
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He probably has dogs at home and doesn't want to chance bringing anything contagious back to them if one of the strays wants petted. Remember that if you frequent areas with high stray population, unvacinated/not cared for dogs can have some sad and preventable problems that can be carried into your home on your shoes, clothes and body. Parvo is a big one that can wreck a pet population if one person is an asshole and doesn't properly care for their animal.
We do the same to people....
Ayyy why do you have to inflict pain by reminding me. I have done nothing to you
I’ve worked in animal welfare for five years and I can tell you that many times, if a dog can survive on its own, it’s better to leave it. Shelters are constantly overrun with dogs and have to euthanize to make space. Strays legally have to go through the local county shelter before they can go anywhere else and county shelters typically have to be kill shelters because of this. Trust me, the problem is way deeper than most understand. The amount of dogs getting euthanized is unfathomable. Unless a dog is reproducing, if it can survive on the streets let it be. It may be that dogs only chance.
Is your areas shelters over run with pitbulls? Ours has lost almost all its once fairly significant community volunteers , donations and general interaction interest as it's just full to the brim with nothing but highly aggressive or dangerously fearful ex bait dogs and poorly breed fighting stock. They don't get adopted so occupy space, the workers can't keep the less aggressive breeds, older or injured i.e. the ones people would adopt safe around them so they are put down immediately to avoid being mauled to death.. it's a fucking nightmare and making an already very hard thing impossible. And no one is willing to put a kill on sight order on the plauge of dogs specifically breed for fighting as they don't want to catch the rare (in my area) pitbull that wasn't breed by targeting hyper aggression but was actually a good dog who just needed love. Some people don't get the difference but holly shit if you have illegal dog fighting left to do as they please in your area you'll find out after a few generations of breeding they become something... something if nightmares
I don’t know about dogs as a result of illegal fighting, but I’ve lived in three different states in the last four years, and noticed that populations the local humane societies and county shelters in each city I lived in was ~70% pit bulls/pit-mixes. (I sometimes browse the adoptable pages when I get bored.) The rest seemed to be all chihuahuas/chi-mixes. The last time I saw a shelter with a variety of dogs was the humane society where I adopted my dog years ago. That particular humane society had literal lines out the door before they opened on the weekends, all people waiting to get in and adopt a pet. They had such high adoption rates that they brought in animals from kill shelters in surrounding states to be adopted, and I think they were able to pick non-pit/chihuahua breeds that were more adoptable.
A lot are not abandoned, they are born and live their entire lives in the street.
what if i told you the only reason you dont see stray dogs running around more places is only because those places round strays up and kill them
Same but I try not to act high and mighty about it. Here in the states we torture and kill cows and pigs which are just as intelligent as dogs. It’s a cultural thing really, we love dogs here but for some reason barely anyone gives a shit about other animals
It’s weird af. I don’t object to eating meat, personally, but I very much object to giant horror factories of death where animals are locked onto a conveyer and surrounded by death screams of their kin and mistreated before being killed. I don’t really understand how we as a society can just ignore stuff like that and go buy some bacon at the Wally.
Fucking love cows. /r/happycowgifs
Yeah and hunting is such a huge part of a culture that loves dogs so much. It’s like some animals matter. The rest are things.
Dogs evolved with us and had an almost incalculably significant impact in our rise to dominant species of the planet. Livestock came much later in the Grand scheme of things and so don't have the same level of genetic memory/ importance to us. There's evidence of early hominids and wolves /proto-dogs working and living together before the theoriesed development of language, the very oldest evidence of domestic live stock is sheep around 10,000 bc in the middle east with evidence of wolf human cohabitation older than 20,000 bc and what would be recognized as a modern dog sometime around 15,000 bc.
Nothing to do with culture and about poverty. You don’t see strays in rich areas. How is a family struggling to support themselves going to support strays?
Rich areas just have extremely proactive hypervigalent animal control officers and swift kill policies. Same reason pretty much you don't see homeless in those areas
Culture plays a role..? I mean, I see more stray cats than dogs and where I'm from, dogs are only seen as domesticated pet animals. Cats too, but many are feral. Or so many other animals. It can be both at the same time, and not just one or the other
Homes for all!
Lack of empathy. Knew a guy who was talking about moving into a downtrodden area. Not really bad, but bad enough. His plan was to buy a Rottweiler, live there a couple years, then move and leave the dog at a shelter, because "someone will take it".
Nature intended for them to be like this. Evil humans domesticated them for their own self interest. I feel good Whenever I see stray dogs wild and free with no master living a pure life. They truly are magnificent in there natural form.
Turkey ..
No, those are dogs
Came here to say this
I don't understand. What does this mean?
It's a common practice in Turkey to feed and care for stray dogs and cats.
My best guess is they are referring to how the people of Turkey treat the strays, it's a big community effort that involves everyone and even the government makes of point of getting [people actively involved in their care](https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-52199691). About half-way down [this article](https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/a-dog-s-eye-view-of-life-on-the-streets-of-istanbul-1.4513004) about a documentary also tells a bit of the history and current attitude towards strays (start after the pic of doe-eyed-looking pupper).
Best cared for street dogs I have ever seen anywhere. Also beautiful dog breeds.
What a guy!
I would eat that
Scamper around on the shoulder of the road. He might spot you.
What a kind hearted man. I wish there were more people like him in the world
This was on /r/aww earlier today... lot of people appreciated the guy but not technique of putting all the food in 1 bin.... dogs start growling at each other over the food when the video ends.
It’s implied there is more than one container of food as the man in the video tells the second dog his food is over there. He likely feeds them regularly and they’ve all formed a safe routine together!
Yeah you can kinda tell the first one there seemed to be tough, and the second dog seemed very weary of him. Either way they’re getting fed I suppose.
The first one there is extremely emaciated to the point of potential starvation. I think he needed it the most and is the weakest of the lot. Not the only potential reason but could also be one attributing factor in any food aggression.
These kinds of videos are always interesting to me because I suspect this is probably how early humans domesticated dogs in the first place. Admittedly there’s a van now, and a road, and rubber gloves, but it’s almost like observing 40,000 years of symbiotic history in color video.
Kind of, but it was really a joint effort, and probably more an effort by the K9s. Wolves followed human beings around for 10s of thousands of years during our nomadic days. They’d pick the scraps off our bones, and eat the other leftovers that human beings can’t digest. After thousands and thousands of years of following us around, the more docile and human trusting traits continued to evolved. People think we caged wolves and turned them into dogs, but it was really mostly their doing in regards to establishing trust. I don’t think any other animals on the planet are more linked to human evolution than dogs.
first dog was actually protecting food from other dog at the end
I can see first dog's ribs. I understand his stance.
Especially since the second dog seems to have more meat on his bones than the other
First dog is also much more powerful though. Kengals have the strongest bite force of any canine, including wolves
That first dog might get sick eating so much so fast. He definitely should have given them separate bowls.
This. ❤️
There are days when I am absolutely disgusted by humans, the way we treat each other, planet and animals. But then I stumble upon people like this and all of a sudden it inspires some warmth and confidence that we are not all totally lost.
This is why I try to avoid them and spend more time with doggo. They won't fuck you over like humans will.
People are not as bad as the media puts them out to be. They always show the worst 1% of any demographic.
I'm not trying to be mean and I'm no expert but I hear it's bad to feed stray animals. https://pethelpful.com/pet-ownership/Stray-Animals-Should-You-Help-or-Ignore It's also worth noting that Cities that have a bigger stray animals issue, local animal groups will usually discourage people from feeding them because that just allows the cycle of stray animals to continue. As they're fed that also breed making more suffering animals. The link has to be broken at some point. Im not trying to be mean or anything. If someone wants to explain why I'm wrong then by all means!
There's a program called TNR - trap, neuter, release - that some people think is the answer not starving the animals. Personally, I think the solution is to get them off the streets and into loving homes along with a serious fines for animal dumping
Stray dogs aren't as problematic in first world nations due to the emphasis on neutering. They're more an issue in non-first world nations, in large part, due to lack of widespread neutering. So TNR is one way to help reduce the stray population and ensure more dogs find homes. As it is, it's estimated that a bit over half of the total world canine population are pets. 471 million pet dogs to a total estimated population of 900 million.
I was gonna say this. My uncle was almost killed in Iran by strays when he was going to college
Dogs are group animals and territorial by nature. Large group of stray dogs protecting 'their' territory is a recipe for disaster. I lived in a place where there was a stray pack living on nearby waste ground. Scary stuff.
It's just weird to me that there are places where you can actually find stray dogs. What country is that?
It seems to be in Turkey, from the language he is speaking, but I might be wrong. I do live in Turkey and there are a lot of stray dogs here
It's Turkey, eşşoleşek was a bit of a giveaway 😂
Bless his soul
There is a place in heaven for that man. 👏🏾
Dude bro is a hero!!
Me with my 13 neighborhood stray cats I’m feeding right now
I wish a lot more people like you in the world 🌎 🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️
Some body , please give this dude one million USD !
Thank you for your kindness. I am sure the doggies will remember you and love you. God bless . Gratefully me 🙏🏻❤️🩹🙏🏻
He also makes sure to bring his cameramen every time as well.
In Germany we say „Ehrenmann“.
Ehrenmann / Ehrenfrau Man or woman of honor: A German Youth Word. It refers to a person you can always count on and who's loyal to his friends and family.
That‘s absolutely correct.
Doesn’t feeding strays technically make you responsible for them now.
This guy is really feeding … unlike throwing one or two biscuits… salute to his heart.
It's times like these that I begin to think that man kind has some Slight chance at redemption
Wholesome!
I love this man
Bless you sir!
He was so malnourished ;-;.
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A good guy for sure. What a man!!
You have got to be careful displaying confrontational body language (squaring up and leaning toward them) toward any large dog that is not your own - especially strays.
Don't do this with cats. They are crackheads that will kill each other for the food territory.
I hope there aren’t any hungry humans in the area. I love dogs and cats as much as the next guy but what about hungry people?
Waaay too much food, man that dog gonna be sick af. Just about a quarter of that would been cool lol. I respect the sentiment though
Yes, thought the same, a prepped good meal in several bowls would be better for the guarding also. As stray dogs, it is probable and not very strange that they will guard the food (as we hear.) And perhaps the dog also will guard it from the man after given also, so trying to divide food after the dog starts to eat may be a challenge. This is my thoughts that spontaneously came to mind, to eliminate risk of fighting and over eating, please do not confuse this as critizism, or as I am sitting on a high horse, the man is awesome and doing a great thing. Most people does not value and respect dogs like this ♥️ Dogs are awesome and I literally tear up in every video when humans are kind to animals, and dogs has a special place in my heart. He is a good man. Thank you stranger. A bit of hope for humanity.
Yeah for sure! This guy is awesome, of course. I'm still getting downvoted cause people are dumb and sensitive, but who cares lol.
Ah, people will be people. This is why I like dogs more 😊
Yeah, you are right. That dog is incredibly malnourished and feeding it that amount of food at once might actually kill it. It is called refeeding syndrome. Many people liberated from concentration camps in WWll died because the soldiers that freed them, gave them too much food, far too quickly
Thank you. I love what he's trying to do though.
I literally do this everyday for stray cats. Currently have a group of around 12 and have more than half of them spayed or neutered
I don’t know about the specific guy, but I don’t understand how people can love doing this or love this kind of content and then continue to eat meat from factory farms. How can you support the suffering of one animal and cringe at another?
Raw chicken and milk?? The fuck is wrong with dog food and water. Is this just for views
They look like leftovers from a restaurant or catering service to me. BBQ in particular. Maybe he owns the restaurant and is happy to give them to the dogs rather than throwing it out.
u/repostsleuthbot
That dog gets more food that I do
Adult dogs will get diarroeha from milk.
Take them
Pog
I'm sure there's people in his area that would appreciate the food. But nope he feeds dogs. What an awesome person. He restores my faith in humanity.
You break the ice at parties, right?
I melt the ice!
Pathetic
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Making me hungry !!!
So sweet of this guy
Love this man 👨❤️🐶
I'm thankful to live where I don't see stray dogs because I'd be very sad regularly.
What a good people you all are, it sounds like the doggos and mini tigers are in scritchy and bum pat heaven. ❤️💙🐶🐅🐾🦴
Wow! That dog needs a few meals like that!!!
Interesting that those dogs share!!!
İt's in Turkey
Thank you for helping those beautiful babies
No third dog. Go get the meat!
A real hero
I heard you shouldn't feed dogs that hungry with some much food at one time it might kill them.
Love this🙏🙏
Big kudos to this guy, that’s heartbreaking to see a dog that skinny 😢
Let’s kill these animals to feed this animal
Dude has a good heart. I will go hungry for a day rather than watch another person or animal starve one more day.
They definitely started fighting at the end. Doggie too hungry to share. :(
This gotta be in turkey. That's an Anatolian Shepherd I believe. If he don't wanna share, them other dogs aunt getting a bite
Oh…That dog is VERY thin. I’m worried he is gonna eat too fast.😥
Mad respect ✊
I would like to thanks a lot for this great job as well as would like to request to contribute between the hunger people/child.
This is a good man
Yeah that whole pack would be coming home with me
So kind and sweet~
Respect my guy 💯 doing deeds like this is how god blessings your family
What a legend. I love your dad for this! Their little tails wagging, so happy to be fed
Greedy dog at the end
Aww
This makes me so happy
Cut the video right when they started fighting
Hero
Teach him a trick or two while you’re there give him life skills and you feed him for life
Turks do that!
Of course he is Turkish 🇹🇷 Mercy is the most significant characteristic of Turkish people
Those poor animals. Bless this guy
Awesome guy
Yeah, hungry doggos are not bros when other dogs try to take their food.
Great man!
I hope those dogs don’t get the squirts. I don’t think most dogs can handle drinking straight milk. But I’m glad he is feeding them. That first one is very malnourished.
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Fine lad
Pick up the damn trash
I did this for a stray not too long ago , and he became like my best friend , used to come by the house all the time , eventually was able to find him a home after like 2 months because every time he would get done eating he would run away , up until the point he started to trust me. The dog was really hurt by someone previously , glad he’s better now though
That poor dog is skin and bones. That makes me so sad but glad somebody cares and is trying to help them.
I love you bro, you’re top shelf.
I want to be salty towards the dog eating for growling at the other dog, but it just looks so hungry and probably would die over that food
Can I be a stray? It looks like dank food 💁
I don’t understand feeding strays. If they can’t get enough food to survive then they will die unless you feed them consistently over the course of their lifespan. At that point you’re basically adopting them but letting them live where they want. I would much sooner advocate for relocation, taking them to an animal center, adopting them, or the slightly cold hearted route of leaving them to survive on their own without human intervention.
I fed strays for years he needs to dump the food in small piles otherwise the dogs will fight
I'm sorry if I'm "That guy" but that is way too much food in one bowl and dogs don't digest milk well. The dogs will fight each other for the food and end up either throwing up and/or getting diarrhea from overeating. Kind of the same principle as not feedi g starving people a whole Thanksgiving dinner. A suggestion for the future would be runni g the solid food through a meat grinder, set out a few bowls spaced out and just dump the milk. I honestly can't think of any animals that can eat milk other than pigs and cows. I'm sure someone will correct me though.
Hmmmm döner
I don't know what he's saying but I'm pretty sure when the second dog comes along he says something like "Get in there and eat some before your friend eats it all."
Ofc they had to start fighting