00wyk
Here For The Long Haul!
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I'll try and not post any more rescue stuff in a non rescue non off-topic thread. But I just came across this while perusing my rescue files. This is a hound that we found roaming the streets. Both ears have had their tattoos removed. Some at the rescue thought maybe acid or salts. But it looked to me like it was straight punched out and just cared for afterwards. Like they did it while they were using the dogs for sport, in case one got loose later, or they needed to dump them at a later time, or they were giving the hound to someone else and didn't want it traced back to them. In any case, it loosely ties the 'legal racing' side to the illegal dumping and hunting side. But since travelers are known to steal hounds off others, it's difficult to say. But travelers wouldn't usually fear a hound being traced back to them since they never register them or tattoo them... In any case, as I said previously, ex-racing hounds which are traceable often lose their ears before they are discarded.