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What you have described sounds like abuse (or, if you want to split the hair, chronic neglect). Several posters have correctly pointed out, though, that your post lacks important details, such as the size of the dog and what sort of exercise it gets inside the apartment when it's not being crated.
Chill is right, though, that involving any sort of legal entity in this situation should be a last fucking resort. The damage that it will do to your relationship with your brother will probably be immense, and there's usually a good chance that the dog will wind up euthanized if it gets sent to the pound (here again there are a lot of factors to consider such as how crowded your local shelter is, the breed of the dog, it's age, etc.). To put it mildly, calling animal services on your family member is a high-risk, low-reward maneuver.
On the bright side, your brother might actually welcome your help (if you're tactful about offering it). A lot of times people get in over their heads with an animal by accident because some pets are like having an additional part-time job. Your brother might feel guilty about the way he treats his dog but can't think of a way to fix the situation. Time is in scare supply for most people.
For what it's worth, from the limited information you've given us, I think that the situation warrants intervention. But you need to be well-aware that you're trying to navigate a minefield. You're going to be confronting some volatile and emotional issues. Be sensitive, patient, and tactful and try to see things from your brother's perspective as well as your own.
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On January 15 2012 15:18 Humanfails wrote:Show nested quote +On January 14 2012 05:18 Chill wrote:On January 13 2012 23:10 Humanfails wrote:On January 13 2012 07:39 SnetteL wrote:
Too much people get pets they can't handle. Standards are incredibly low for this day and age... this. Its very sad for the dog. They've got a living thing they're treating like a toy or other household object. You need to do the right thing and call animal protection. You think the dog will have a better life with animal protection? No, the OP needs to do the right thing, not be a pussy and fucking talk to his brother. The fact that you would call AP before having a conversation with your family member about taking their pet away is fucking insane. 1. It depends on which group you call. You can call a good group and have the animal treated well, or you can call a bad one and it will be euthanized after a certain time period with no adoption. Either option is better than the torture the dogs are receiving here. You have no idea how painful confinement is. We have laws against this kind of behavior with children, and for good reason. 2. Do like your namesake, chill please.
Calling a good animal fostering service might not be an option, though. In many cities, fostering agencies (the no-kill kind) do not accept surrenders from the public because they would be overwhelmed by sheer quantity. Instead, they rescue animals from the local shelters. Not just any animals, either, but animals that have a high probability of being adopted. Most these agencies run on pretty tight budgets and the longer they foster a dog, the less money they will be able to recoup with the adoption fees.
Unfortunately, it's all a numbers game. Any place that takes owner surrenders from the general public is likely to be a facility that also euthanizes simply because the number of people who give up pets is much larger than the number of people who adopt from shelters. I've lived in several different states, and I've never seen a quality fostering program that has an open-door surrender policy. They might be out there, but they would have to be ridiculously well-funded.
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