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Your Hot Dog Guy!

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Seems we take life for granted sometimes, the dog don't care if he's homeless! There's nothing like ha
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ving a best friend!
 
I dont know....I'm not going to respond because I will piss a bunch of people off. I'll leave it at you'd never find me in that position.
 
it, happens, hopefully never to me. if it does happen to me, it was my fault.
mcdonalds is always hiring,if juanita(who can barely speak english) can get a job there, i'm sure i could.
i'm sorry, i just have issues with people who are too lazy to change the path they are on.
 
yoderboy said:
he probably thought the same thing at one time in his life...but shit happens. i hope to never find myself in that position.
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I'm not knocking the guy at all.
"There but for the Grace of God go I"
However should I ever find myself unable to fend for myself, I will not waste an ounce of energy or a penny of money on a dog. Understand I treat my dogs better than my kids most of the time, but at the point where I am homless, its time to buckle down and get after it. In that case Id not hve a dog around, unless I was selling him or cooking him for dinner
 
Ron said:
I'm not knocking the guy at all.
"There but for the Grace of God go I"
However should I ever find myself unable to fend for myself, I will not waste an ounce of energy or a penny of money on a dog. Understand I treat my dogs better than my kids most of the time, but at the point where I am homless, its time to buckle down and get after it. In that case Id not hve a dog around, unless I was selling him or cooking him for dinner
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To be fair, your frame of mind is totally different than someone with no kids. If I ever ended up homeless, Id go to the ends of the earth to feed/help my dog if I was in his place. I love my dog like she was my own daughter. Id rather go without food than see her hungry. I thought about posting in this thread earlier, about how Id give my dog over to the humane society to let her go to a family who could afford to feed her....but then I thought about how she would react. Ive only had my dog for a year and a few months, and she is the first dog I've ever had, and I KNOW that it would forever scar her if I just up and disappeared. I could never to that to her. If I had no money and no home, you can bet Id feed that dog before I fed myself. Call me ignorant, stupid, whatever, but I would do whatever it took to make sure she was okay.

Dogs aren't something to be eaten or sold, dogs are something to be cherished and protected. If you don't feel that in some way your dog is part of your family, then you shouldn't be a dog owner.

You guys think that all homeless are the same, just because you aren't. Sure there are homeless people who did it to themselves, and in that case I feel no pity, but there are those who tried everything they could and still ended up on the streets. Hell, a good portion of those homeless are veterans, especially Vietnam. Simply looking at a picture and saying "OH fuck that guy he has a dog but can't afford a home, what a shitty person" is just a terrible way to look at life.
 
My family volunteers to cook and feed at the local homeless shelter through our church. I also stay late and do security untill 11pm. There are some truly needy folks out there and there are a lot of lazy parasites. It is a heart warming/wrenching photo for sure, but take a good look at the picture. Neither one has missed many meals. Call them what they are. Lazy.
Where I work on Tyvola and 77 I can see the entire "homeless" operation at work. They have shift changes, breaks, transportation, the whole 9 yards. It's a choice for these folks.
Last year, they had a member of their group in a Battery Powered Wheelchair. He rolled up to my car window one morning with his "Homeless, God bless" sign.
I asked him, "Are you really homeless"? "
"Yeah, man. We live on the road and I need some help to feed myself and my wife".
"Mind if I ask you a quick question"?
"Make it quick man, the light is about to change".
"Where do you plug your wheelchair in at night to charge it up"?
" F you man! If you dont want to help, F You"!
 
^^^^ That's pretty damn funny. I usually tell them that I already gave at the IRS.
 
i understand for some it's not a choice.
it also doesn't happen overnight, you have to know it's coming,therefore you have time to change something. if you chose not to change your course, it's your own fault.

i was there, i lived in my car for a year. i also graduated high school and held a full time job. was it a job i wanted to do, no but i did it because i had to. i was in the situation i was in because of my own choices. it was also my choice to change my situation.

i'm sorry if it seems i have no sympathy for them, but the panhandlers have made it that way.
a man stands on the corner walking back and forth for 4-5 hrs,holding a sign that says, "will work for food"
ask him if he wants a job........ he will say no.
if he wanted to work, he would be out there at 7:00am not at 5:30pm.
if he wanted to work he would be at the lowes with the rest of the beaners at 7:00am (don't you think contractors would love to have a laborer that could speak english)

i never said he was a shitty person, the picture is in fact heart wrenching, but if a dog is part of the family(which mine are) they should have been provided for long before it got to his current situation.
 
Yup. Say what you want about Beaners, but I commend them for one thing...
When we go down Hwy 1 in Baja, you drive thru tomato fields as far as you can see. They get picked by hand for .75 cents per hour. There is no welfare in Mexico, you work or you die. When a deserving person falls down, the community picks them up and lends a hand to get them back on thier feet. This is the way America used to be. The fact that Lyndon Johnson created welfare to get elected, has cursed this whole country. You cant tell the deserving from the bums any more. Just like the woman in Detroit who won the 1 mill lottery and was still taking food stamps. It has become a way of life for several generations now. You cant take it back once you put it in place... So, thanks again, Democrats.
 
I don't normally give any money, be cause most are the Panhandlers. Not Judging the one pictured, but he would stand much better chance, collecting, with the dog. And also the Thugs might think better, of attacking a bum, with a big Dog!
 
When I look at this picture I see a man that is holding on to the one comfort he has left. There are some people that will say "get a job you bum". transman is right it technically doesn't happen overnight, he didn't just wake up and say "Shoot, where did my house go? Well at least I got ma dawg" but it can happen quickly enough to where it can't be "fixed". Some say "I did this and I did that while this was happening to me and if I can do it so can everyone else". That's great and I applaud them for being a hard worker with good ethics but this guy doesn't look like a spring chicken anymore which can and does make it harder to find work. Sometimes people have bad things happen to that they cannot control. Instead of thinking about how this guy needs to get rid of his dog because it's just a dog. Think about it like this. Maybe this guy got laid off with a very little notice in this economy. He never did anything wrong. He is a hard worker, was never late, and never called out sick. He spread his 5 vacation days throughout the year so as to not miss a whole week of work. But, the company decides he needs to go because business is slow even though he has been there the longest, knows the job better than everyone there, other employees have come and gone, and he gets paid the same as everyone else. At this point what is he supposed to do? Run out and find a new job that very same day? That normally won't happen these days. Get on unemployment? What if he gets denied? After a month or two bills are racking up. Things are getting shut off. Then Ultimately he looses his home. Now he is homeless with his dog and he tried everything he could to "fix" it. I know this guys story very well because I am living it right now with a few exceptions. I get unemployment but it is not what I was making and bills will be tight. I am lucky to have a landlord that has been through being laid off and didn't kick me and my family out when I couldn't pay rent until taxes came back. When I got my taxes back I paid my rent up to June and paid all of my bills. Am I looking for a job? You better believe I am but there aren't a lot of them out there. If it hadn't been for my faith I would be living on the street right now with my dog sleeping in my Jeep. All I'm trying to say is instead of looking at this thinking this guy's dog is just a burden to him. Think of that dog as his last comfort he has to a crappy chain of events that he had no control over. Oh, McDonalds doesn't hire everyone I've tried and apparently having a degree is over qualified for flipping burgers. Just FYI.
 
Everyone wants to go on about scenarios. Its a picture of a homeless man and a dog. Dogs are great companions. No matter how shitty of a day you had, they are always happy to see you. I can understand that. I am an Officer with an Animal Control Department in North Carolina. We have a lot of panhandlers where I work. Most of them have dogs. I cannot tell you how many times I have responded to calls about a "homeless guy with a dog". I have never seen neglect in any of the cases I have investigated. All the dogs are well cared for, and honestly, they help them collect more money. I have responded to the same guy on the same street with the same dog for the last 5 years. He has flat out told me that when he brings his dog he makes more money. It makes sense to me, if you think about it not only does he get money from the people that feel bad for him, you get all the animal lovers that feel bad for the dog. I know that is not the case for everyone, but that is just what I experienced.
 
twistedjeepster said:
When I look at this picture I see a man that is holding on to the one comfort he has left. There are some people that will say "get a job you bum". transman is right it technically doesn't happen overnight, he didn't just wake up and say "Shoot, where did my house go? Well at least I got ma dawg" but it can happen quickly enough to where it can't be "fixed". Some say "I did this and I did that while this was happening to me and if I can do it so can everyone else". That's great and I applaud them for being a hard worker with good ethics but this guy doesn't look like a spring chicken anymore which can and does make it harder to find work. Sometimes people have bad things happen to that they cannot control. Instead of thinking about how this guy needs to get rid of his dog because it's just a dog. Think about it like this. Maybe this guy got laid off with a very little notice in this economy. He never did anything wrong. He is a hard worker, was never late, and never called out sick. He spread his 5 vacation days throughout the year so as to not miss a whole week of work. But, the company decides he needs to go because business is slow even though he has been there the longest, knows the job better than everyone there, other employees have come and gone, and he gets paid the same as everyone else. At this point what is he supposed to do? Run out and find a new job that very same day? That normally won't happen these days. Get on unemployment? What if he gets denied? After a month or two bills are racking up. Things are getting shut off. Then Ultimately he looses his home. Now he is homeless with his dog and he tried everything he could to "fix" it. I know this guys story very well because I am living it right now with a few exceptions. I get unemployment but it is not what I was making and bills will be tight. I am lucky to have a landlord that has been through being laid off and didn't kick me and my family out when I couldn't pay rent until taxes came back. When I got my taxes back I paid my rent up to June and paid all of my bills. Am I looking for a job? You better believe I am but there aren't a lot of them out there. If it hadn't been for my faith I would be living on the street right now with my dog sleeping in my Jeep. All I'm trying to say is instead of looking at this thinkiBut dont make assumptions ng this guy's dog is just a burden to him. Think of that dog as his last comfort he has to a crappy chain of events that he had no control over. Oh, McDonalds doesn't hire everyone I've tried and apparently having a degree is over qualified for flipping burgers. Just FYI.
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I feel for your situation, but will disagree with the theoretical bolded part. If he couldnt afford to save for a rainy day he couldnt afford to have a dog (or children) in the first place. Look your family's well being should be #1 and a solid plan for unexpected is part of planning for your families well being. Part of being a responsible adult means being prepared for the unexpected.

I guess I am just a hard ass. But when my son was born we turned off satelite, we cut off home and cell phones, we did not eat one meal out of the house and literally we didnt waste a penny until I had a "nest egg" that meant the next time I got laid off I was safe. 11 years later, my situation is much diofferent but that mindset is not.

Again my opinion differs from many, and I accept that.
 
Ron said:
I guess I am just a hard ass. But when my son was born we turned off satelite, we cut off home and cell phones, we did not eat one meal out of the house and literally we didnt waste a penny until I had a "nest egg" that meant the next time I got laid off I was safe. 11 years later, my situation is much diofferent but that mindset is not.
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Shouldn't the "nest egg" be set up before the kid is born?
 
Yep sure should. But I was young and dumb, my 1st child's birth was a wake up to me. ::beer::

Then again we all get woke up at different times, maybe THATS the backstory here
 
It is obvious that I have stirred some emotions and opinions, I was moved because the dog has a love no matter what. I am a dog person and always have been, when I was yo yoing from La to NYC 4 times a month with a CB and a dog to talk to it was the dog that was more important. All I'm trying to say is there are a thousand ways to interpret what the pic means to somebody. I am not a judge, just a dog lover.
 
I'm not typically one to give money to homeless people, however I was brought up with a kind heart so dont take it the wrong way please. Today I stopped at the gas station to fuel up and some guy came over and started asking me for some random amount of change and I told him no. He started to get really mad at me saying he knows I can afford to give it to him because diesel is like 4 dollars a gal and i'm filling my truck up. I asked him what he wanted the money for? he said he wanted to buy newspaper. I told him I would buy him one on one condition. he asked whats that? I said when I go pay for my fuel I will grab the paper of your choice and bring it out to you. he agreed but didnt look very happy. I realize he wanted the money for other reasons but thats what he said he wanted so thats what i gave him.
As for the above picture I dont think that because the guy is homeless doesnt mean he cant have a dog as people have said above. I have had a dog ever since I was a little kid and they aren't just a pet they are family. I do feel like there could've been something the guy could've done to prevent where he's at right now. the gov't has options out there. welfare, food stamps, disability, etc... I'm very thankful that I was able to join the navy. I had a bunch of debt before I joined and of obviously the economy sucks. I lived in barracks on base and lived on the ship and didnt eat out and worked hard to pay off my debt. I'm not saying the military is for everybody but its been 4 years and now i'm completely debt free and have the most amazing wife. If it wasnt for my joining the military and hard work and dedication I may very well have ended up in this position.
Maybe the guy could go to a shelter and clean him self up and do odd jobs or something to earn money instead of sitting on the corner begging for it. It wouldn't be an overnight fix for his problems but I guarantee with hard work he could do something with his life.
 
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