car-dump

Hi. Please, tell me, what did the author mean by using "car-dump" in this context:

Regular farm dogs hereabouts, they’ll tear off and disappear, except you can hear them howling and barking at night. Other dogs, people car-dump them at the side of the road. Abandoned.

Did he mean that people throw away the dogs from their cars to get rid of them?

Thanks in advance, Dmitry.

You are correct, Dmitry. It means that people "dumped" the animals from their cars; they threw the dogs out of the car as if the dogs were garbage.

I would add that "car-dump" may not necessarily imply that it was done from a moving vehicle.

Thank you.

bibliolept, according to your post the usage of this expression is not limited by using in motor context, right? Can you give an example, please?

Dmitry.

Dimmas, what I meant to say is that perhaps people don't throw them out the window while the car is actually in motion.

Oh. Okay. Now I've got it. Sorry.

Hi Dimmas

I lived for several years near a small village in Eastern Texas. People from near-by cities (who had gotten tired of looking after a dog or a cat or a pet rabbit) would sometimes drive by our home (which was in the country), stop and "dump" their animal (force them out of the car or truck).

We "adopted" many of these abandoned dogs and a few rabbits. People from cities sometimes assume that we "country people" have time and space to care for the animals they don't want.... It makes my wife very angry that some city-dwellers have so little respect for pets....

The verb "car-dump" is very unusual though and I imagine that the author simply invented it to describe this ugly practice...

Albert

Alber_50, thank you very much indeed. Your story was so interesting to me.