I don't know how many of you read this article in the weekend papers, but the owner would like as much help as possible in finding out the truth about the loss of her poor dog.

How awful JG, of course dogs can panic and slip their leads, particularly with a stranger, it's one of the reasons why I would never use a kennel that walks the dogs. I'd rather know they were securely behind double fences.

If the story is true to leave that poor woman searching for her dog when they knew it was dead is absolutely unforgivable imo :-(

I agree; if they'd come clean at the outset, explaining that the dog had escaped and been killed by a car, having kept the body in deep-freeze to return to her, she'd have been terribly upset, but not have this trauma.

Dreadful story. When I worked in kennels the dogs weren't walked and some people were really displeased about that, but at least they were safe.

The best is where the kennel has a securely-fenced area within the secure boundary where the dogs can be taken for free play. That said I'd have thought it only common sense not to take them out at all during a thunderstorm, as fear of thunder is as well-known as fear of fireworks.

Fully agree on all points.

It just doesn't make any sense.

The Kennel owner states he was away looking after poorly relatives so he has housesitters in....ok...housesitters look after your house not your business.

If they were employed to look after the Kennels too then that means they are EMPLOYED by him and are not merely housesitters. I would expect a formal investigation to be done and if an animal had gone missing the relevant authorities notified, Police, Dog warden and the kennels insurance company.

That being said is it not an offence to not report hitting a dog? Should there not be a police report?

The attitude of the Kennel is disgusting, for him to say "I cant help you" is shocking. If someone left their pet in my care wether it was business or as a favour and the dog went missing i would be the one searching all hours for it.

>That being said is it not an offence to not report hitting a dog? Should there not be a police report?

The KC webpage on Dog Law says that if a dog is injured in a car accident, the driver must stop and give their details to the person in charge of the dog. If there is no person in charge of the dog, the incident must be reported to the police within 24 hours. The driver did stop and get help - it could be (the article doesn't say) that he gave his details to the person with the Kennel's van.

That is awful :(
I hope they find out what happened to thier poor dog.
I can't begin to imagine what they are going through, how disgusting of the kennel to be covering up the dogs death. The dog owners need to know what happened to thier dog to be able to grieve, they can't come to terms with thier dogs death if they don't know what happened and are getting different stories :( :(
What a horrendous thing for them to be going through :( :(

Terrible, and seems to make more sense that the dog has been killed and disposed of a roaming Dalmatian would be spotted and picked up pretty quickly, it would not be camouflaged in bushes etc, in fact it would stand out like a sore thumb and is too big to hide from everyday sight, they are not a breed that one would assume to be a stray.

As he has never been found dead or alive seems pretty clear cut to me that it is a cover up the poor dog has been disposed of, I would expect they are searching the property for a burial site too.

It is not very clear whether the said motorist phoned in confidentially and is unknown or whether he has come forward with his details and he has been police interviewed.

When I was a child my grandmothers neighbours dog escaped the kennels and turned up at her house, when she took it back they did not even know she had gone

The poor owner must have gone through so much anguish wondering what was happening to her poor dog, perhaps it is something as nastily simple in that the kennel owners insurance to the owner for a missing dog would be far less than that of a dead dog, not to mention the reputation of the kennel being marred.

I'm sure the truth will eventually come out, it usually does.

Poor dog and poor owner..............

Somebody I spoke to a few years ago told me of his 13 month old dogue who was staying in kennels, the girl walking him couldn't hold him and he got loose and killed the same way. They said that the dog was too strong from and that they are not to blame! I would rather any if my dogues if they ever stop in kennels be behind several locked metal gates. I hope he loses his buisness

>I hope he loses his buisness

Too bloody right!  I hope that the word spreads, and his business dies a death.  It is what he deserves.

It's the lying that gets me. 

> It's the lying that gets me

and me. terrible thing to happen but had they been honest from the outset the poor woman could have had closure and put it down to the fact that sadly these things do (rarely) happen.
I dont know how i'd cope if i was ever in that position. Thankfully i shouldnt ever need to use kennels. I hope this business goes under but doesnt tar all kennels with the same brush as there are some fabulous ones out there

Tragic, heartbreaking for the owners, I don't use kennels now but when I did it was a kennel that only exercised in a fenced run.  I wanted my dogs safe.  When I was a teenager and worked in a cattery over the summer the owner told me they had a cat in for three week stay, it died and she froze it and defrosted on owners return and said it had died overnight, so she'd get the three week boarding, I was horrified.

> Tragic, heartbreaking for the owners, I don't use kennels now but when I did it was a kennel that only exercised in a fenced run.  I wanted my dogs safe.  When I was a teenager and worked in a cattery over the summer the owner told me they had a cat in for three week stay, it died and she froze it and defrosted on owners return and said it had died overnight, so she'd get the three week boarding, I was horrified.

dreadful- but still better then saying escaped and poor owner desperatly searching and imagining all manner of terrible situations their pet in