This morning at work (boarding kennels) a gentleman brought in a male black lab, he said he saw it running down the road as he was on his way to work, so picked it up and asked us if we could put it in the kennels. We did obviously and made a few phone calls around the village we think it has come from.

A few hours later a man rang up enquiring about the dog, he was so annoyed that someone had picked him up and said "i haven't got time for all this" WHAT!! i said, he says that pple shouldn't take it upon themselves to pick up other pple's pets off the street and as he was busy he would collect it later. NO thankyou or nothing. I pointed out to him that the dog could have got run over and he should be more responsable blah blah blah.

Up to now 6.30pm he still hasn't collected his dog and he is so gorgeous too! some people make me sick

People like that Jacki do not deserve to own a beautiful dog.They make me sick too!



Sue

sorry, but i hope he does'nt pick the dog up, it deserves better than that.

Hiya Jackie,
Some people :( Wouldn't give a toss for anyones help - Should the kind man have left the poor dog wandering the streets to be knocked over - It's mad :( The owner should have been more careful in the first place !!!
Sharon

my thoughts exactly :)

The world is going nuts. People have no gratitude or manners to say nothing of never thinking of the consequences of their actions. It's a shame that the poor dog has to be out of his home.

The owner should think himself lucky that the dog was not handed into the local pound where often you have to pay a release fee to get the dog back. On the other hand, if the local pound has a decent rehome scheme, the poor dog is not so lucky that he wasn't handed into the pound. I hope you charge him for a day's boarding ;)

Poor dog, having such a careless (in both senses of the word) owner. If it was mine, I'd be worried sick. :(

Afew years ago some idiot opened my garden gate and let my dog out. He was only outside for about 10mins when I went out to get him in but he was gone. I spent over 2 hours driving around the town and had almost all my local family out looking for him. In the end he was at my sister in laws neighbours house. He had been there for well over an hour. I was over the moon to get him home safe and sound.

I picked up gorgeous elderly Springer Spaniel on a busy main road recently, put her safely in the back of the car and asked at local houses for her owners. The (sadly) predictable reply was - "that house over there - she is always loose on the road". When I knocked at the house a woman came to the door "Oh, you naughty girl, have you been off again!! etc. etc." I was furious - not "naughty girl" just useless owners! I wish I had just left her in the car and kept driving - she deserved better in her old age, and I don't suppose she would have been missed, they would just have assumed she had been run over! So sad, so unnecessary!

We had a Standard Poodle follow us whilst we were over the field one evening, there was no one else about so we had to take him home with us. After wandering around the estate for a while asking anyone and everyone if they knew whos dog it was we were finally directed to the right house, we never got a thank you, I suggested they get a name tag for him and all they did was grunt and shut the door - charming !! The dog wasnt in a particularly nice state - a few matts, dirty bottom so next time I might be tempted to keep him !!

I don't know what will happen tomorrow but we can't keep the dog with us, he will have to go to rescue kennels in a few days if the man doesn't collect him :(

I live in an area where 'latch key' dogs are the norm.One man has just got rid of his GSD cross-18 months old (don't know where too) and got a rottie X pup cos he wants a dog that won't run off!!!! I told him to try shutting the b####y door!!!
Archer

:D @ Archer

I hope he was presented with a great big bill for kenneling costs and vets fees to check he had not been hurt ;)

Perhaps he may think twice and get the dog secured properly .

Lucy

He still hasn't collected the dog!!! :( poor thing, i've walked it this morning and it seems very well trained, walked to heel and just sits really quiet in the kennel, no barking or anything. He looks around 2/3 yrs old and is really lovely such a shame he has a p**t for an owner!

Well it sounds although he doesn't want the dog so I would get in touch with lab rescue and see what they think. Poor lad , sounds although he would be better off in a home where he is wanted and will be loved.

Lucy

:mad ...... what an idiotic pratt.

I used to have a Rough haired Collie, and she got out a couple of times, and both times i went for hours looking for her. When people did phone to say they had her, I was for ever greatful, and relieved.

Other times I have picked up strays wondering the streets, one occasion I went to the owners house, he wasn;t it, so I was going to drop it off at the police when some one shouted me some thing along the lines of "oi thats my dog" I gave it back ... he just took it and walked off with out a thanks or anything..... I should have just kept it and found it a better home!

Some people :mad

I know how you feel, I found a dog loose in the village a couple of years back and it took a liking to Diz, so I clipped a lead on it and took it home. Rang the owner (had a tag on) and he said 'oh just let it go, he wanders about by himself' and he lives up on a farm down the main road into the village, poor thing could have got run over. So we saw him again and he followed us back and we kept him with us for the day, porr little mite was starving, never seen a toy before, he was a lovely little dog. Never saw him again, after him being gobne all day maybe they decided to lock him in, I don't know.
Gina

Up the road from where my mum lives a man has a black cocker spaniel which every day he lets out of the house - you see the dog running the streets doing it's 'business' on peoples front gardens and then about half hour/ an hour later the guy comes down the road in his car, leans over to open the passenger door and the dog jumps in! He's obviously letting the dog out on purpose!!!! We couldn't beleive it and hubby went out to his car one Sunday to have a few choice words and made him come and clean my mums lawn!

Haven't seen the dog since. Hope hubby did the trick and it's not that the dog was run over which is probably more likely as there's no telling people like that.

Several years ago, when I lived in Essex a man lived about 3 doors away from us, had a big black cross breed. He used to let his dog out every morning & it would immediately come in our drive & do its business, so after several warnings, I collected this dogs poo one morning, knocked on the mans door & when he opened it I dropped the said poo on his feet.... that did the trick..

thats the best thing i've heard this morning, some people have got the bare face cheeck to let their dogs do anything anywhere, i admire you composure over the matter, if it was me id of probably been arrested or something for abh on a man with dog poo!!:)

steph.

just to let you know the dog was collected by his owner yesterday, i wasn't there cos i was at driffield show but he was charged for boarding :)

Unbelievable. If my dog was missing and I knew where she was I'd be there in seconds. Don't care how many speeding tickets or stop lights I ran.

GOOD for charging.

How awful for the poor dog.

Wendy

glad you charged him,:-)
I was hopeing he wouldnt turn up then at least he would get a chance to have another owner that might love and care for him, poor boy :-(

Could the Police actually do that?
Cos really you are just returning something that does belong to the owner of the dog- indirectly may it be!
She

Well at least he turned up for it, whether thats a good thing or not we'll never know...and you did the right thing for charging that man!

Just a few months back as I was pulling into my drive, an elderly GSD X trotted in. She had a collar on, but no tag. She was a real darling, but I couldn't keep her overnight. Phoned the police etc to see if reported missing but no. So took her up to the Rescue Centre where I'm a volunteer homevetter.

Next morning I got a phone call from the police to say that the owner had reported her missing. They gave me the owners number and I rang them and explained the dog was at the rescue centre. They were really grateful, she'd recently lost the tag off her collar. It turned out that she lived at number 108, and I live at number 46!! But they had to pay £35 to get the dog back!

Katrina

We have a very irresponsible neighbour a few doors down who [1] has three dogs but only likes two of them, so third one gets completely ignored, [2] only takes the other two out about once a month, [3] bought the Rottie a year ago, "as a guard dog", so the dog has had NO socialisation with dogs or children other than her own. The "unwanted" dog is always getting out, poops in other people's gardens, runs all over the road etc etc., about two months ago it got out and got run over. She went running down the road after it, apparently screamed and shouted at the car driver who was trying to comfort the dog, however the car driver took her details and is now apparently suing neighbour for damage to her car - good for her I say, might make her think twice about the way she treats her dogs - although somehow I doubt it. Nicki

About 3 years ago, my husband picked up a labrador running around on a busy road. He took it to the vet to see if it was chipped and to check it over. The vet said he'd inform the police and my husband bought the dog home while we waited. The owners were traced and came to collect him telling us he was 'always wandering off'. Two weeks later on the same stretch of the busy road, my husband saw a dead labrador, we presume it was the same one. I really wish we had kept him and never let the owners know.
Lorna

oh thats so sad, don't these pple ever learn?

So sad, the dog poor dog does not stand a chance on a busy road. My daughter was driving home on a exceedingly busy A road duel carriageway from London when two dogs ran across the carriageway, automatically to avoid them she braked after checking her mirror. The dogs were ok, unfortunately three vehicles behind her were not they were all driving too close and all three went into each other one was a right off. Fortunately no one seriously hurt although all emergency services involved. My daughter was very shaken but was unscathed. No sign of any of the dogs owners or the dogs all totally oblivious of the mayhem their dogs had caused which could have meant serious injury or even fatality. Why do they let dogs roam free neer busy roads I can never understand.

I was driving along quite a busy local road at night some years ago, and there was a little scruffy black terrier type standing in the road - just standing there, waiting for Christmas!!! We saw him in our headlights.

I stopped and managed to get hold of his collar and we took him home in our car. There was a tag on so we took him to the address, and the man who opened the door said, "oh right, thanks, we didnt' know he was out." HOnestly! The dog was over a mile away from his home

And we realised why he had stood so still in the road that night: poor thing was completely blind.

Lindsay