AmandaUK

It's not something I would do, but it's done now, so wishing you and baby Daisy a long and very happy life together. Don't let people get you down about it. Sometimes things just happen

Child, if it was my child or my puppy it would always be the child. For that reason it would always be the child.

He is determined to be on there

Poor little boy and his family, my heart bleeds for them. Alas Rottweilers are not getting good press with the history of killings recently My friend has the misfortune to live on a bit of a rough estate. A few weeks ago there was a terrible commotion outside, she said it sounded as though someone was being murdered. In a way they were, a Rottweiler had killed a Staffie in the street, just outside her home In fairness, I don't know which dog instigated the incident. Or if both or one dog was off leash. RIP little boy and dog.

I couldn't do it and think it's pretty awful. But that's just my perspective. I couldn't kill a perfectly happy little hen that I'd looked after for years, but then I would look on it as a "pet" and I obviously couldn't/wouldn't kill a pet, unless it was for health reasons and on vet advice. I can see where your friend is coming from when she said it was "sick." I agree up to a point, but can also see your point too. This hen was obviously livestock to be culled and eaten when the time was right, she was not a pet. Who killed her?

I agree with you. Some people are so keen to be "Judge, jury and executioner." Maybe, just maybe, there is something about all this that hits a nerve with them? Who knows? Please everyone. Keep Maddie and her whole family in your thoughts and send them love, not hatred. Stay positive

It should be kept in ind that plenty of mongrel/crossbred dogs are also sufferring from what would be considered hereditary problems. I have 2 friends who each have out and out mongrels sufferring badly with epilepsy. Another friends has a crossbreed which looks to have a little GSD in it and she has a severe heart murmur at only 2 years old...prognosis not good. I also know of JRT cross with early heart problems and severe alergy.

Of course it isn't, not sure what point you are trying to make? Surely breed is irrelevent? As is species.

Hope she continues to improve, have the RSPCA been informed, surely this is a case for them to investgate?

what a shame, still looking on the bright as possible side, it's good to know that people are still thinking of Madeleine

They musn't have anything else to worry about. Though I'd say that if he could leave over that, he was just looking for an excuse to do so anyway.

Wouldn't that be the best news ever Please let this be the breakthrough that many people believe to be still possible.

Just out of interest, how much do rescues pay per day to private kennels to care for the rescues they cannot place in foster care? Would it be any worse (and it must surely be better for the dog) to pay this to a well checked out foster carer? I can understand it me be a piddly amount? Do kennels charge a much reduced rate to rescues? Say just a couple of pounds or so for their food per day, depending on size of dog?

That is so lovely and very practical too. My friend has something like that for her oldie

I don't see why not if the people concerned have appropriate experience, the time and facilities to do so. Really it's no "worse" than people being paid to work in charity based kennels, say the Dogs Trust. Surely nobody would expect people to work there without pay? I know there will of course be volunteers there too. Whether it could be appropriately regulated or not, I'm not sure, but in theory it's fine, for generally the reasons jackin gives

Read the article posted by madmerle (folllow the link in her post) and it might make you think otherwise. The Portuguese police appear to have conveniently cleared up that child murder hunt. Though failed miserably to find the poor wee childs body. Here is a snippet. "He believes the answer to the case may lie in the disappearance of an eight-year-old Portuguese girl in 2004. Joana Cipriano vanished from a village just seven miles from Praia da Luz, where Madeleine disappeared. Neither body has been found. Joana's mother and uncle were jailed for her murder, but five police officers have now been accused of forcing false confessions out of them." Doesn't give you a lot of faith in the Portuguese police and all their supposed evidence and wild theories does it? And if the childs mum and uncle were not indeed guilty, who was and what a coincidence, 7 miles isn't far from where Maddie disappeared from

This is so very true and the negativity and dark imaginings of some people are doing nothing to help reunite Madeleine with her mum and dad. If people are unable to find it within themselves to send loving positive thoughts to the "situation" then please don't send anything. I believe thoughts are energy and sending such negativity out into the Cosmos does nothing to help anyone. That includes the people transmitting it. Please stay positive everyone and hope that whatever has happened to Maddie, she is found. I'll be lighting a candle for this little girl and her parents this morning and praying once again for her return and for her family too.

What an awful thing to happen to this poor girl, my thoughts are with all involved. So very tragic.

I am utterly horrified to read this and can't believe someone can openly post such a thing. I think you should be very careful about posting things like this. While her mum and dad have undoubtedly been neglectful in most peoples eyes, there is a big and quite horrible jump from this to hinting that you think they accidentally killed their child. This is turning into some macabre game of chinese whispers.

I really don't see anything strange about the way maddies mum behaved when she found her girl missing, the poor woman would have been in terrible shock. I don't thing it right that they left her, I wouldn't leave my dogs alone like that on holiday. However, I find the general attitude here towards her parents very cruel. How anyone can question their reluctance to return to the UK, I just don't know. I can totally understand it. How many mums or dads in their position would want to leave Portugal under these circumstances? It's like giving up on Maddie. Sure they will have to return home at some point, but I can understand perfectly why they find it so hard. I wonder if those saying they should be back home are parents themselves? How easy would they find it to walk away Whatever we believe of their actions, these parents need positive thoughts & compassion, not judgemental condemnation from (and I generalise) the public. At least that's my take on the subject.

I agree very much with you and wonder if those members involved with rescue would like the rescues they represent or help, linked with this kind of stunt? because I for one consider this does not reflect well on the rescues that are holding out their hands for the donations these poor little critters are bringing in. I question the ethics of the well known charities that are benefittting. They have lost a lot of credibility in my eyes and to a good few people I know, who are aware of this "adoption scheme." They are simply recycling the animals that they sell and that are returned, as well as the animals that grow too big to be cute anymore and so lose their sale value. Pet shops have no place within the animal welfare field, they are the source of so many unwanted small animals. A shop is not the place to keep animals. If it were puppies we were talking about here, there would be a riot. Don't small furries deserve the same concern?

That's an amazing picture, it should be in print! What kind of dog/s did you used to have, it looks like the image of a Greyhound or Deerhound. Certainly a big dog of some kind.

Thank's all Maybe there is a reason why these messages are always so very vague? It's strange how onnce we die we seem to forget so much, even our names! When it comes to may psychics!

Hope she continues to improve