Pound Dogs

[heva]

I know alot of people turf dogs out and use the pound as a way of dealing with them.......i know some dogs are stolen and moved to different areas.......

i know 7 days isnt very long to find your pet.

But if my dog went mising i would search heaven and high water for it! and would start with local pound that seeming to make sense in my eyes.

 

So how do ppl actually lose their dogs........like the size of some that come in through RDR pound and others .......i think........i would notice if my st bernard was missing.........personally i would notice if my tiny yorkie was missing.....

But even the ones that get claimed i would love to know how they lost them.........how do you lose a 10wk old pup??!?!

 

 

And this week...........how do you lose a 3 legged dog that has obviously had money spent on him to have the op done!

 

 

 

I just dont understand!!!!

[Rudi]

This always amazes me too. The closest I have come to losing a dog is a long time ago, I went out to the car one evening, my rottie stayed on the sofa but my cocker spaniel followed me out and I went back in without realising she was still out there but after a couple of minutes, something felt wrong and I looked for her around the house and then the penny dropped and I opened the door and she was sitting on the step. The feeling of panic was awful, I can remember it clearly, but she seemed quite relaxed and just trotted back in with her tail wagging.

 

I've found lots of dogs and if they are tagged, I take them home. If that was me, I'd be so excited to see the dog, I probably be in tears but very few people are over the moon or particularly anxious that the dog was gone. Some aren't aware and some wonder why you bothered bringing them home at all. I always wonder what they have a dog for.

[ReikiAnge]

I suspect a lot of people don't know where to start looking when they lose a dog - I'm sure most of us here are familiar with our local dog warden/stray kennels/pound/rescues but not everyone is. You also read of the times when someone has reported their dog missing and someone has reported finding the same dog as found, but the records don't get matched I know people are always urged to visit local pounds etc too rather than relying on phone calls as sometimes owners have been told their dogs aren't there and then a visit has proven otherwise.

 

I think also that you get plenty of people that really don't care very much for their dogs and if they're gone, they're gone. I recently read of two dogs that had gone missing. They were then located at a stray kennels but the owner won't apparently pay the release fee so they're hopefully going to be rehomed. I have no idea how you can value a dog's life that little but hopefully the dogs will be more appreciated in their next home.

 

You do also get people who are very grateful for their dogs being returned - we helped one dog after Rob found her in the road. She spent a night at the local stray kennels (I knew there was no risk of pts or she'd not have gone there) and the police were very good in that case at matching the dogs and giving the owner my details when they realised she was missing. They wanted to give us a reward but of course we were just glad she was safe and had a good home, so they sent us a lovely bouquet of flowers.

[yena]

Having adopted pound dogs from the Dogs Trust, I can understand why some go missing. Morgan, scared of anything that moved, probably ran off when he heard a loud ban, Monty, an old person dog and they probably didn't know where to look. What I can't understand is why when they are wearing a collar haven't they got a dog tag on, even if it just had a telephone number. I know sometimes dogs do get out without your realizing, it happened the other day with Morgan and Dilys OH thought he'd shut the gate and he hadn't. When he realized he found Morgan by the side of the house. Dilys, luckily he heard her barking, she was a couple of houses down the street. I think had he not found them, he would of dreaded phone me up to say they'd got out, Dilys is only 24 weeks old and a little diddy yorkie puppy .

 

I don't think people realize just now important they dogs wear a collar with a tag is, if they want them back. On the other hand if you just don't want your dog you'll just take the tag off and let it roam

[blackmagic]

Several years ago, one of my neighbours was looking after her mother's dog, while she was on holiday. The dog ran out of the door and was gone, in a strange place.

 

My neighbour contacted the police and the stray kennels. The kennels said they didn't have any dogs of that description. She phoned every day and was dreading telling her mother she had lost her dog.

On the day before her mother returned she decided to visit the kennels. They still assured her that they didn't have any dogs of that description, but she asked to look round - and , yes, she found her mother's dog, who had been there since the day that she ran off.

 

This was not a busy big kennel but a small local kennel.

 

I recently saw a case on Dog lost where a westie went missing from a relative's house while the owner was on her honeymoon. They didn't tell the owner as they didn't want to upset her.

 

They contacted the police and the RSPCA, but didn't know about the dog warden, and nobody told them.

When the couple returned they contacted the dog warden, but unfortunately, although the dog had been found it had been pts after seven days, because it was considered not rehomeable, due to a skin condition.

 

Both cases show how important a collar tag, with the correct contact details on, is.

 

A friend oftens takes care of friends' dogs while they are on holiday and the first thing she does is put a tag, with her details, on the dog's collar, just in case.

[ranirottie]

some of you may remember this little fellow. He was wandering around our village, and dodging cars, for a while before some kids caught him and brought him to me. We don't have any stray dogs here so he was immediately noticeable.

He had done a runner out of an open door and it as a few minutes before his family realised that he had gone. They phoned the police, who took a report, and then they went out looking. Meanwhile, once he was brought to me I phoned the police only to be told that no lost dogs had been reported. About an hour later the couple turned up on my doorstep to claim the dog, I think the kids told them where he was. They were distraught about losing him. It turned out they only lived a little way up the road to me!! I was so annoyed with the police. They claimed it was a mistake over going from one ledger to another, or something like that, but it does show how easy it is to lose a dog.They were overjoyed to get the little devil back x

 

[buddyboy]

One of my neighbours got followed home by a friendly akita - her dog was fine with him outdoors but would not let him into the house so she took him to the police station. The person there took her details then wrote him in as a GSD..... when my neighbour said she thought he was an akita the person just asked if she was sure to which she had to say no, so he stayed on the books as GSD. Luckily that idiot had gone off shift when the owners were ringing around, and someone went out to check what was actually in the kennels, so they were reunited. (ps he was chipped but no scanner at that station, neighbour offered to take him to station where there was a scanner but was told the paperwork had been done so he had to stay at the first one!)

[Cafferysmum]

Pudsey our collie, is a fantastic dog and 7 years ago, while he was getting out of car to front door, distance of about 8 ft... someone let a firework off near him and he bolted...

 

Hubby ran in as he belted up the road towards the main road...and got the car keys and we all went after him, we got up to the main road and their was one of 4 ways he could have gone, but we searched everywhere for him and at 5am in the tired hubby said we will start in the morning again... I was fuming with hubby saying how dare he wanted sleep

 

That night was the worst night ever the house didnt seem complete... and although we were in bed didnt sleep thinking of how frightened he must be on his own in the dark and flaming fireworks going off...

 

Well hubby got up at 8am and started looking around the parks and forests as theirs quite a few near us, but no sign... I on the other had did posters at home and rang all the local rescues and the police and the dog warden... we even went to the rescues as well just incase he was over looked... and they forgot to ring us... We then contacted large organisations like local churches to say can you tell people to keep an eye out for him....

 

2 days in with more phone calls, we started going out of area like Altricham and Leigh as we are on the borders and Salford just in case he had walked over their, we put posters out and everything..

 

That day I was getting new dog tags and got Pudseys and I remember hubby saying whats the point he wont come back, i said we will and we will continue until we find him...and I put his tags in my purse and i just held em at night crying hoping we could find him..

 

In the evening on the second night we got a phone call from the dog warden saying a member of the public had seen a puppy collie in town near a shopping centre covered in blood like he had been hit, he had tried to approach him but he had growled, he had gone home to get a lead but when he returned he had gone...

 

Immediately phone calls and everyone shot up in cars around that area to see if we could find him and we shouted Pudsey and got our dogs to bark in case he could hear them... At 10pm at night we gave up and returned home heart broken...

 

On the third day we started searching within that vacinity, Pudsey is a pure bred collie and has a fantastic physicue so people who dont know thats what they supposed to look like could easily mistake him for a puppy.. as hes also double jointed and he can curl up really small... we were panicking that he was hurt and we were not their to protect him...

 

Then we got another phone call from dog warden, a lady had rang rspca to say their was a collie curled up near the fence in the cemetry... and she had gone home to get some nibbles for him and returned but by time she got into cemetry he had gone... we were annoyed with rspca cos we had left details with them and they had missed it, we could have been their within 5 mins... and they said ring the dog warden.. thank god she did and they rang us...

 

We went down and looked around and we wondered if he was trying to find his way home he was 3 miles away from us but was like 2 miles away now, wondered if he was retracing his steps home, so again everyone was out looking in that area...

 

We walked round cememtry and we were shouting Pudsey and no answer so night was upon us fast and i decided that he might return to the cemetry so we would go home get a sleeping bag and i would climb over at night and sleep where he was just in case he returned... hubby was signallying to go let when i said no go straight down that way.. he said but a couple just walked that way and said no collie was down that way... i insisted and we went down their, he was about to turn right and i said no continue and he tuted...

 

Was it fate but in a split second I turned and saw this little bum waggle through this park i had never noticed before it was so small and i said omg thats Pudseys bum wiggle, stoppppppppppp now.... erm i cant karen we are on the main road and its prob not Pudsey... A few chocie words and i said turn left and find an opening before i loose him again...

 

The car was pulling up to a little gate and i said get our dogs barking now so he might hear them and i jumped out of car while it was still running... their was this woman with a pushchair on a go slow, and im like omg get out of the way... i ran through the trees and i looked up and nothing he had gone...

 

My heart sank thought we had lost him again, then i turned round and he was stood still.... just looking at me... I went Pudseyyyyyyy its your mum and his eyes lit up and he flew at us.... he looked dirty and bedraggled and had blood on him... Hubby appeared through the bushes and Pudsey ran to him and had a cuddle and for the first time I saw him cry... We got him home and fed him and gave him water and cleaned him up, then we rang the vets to have him checked out..

 

Well he hadnt been in an accident at all, the blood was from his paws that were sore....and he was fine....

 

That day if someone had offered me a million pound i would have said keep it, we got Pudsey back...

 

Hes 11 now and and senior lol, after that time every time he gets out of car he has lead on, although i doubt he would run off again, i wouldnt taken the chance but would have searched everywhere and everyday for him until we found him.

 

We rang the dog warden to tell her the good news and she said its so nice to hear of someone trying to find their pet as a lot of people dont...

[heva]

Its so sad when people who actually care for their pets our out looking day and night and often its their pets that are not picked up.

 

but joe bloggs (sorry to anyone called that) who doesnt care or look for dog gets picked up by warden and is nice and safe and warm.

When i worked on reception at a rescue we would get loads of calls a day about lost dogs or found dogs and it was first thing i was taught about how to deal with ppl. We would go through all our record and even suggest ones that were even only slightly similar due to ppls lack of dog breed/colour knowledge etc..........

 

I rmb last yr some time driving along and in the misty/rain seeing two big white things a few hundred yards ahead and saying to OH oh my why are their sheep in the road (thwe middle of l'pool bare in mind) as we got closer and my eyes worked realised it was 2 akitas play fighting and bouncing round with some very confused police not knowing what to do! One copper had his belt off to try and catch it ?!:??!?

I got out with loop lead (which lives in car) and asked if they needed a hand.......well i have neevr seen anyone look so happy as they did shouting ....shes got a lead...!!!

I got a police escort as they ran up road and we cornered them in a garden........'turns out ti was their garden' i knocked on door and gace the woman a right ear full as she said they were in the back garden but barking too much so she kicked them out!

police didnt seem to care but question what breed they were as 'im sure there one of those illegal dogs'

at which i flipped my shouting at the woman to giving the copper a lesson on dogs and the law and how he should be dealing with said woman who didnt seem to give a dam about anything!!!!

 

Yet i rmb last year running round warrington looking for a greyhound with a totally distraught owner and never finding anything........ and she still looks out in rescues and pounds 18 months on.....

[Yantan]

Yet i rmb last year running round warrington looking for a greyhound with a totally distraught owner and never finding anything........ and she still looks out in rescues and pounds 18 months on.....

 

Oh that's heartbreaking

[GoldenOldie]

25 years ago my daughter and I were out with a group of walkers near the river Tawd and found an elderly labrador bitch covered in mud and slime on a ledge on a deep part of the water. She was rescued with the help of some of the men of the group and stretchered to my car and taken to my vet. She had evidence of a recent operation and was quite ill. After treatment by the vet (free) we took her home and reported to the usual agencies, police, RSPCA, local vets etc. No one came forward and she settled in with our pack. She was a dear old thing, very arthriticky and slow, contracted leptospirosis from the water but recovered and got her paws under our table. Some 4 weeks after finding her I got a call from my vet who said one of the nurses thought she belonged to a local family and had recently had an op. because of pyometra. The message was to give me the number of the family and "it's up to you what you do". I thought it strangely worded but didn't know the particular nurse in question and was bound up in returning this old lady to her family.

She was their dog, all turned out in force, grandma included, to collect her, mutual delight at the reunion but an alement of "haven't you found her a bit difficult needing to go out at night to wee and needing help as she's slow?" We said no problem, all age related etc. They happily drove off and I discovered that they had taken her the next day to be pts. Hence the cryptic message from the surgery without breaching professional confidence. A sad lesson.

[cackie]

As some of you may know my friends Staffie recently went missing from her home in Dover. She ate her way through 2 doors to get out of the house after being frightened by fireworks whilst her owner was at work. Her owner informed all the right people and contacted them daily but was told no such dog had been found. Tess was found almost immediatley and taken to safety and her rescuers also informed all the right people but were told no such dog had been lost. It was only through sheer luck that Tess was reunited with her family It bothers me very much that the so called 'right people' i.e. dog warden, police, local pound or kennels, can't be bothered to communicate with each other or check their missing or found dogs.

 

I am sure a lot of these dogs, especially the ones that appear to be well cared for, have owners desperately looking for them. Maybe if tattooing or microchipping became compulsary there would be less of a problem. My dogs all have microchips, tattoos and always wear their collars with an id tag so I am safe in the knowledge that I have done all I can to get my dog back if they go missing.

[Maly]

My mum once lost her small cavalier king charles spaniel as some idiot workment left the living room door open then the front door! I raced to shut them both but the dog was halfway down the street by then! Luckily we got her back....

At that time Pepe was only about 10 weeks old so as of yet hadn't been chipped. If anyone had found her I dunno what would have happened!

 

it really bother me that when you routinely take a dogs to a vet, they never scan for a chip and check the details on the computer are yours! How many dogs are in the wrong hands that have bene chipped etc but no-one has checked them!

 

Little OT but I know of a person in Newcastle that is the most uncaring person when it comes to dogs. She's had no less than 5 in the past 5 years - 1st was a deaf dalmation that she just got sick of so gave back to the breeder (at 3 years old). Next was one of those dready dogs - again she got sick of him so she left the door open for him to run off. 3rd was a lovely pedigree rottie who her husband punched square in the face then when he held his hand in his mouth firmly (not bit, just a 'hey, watch it sonny!' gesture) whisked him off to the vets to be pts saying he had bitten their 3 year old son! Next was a bulldog, he lasted 6 months before hubby 'found him dead'. PM confirmed he had a ruptured windpipe. Hmmmmmm. Now they've got another bulldog, he's 2 and he's got all sorts of problems. I've now (with the help of the RSPCA) managed to convince her that he is her last dog!

 

I was reading a thread on some dog furm yesterday and a girl whose profile says she is a kennel hand said 'Staffys? I was wondering what you were all talking about but now someone's said pit bull I know exactly what you mean. We get loads of em in here and they're all put down straight away cos they're banned dogs' !!!! And she was a kennel hand!!! I must try to find a link when I get home. I dread to think how I'd feel if my AmBull went missing and instead of scanning her for a chip some idiot just said 'oh another pit bull, best put her down'!!

[Yantan]

I was reading a thread on some dog furm yesterday and a girl whose profile says she is a kennel hand said 'Staffys? I was wondering what you were all talking about but now someone's said pit bull I know exactly what you mean. We get loads of em in here and they're all put down straight away cos they're banned dogs' !!!! And she was a kennel hand!!! I must try to find a link when I get home. I dread to think how I'd feel if my AmBull went missing and instead of scanning her for a chip some idiot just said 'oh another pit bull, best put her down'!!

 

It's frightening really that some people work with dogs and know so little But you try and steer them towards another way of thinking! They will tell you that they know what they are doing and have been doing this for xxxx amount of time... yadda yadda....

 

Hope I never stop learning or close myself to the possibilities.