Rescue Centre rant
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Bit of a rant I’m afraid.
On Saturday I was driving down a fairly busy, narrow country lane and spotted 2 border collies hacking it in front of the car I was behind.
The car tooted and the dogs went down a drive. I pulled over as far as I could, grabbed 2 spare leads and managed to catch both dogs after they initially went back into the road and passing cars carried on, many without slowing down eve though it was clear what I was trying to do.
Anyway dogs caught I checked for tags or i.d, there were none. I muzzled my boy and loaded them into my boot and took them to the vets to be scanned. Arrived and no chip (surprise, surprise) the vets gave the dogs water and a look over. The long coated dog was extremely matted and had massive clumps of hair hanging off it and was very thin. The short coated b
h had a fabric muzzle on, a very sore eye and again very thin. The vets were great spending an hour attempting to get hold of a dog warden, which they did in the end and arranged collection from my house.
By this time I had grown attached to the male and my dog who can be grumbly was accepting him. At 3pm a lady from a kennel who does out of hours collections on behalf of the council came to collect the dogs and I asked her to let me know if the dog hadn’t got a home after his 7 days as I would consider re-homing him.
30mins later I had a call to say the dogs had escaped from the exercise area of a local rescue centre. Now I know most centres do a sterling job, but wouldn’t you expect them to lead by example and have correct id and chip their dogs before allowing them in an unsupervised area (also an unsupervised area with dogs who aren’t used to each other is a bad idea surely). They must have not noticed for a while as my vet rang the vets local to the area and none had any reports of lost dogs, which would be my first port of call. Anyway she said she had passed my details to the centre as a possible new home for the dog.
4 days later and I haven’t heard anything, in the mean time I did decide that I was letting my heart rule my head and another dog wouldn’t be a good idea at the moment. However I caught their dogs, had to cancel my plans to look after them and was a prospective new home for one of them, surely a courtesy call would be on the cards?
On Saturday I was driving down a fairly busy, narrow country lane and spotted 2 border collies hacking it in front of the car I was behind.
The car tooted and the dogs went down a drive. I pulled over as far as I could, grabbed 2 spare leads and managed to catch both dogs after they initially went back into the road and passing cars carried on, many without slowing down eve though it was clear what I was trying to do.
Anyway dogs caught I checked for tags or i.d, there were none. I muzzled my boy and loaded them into my boot and took them to the vets to be scanned. Arrived and no chip (surprise, surprise) the vets gave the dogs water and a look over. The long coated dog was extremely matted and had massive clumps of hair hanging off it and was very thin. The short coated b
h had a fabric muzzle on, a very sore eye and again very thin. The vets were great spending an hour attempting to get hold of a dog warden, which they did in the end and arranged collection from my house.By this time I had grown attached to the male and my dog who can be grumbly was accepting him. At 3pm a lady from a kennel who does out of hours collections on behalf of the council came to collect the dogs and I asked her to let me know if the dog hadn’t got a home after his 7 days as I would consider re-homing him.
30mins later I had a call to say the dogs had escaped from the exercise area of a local rescue centre. Now I know most centres do a sterling job, but wouldn’t you expect them to lead by example and have correct id and chip their dogs before allowing them in an unsupervised area (also an unsupervised area with dogs who aren’t used to each other is a bad idea surely). They must have not noticed for a while as my vet rang the vets local to the area and none had any reports of lost dogs, which would be my first port of call. Anyway she said she had passed my details to the centre as a possible new home for the dog.
4 days later and I haven’t heard anything, in the mean time I did decide that I was letting my heart rule my head and another dog wouldn’t be a good idea at the moment. However I caught their dogs, had to cancel my plans to look after them and was a prospective new home for one of them, surely a courtesy call would be on the cards?
I'm going to speak to my vet tomorrow, if it was just their weight I would have brushed it off as not knowing the condition they came in in. But the fact they had no id and the gap that seemed to have between escaping and being reported concerns me. As does the bh being exercised unsupervised with a muzzle on, if any of the dogs attacked her, she wouldn't be able to defend herself and no one would be able to stop it.
h being exercised unsupervised with a muzzle on, if any of the dogs attacked her, she wouldn't be able to defend herself and no one would be able to stop it. Gassing Station | All Creatures Great & Small | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff