Stray dogs

Re: Stray dogs

Kim Buckley — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:20:31 GMT

I've had a call tonight about a stray dog and had to give them the dog wardens OOH number. We don't really see that many stray dogs round here. Currently have 3 stray cats in the hospital though!

Re: Stray dogs

Sandra Taylor RVN, MBVNA — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:58:05 GMT

After having a chat with our local dog warden today, I was surprised that he was saying that they were extremely quiet and had been for a long time.He was putting it down to people taking better care of their pets now than in the past.So certainly from my part of the copuntry there does not seem to be much of an issue

Re: Stray dogs

Laura x — Tue, 05 May 2009 22:42:46 GMT

Yeah they never do turn up!! We had a stray snake brought in and they asked if one of the staff could take it home for a couple of days until they could come for it!! Errrrm no, we have no vivarium and no food...come get it now!!! Grrrrrrr

Re: Stray dogs

Claire Cameron — Tue, 05 May 2009 20:43:42 GMT

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We recently had a lurcher with a broken leg tied to the drain pipe outside of our surgery, the RSPCA said it was not classed as abandonment as the owner may come back!!!!

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Thats ridiculous!

We had two cats (one pregnant) dumped in a skip in a bag near our practice recently and the RSPCA told me they'd come and collect them, I told them I could keep them all week but we were a branch so no staff at weekends so needed them collected by Friday and they said that was fine, so I looked after them all week as they said they could only do end of week.

Guess what, they didnt show! Wouldnt answer any phone calls

Re: Stray dogs

Laura x — Tue, 05 May 2009 20:32:09 GMT

We recently had a lurcher with a broken leg tied to the drain pipe outside of our surgery, the RSPCA said it was not classed as abandonment as the owner may come back!!!! Told me to get in touch with local dog warden.....what exactly do the RSPCA do these days???

Re: Stray dogs

Sarah Cahill — Tue, 05 May 2009 18:15:56 GMT

A few months back we had a staffy dumped on us - we heard the front door go and when nobody appeared went to look and there was one sitting in the lobby - she was a lovely dog. A few days after we also had another staffy handed in. Both dogs were well behaved and appeared to be well socialised. We are also a PDSA PetAid practice so if money was tight for these owners there was always options for them.

Both dogs went to the local council kennels for re-homing.