Missing dog
- Thread starter Jae Swift
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This is a discussion forum after all. His dog is no longer lost, everyone hopes he gets it back. We are just discussing the whole dog warden/escaped dog thing now.
What are your feeling on the £70 - do you think it is a good enough deterrent to keep dogs off the streets on their own?
Yolanda you are spot on...this a dog who got lost.
Not a mugging...although I think the dog and it's owner have been mugged.
I think the answer has got to be, dont leave yourself open to the smart arsed comments from the chosen few who are hell bent on making a small issue into a catastophe.
Yolanda you are spot on...this a dog who got lost.
We are all glad that the dog has been found.
Not a mugging...although I think the dog and it's owner have been mugged.
That is what we are debating now......the £70. Some think it's too much, others don't think it's enough.
I think the answer has got to be, dont leave yourself open to the smart arsed comments from the chosen few who are hell bent on making a small issue into a catastophe.
Thankfully, catastrophe was avoided thanks to a vigilant dog warden.
Edit......I've messed up with the quoting, all bits in blue are mine, not Royboy's
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Thankfully, catastrophe was avoided thanks to a vigilant dog warden.
I am not allowed to say Bullsh1t...but I will go for it anyway
Im sorry to be rude but u werent only talking about the 70 pound charge, you were all talkin abot if a child gets out of wether he left the door open or wether it was the bin men, loads of expeculations( dont know if thats how its spelled) anyway the poor man made a mistake or the bin men did , who knows, who cares, the 70 pound charge, a disgrace! just give the poor bloke his dog back your thieving dog wardens!!
Please don't be offensive to the Dog Warden, he is not a thief, unless you can prove otherwise, he is only doing his job. He has rules to follow and he is doing a good job. I was talking with him a couple of weeks ago and he was explaining that he spends quite a lot of time in schools educating children about dogs.
Something else for you to think about.
What are the odds that our one dog warden for the whole of the Borough, just happened to spot this dog?
More likely that one of Jae's neighbours reported that the dog was out to the dog warden who was then obliged to follow it up.
£70 sounds about right to me, and the scenario that Neil has just mentioned sounds about right too. ( Bear in mind you can get a fine of about £60 for dropping a cigarette end, it's still a law that has been broken.)
I agree with you
If the dog was picked up before 5 p.m Panther (seems like Dog Warden's operating hours), then don't see the problem why he could not have returned it to the owner ... as per the guides laid down on the HBC site .. see my #8.
However, maybe, the dog didn't have a collar or was chipped ? This would be the only excuse for taking it to the kennels straight away. Jae hasn't been back on to give us any further details, which is a bit annoying .. mind you, perhaps doesn't want any more accusations of bad ownership, etc.
As for the binmen; if they were making a furniture collection, possibly Jae's household had asked them to collect on an open collection, which can be anytime within 10 days, so would have to leave the door unbarred.
Panther said earlier that it was a furniture collection so yes, they would have had to leave the door unlocked.
The binmen should have closed the door behind them but didn't, which is bad manners but not against the law as far as I am aware.
Even if the binmen had closed the gate behind them the dog could still have escaped in this scenario if it had darted out past the binmen as soon as they opened the gate.
I can't see how the dog getting out could possibly be the fault of the binmen.
I am not accusing Jae of bad ownership at all. I just think he made a mistake in this instance. The dog should not have been unsecured in the yard when a collection was due.
Maybe the binman did close the gate and someone else opened it later. Not fair to accuse the binmen unless you have proof they left it open.
You are assumming this is the first time the dog has been picked up - it might not be.
ok lets up the aunty now and totaly take the urine
time to get grism and his cerw in for finger print and DNA analasys
shoudl get another 3 or 4 pages now while we bicker about how grism is actually retired now or which CSI team would be best for teh job
Very true......never thought of that. We are just assuming the binmen left the gate open, aren't we?
Sorry, binmen, if you didn't leave the gate open.
