Help Needed NOW Please in Huddersfield/Halifax Areas

SallyUK

Hi All

I'm so angry, I feel like I'm going to explode here.

While setting out to go shopping this afternoon, we came across another stray running wild in the street and causing chaos in the traffic. We (me and daughter) watched for a little while to see if it was with anyone but not a chance. There was a woman stood speaking on a phone and by this time me and daughter had got out of the car to try and see who the dog belonged to.

She explained she was the cleaner of the place where the dog lived and her boss had paid her, then left to go out somewhere, leaving her to finish cleaning. When she was leaving, she inadvertently let the dog and another dog out and they followed her. She said she didn't know the address of where she cleaned!!! She went on to say she was waiting for her boyfriend, as I had by now offered to put the dog in the car and take her and the dog back to where it lived, but she wouldn't!

So anyway to cut a long story short, I put the dog on a lead, rang up Council, Dog Warden, Police RSPCA etc etc and not one of them want to help - that is those who answered the phone!!!! Council said they'd only go out to dead animals, not strays who were causing traffic chaos, police too said they'd come out if the dog was still running amongst traffic, but wouldn't because I'd put a collar on it by now and it was sat at side of road!!! I explained I couldn't do take it and I asked them, "ok, so if I take the collar back off again and let it go running on the road, causing chaos, you'd come out then?" - at this point they hung up on me!!

I then decided to drive back to the area where the lady said it came from, and to ask if anyone recognised it. No one did. It slipped the collar a few times and I thought it might be able to sniff it's way home, but as soon I got back into the car, it came and sat by the car door waiting to be let in!

So, I've not got her in my back garden and I desperately need someone to take her from me as I can't keep her tonight - OH is being a grouch - so can someone who lives near to me plleeeeease help me out.

Oh and the other one apparently was hit by a car and is lying hurt somewhere!!!!

Thanks.

foreign_correspondent

I know you said you tried the council, but it sounds like you were given advice from the environment or highways dept, whose job involves collecting dead animals from the roads, but have you spoken to the dog warden?

Sally, was it you who found th little dog before? If I remember correctly you joined rescue helpers unite at the time, if so it may well be worth posting on there ASAP.

If you are unable to get on to post, please let me know what area you are in (PM me of you like) and the type of dog it is, and some contact details and I will post on there and see if anyone in thearea ca advise or help, however, really it is the job of the DW to collect this dog, scan it for a chip, try and re-unite it with its owner etc, but I know that they do not provide an out of hours service in some areas, and am not sure whether they all operate on sundays.

SallyUK

foreign_correspondent wrote: »

I know you said you tried the council, but it sounds like you were given advice from the environment or highways dept, whose job involves collecting dead animals from the roads, but have you spoken to the dog warden?

Sally, was it you who found th little dog before? If I remember correctly you joined rescue helpers unite at the time, if so it may well be worth posting on there ASAP.

If you are unable to get on to post, please let me know what area you are in (PM me of you like) and the type of dog it is, and some contact details and I will post on there and see if anyone in thearea ca advise or help, however, really it is the job of the DW to collect this dog, scan it for a chip, try and re-unite it with its owner etc, but I know that they do not provide an out of hours service in some areas, and am not sure whether they all operate on sundays.

Hiya FC

Yes it was me!

It's a female Doberman, very friendly and the OOH Dog Warden doesn't work at weekends!!!

I've tried everywhere I really have, so much so, I'm about to explode with anger, they don't care at all.

I'm just between Huddersfield and Halifax, thanks for your help again FC

Sal
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foreign_correspondent

ok, I will post it on RHU nd see if anyone can keep hld of it overh=night - in the meantime, I would say keep hold of it, it sounds as if it may have been stolen - the woman's story does not add up, and someone may also say it is theirs to get it to sell on..

foreign_correspondent

Sally, it is posted, will get back to you as soon as poss, but be careful if anyone tries to claim it, I think it should be scanned for a chip before you hand it over to anyone, especially being a pedigree.

orlao

Hi Sally

You need to ring your council again and demand that they tell you who they use to cover OOH - in my area it's a 24 hour vet surgery and they ask that you deliver the dog to them but they scan the dog and keep it until the DW is back on duty. The council is now legally obliged to provide a service 365/42/7 to deal with stray dogs but many (as you've discovered) will try and avoid that obligation.

Well done for keeping the dog safe.

Agree with FC that the woman sounds decidely dodgy.....

twinklie

Unbelievable. Thank God for people like you! My friend dropped dead on the park while walking his dog. The dog disappeared, we spent weeks trying to find it, but alas she disappeared. We contacted everyone in our local area and they were all incredibly unhelpful. The RSPCA and the dog wardens were actually quite rude.

Still, I can only hope shes happy. We have a lot of dog fighting round our way and it worries me. She was a pure bred staffy and very big for a girl.

How did you find out about the other one?

twinklie

orlao wrote: »

Hi Sally

You need to ring your council again and demand that they tell you who they use to cover OOH - in my area it's a 24 hour vet surgery and they ask that you deliver the dog to them but they scan the dog and keep it until the DW is back on duty. The council is now legally obliged to provide a service 365/42/7 to deal with stray dogs but many (as you've discovered) will try and avoid that obligation.

Well done for keeping the dog safe.

Agree with FC that the woman sounds decidely dodgy.....

Orlao is right about this...they often use a vet surgery for this.

foreign_correspondent

ok, just managed to find this info for your area:

Found dogs

If you find a dog roaming the streets and take it in, you can report it to the Dog Wardens during office hours and they will collect it.
If a dog is found in the evening, weekends or Bank Holidays you can take it by prior arrangement to the kennels. You must first report it to the Councils’ out of hours emergency number 01422 365101, obtain a reference number and then contact the kennels and make arrangements to drop the dog off at the kennels.

Good luck!

ETA - I have just googled the number and it looks like it is the ooh service for calderdale DC, who you have already tried - still, I would try them again armed with the above info which is from their own website!

http://www.calderdale.gov.uk/community/animalwelfare/dog-warden.html

SallyUK

Hi Folks

Well, I'm home again.

Sorry about rushing the typing of the original post, I was just so sooo mad.

According to her, she'd been cleaning the house where she works and the boss had came in, paid her the money she was due and then went off out somewhere. She said, she then went to leave some time later, and inadvertently let the dogs out(?) She said they followed her and kept running all over the road and that car drivers were passing by and sounding their horns at her and it was such a traumatic experience?? (never mind how the poor dogs were feeling!!!:mad, I said to her did she want to get in my car and I'd drive her to the house where she was cleaning, but she said she was waiting for her boyfriend (she must have been 60! lol) I then suggested that I follow him in his car and she said he didn't drive (?) Anyway she then went on to say that one had been hit by a car and had run off somewhere (which would explain why this one that I found was running around frantically searching for her friend, plus of course she was terrified and panicking).

When I approached the dog, she came right over to me and sat in front of me and let me put on a slip lead which I happened to have in the car anyway. She walked on it quite happily for a while and then after I was sure that there was no one else in that vicinity who was looking for her, I opened up the boot of the car and she jumped in quite happily.

I decided to drive back to the area where this lady said they'd came from, just in case someone would know who owned two Dobermans. I drove around for a while, asking people but no luck. At one point she was walking beside me and slipped her head from the collar and started running around on the road again!! Eventually, she came back running over towards me and waited by the car door for me to open it!.

I drove back home again and it wasn't exactly along the road, there was a fair distance between where she was found and where she allegedly lived.

When I got home, I put her into the large house we have in the garden (originally a cat house! lol) and then posted on some forums for help. By this time OH was getting grumpy and complaining in case I decided that I wanted her to stay with us overnight until I could get someone to take her tomorrow - lol.

So I decided yet again to go back to the area where she was from. This time I went into the local shops, local pub, spoke to a few people in the street, but no one knew anything.

By this time, (thanks to FC again!) had managed to get me a phone number and I rang some kennels who might be willing to take her in and sure enough when I rang them, they told me to take her there. It was another long drive, but well worth it if only to keep her safe overnight. They checked to see if she was chipped, which she was, so here's hoping that it's the original owners and they haven't sold her onto someone else who's dumped her and her mate. Unfortunately, there was no sign of the injured dog

Thanks to everyone who replied and especially to FC again for your help, it was very much appreciated.

Sal
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foreign_correspondent

No probs Sally, you have done loads of chasing around today, you are very kind for taking the time toget involved, pick this dog up and get her somewhere safe. (I expect plenty of people drove past, thinking 'not my problem')

It makes you wonder what happened, because that story really doesnt ring true - I wonder if she had let them out maliciously, or if they were stolen... also, I wonder what has happened to the other one? I hope they are chipped and can be re-united with their owner, the one you have been looking after sounds like a lovely friendly girl, so hopefully they have a caring owner somewhere looking for them.

Did you see the injured dog, or was that just told to you by the woman?