"Collection Fee" for stray dog

victoriav

libertysurf wrote: »

May be someone got fed up with all the barking. Video cameras in homes when the dogs are left alone show high levels of stress in the dogs, which the owners never see. They only see rapturous welcome-homes from relieved dogs.

A dog roaming the streets is a potential menace to traffic, horses, other dogs, and children so thank heaven for wardens. If wardens are on some sort of bonus system then it can only keep the streets free of pack dogs. More power to them.

If the dog was a a happy one then they would have high tailed it home once free. But being shut up alone all day in a garden just wasn't enough for it; although you thought it was just dandy.

what a lot of unsubstantiated perceptions....

victoriav

NeilF3485 wrote: »

Nobody is saying it couldn't be smashed off, only that it makes the task a little more onerous and conspicuous than just opening an unlocked gate!

I hope this thread gets closed soon, it really is ludicrous.

Go away then neil....bye..

merlin68

Have you actually thought that the dog jumped the fence. A dog can clear 6 foot easy especially if a cat is in the vicinity.
Next doors dog jumped over my fence and climbed up on the shed. I couldn't believe it. He was chasing my poor little cat.

vyle

merlin68 wrote: »

Have you actually thought that the dog jumped the fence. A dog can clear 6 foot easy especially if a cat is in the vicinity.
Next doors dog jumped over my fence and climbed up on the shed. I couldn't believe it. He was chasing my poor little cat.

I thought that, but OP mentioned in a later post that the gate had been left open.

OP, you probably won't see this, but alas, if your fence is low enough that people can see into the garden, leaving the back door open is an invitation for trouble.

Yes, somebody may have broken into your garden, thus releasing the dog outside, but you can't prove who did that, and so you haven no leg to stand on.

The dog wardens got your dog, and are charging for release. If you knew who broke into your garden and could prove it, you could take them to court to pay your costs and probably reimburse you for a collar, but you don't and can't. It's not going to go anywhere. You've got your dog back.

As a dog owner for 15 years (before he died of old age), when our dog was young, and we had to leave him (though we never did it for more than a couple of hours at most) we put newspaper down for him. it really is too risky to leave the dog in any situation where people can potentially get at them, because people are evil scum and WILL do callous things from trying to rob your house, to kidnapping your dog just so they can kill it on webcam.

Think yourself lucky you got your dog back and move on.

bod1467

Time for this thread to be put down methinks.

squeaky

I've queried this thread with the Forum Team on more than one occasion.

As you see - it's still here.