stuart
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Got a phone call at work today, at about 12:15, from the mother dearest to say that the staffy I got 3 weeks ago has gone missing. I asked her if she had been out and bolted the gate properly etc, she said yes of course.
15 Minutes later, she got a phone call to say that the dog had been found, maybe around 1/2 miles away in the centre of town, stood in the middle of a shop called Peacocks. I was chuffed that she had been found to be honest but...
I sat down and thought about it, our back gate is 6ft if not more, the pup can't jump over the wall, the gate has 2 bolts on the inside and the gate opens towards you, my pup has no road sense, she will sit at a kerb, but as soon as you get on the road she wants to bolt across it. To get to where she was - She had to cross 7 main roads, if she did walk to town, she would have passed a bakery and also a butchers - now would a dog not follow its nose to food??
She is microchipped and has a little name badge with her name and a mobile number on it - 15 minutes and she managed to get into town??
The woman who had her in the shop said she was just found in the middle of the shop, laid down with no lead on.
I said to someone at work when I first got the call, I gotta go home, dogs gone missing, later afterwards when I said she had been found and brought home, the guy mentioned that not so long back there was a program on TV where people were stealing pets specifically to call the owners and ask for the reward - Think this could have happened to me? Or she was dumped becuase she was chipped and would show at the vets that this wasn't their dog??
I'm still adamant she was stolen
arseholes of this world
rant over
15 Minutes later, she got a phone call to say that the dog had been found, maybe around 1/2 miles away in the centre of town, stood in the middle of a shop called Peacocks. I was chuffed that she had been found to be honest but...
I sat down and thought about it, our back gate is 6ft if not more, the pup can't jump over the wall, the gate has 2 bolts on the inside and the gate opens towards you, my pup has no road sense, she will sit at a kerb, but as soon as you get on the road she wants to bolt across it. To get to where she was - She had to cross 7 main roads, if she did walk to town, she would have passed a bakery and also a butchers - now would a dog not follow its nose to food??
She is microchipped and has a little name badge with her name and a mobile number on it - 15 minutes and she managed to get into town??
The woman who had her in the shop said she was just found in the middle of the shop, laid down with no lead on.
I said to someone at work when I first got the call, I gotta go home, dogs gone missing, later afterwards when I said she had been found and brought home, the guy mentioned that not so long back there was a program on TV where people were stealing pets specifically to call the owners and ask for the reward - Think this could have happened to me? Or she was dumped becuase she was chipped and would show at the vets that this wasn't their dog??
I'm still adamant she was stolen
arseholes of this world rant over
