Irresponsible Owners

I used to tie my dog's lead around a brick on a sandbag at the side of the library when I was a kid, and tie her to a lamp post outside the shop. I think the problem was that the old, overweight GSD actually put other patrons off going inside....
 
A dog was tired up outside my local shop a few weeks ago, on a very busy road and six hours later was still there!
Was a cocker spaniel so all those who worry a dog would disappear in minutes, no one took him and he just sat quietly until finally a shopper who had been in the shop in the morning walked past again and wondered why he was still there.
Eventually someone called the police, who contacted a dog warden who chipped the dog, discovered he lived 100 metres away and took him home.
The owner hadn’t even realised he had forgotten to take his dog home after their daily stroll along to get a newspaper!
 
bonny said:
A dog was tired up outside my local shop a few weeks ago, on a very busy road and six hours later was still there!
Was a cocker spaniel so all those who worry a dog would disappear in minutes, no one took him and he just sat quietly until finally a shopper who had been in the shop in the morning walked past again and wondered why he was still there.
Eventually someone called the police, who contacted a dog warden who chipped the dog, discovered he lived 100 metres away and took him home.
The owner hadn’t even realised he had forgotten to take his dog home after their daily stroll along to get a newspaper!
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Poor dog, some owners really don't deserve the privilege of owning animals. Unless you have dementia/Alzheimer's/a TBI how can you a) walk past your dog on your way out of a shop and go home without them and b) spend several hours at home without them without noticing? What a good dog to just sit there, thank goodness someone noticed and did something about it. I hope the owner learns from this and takes more care with the dog (and doesn't also forget to feed it, walk it, get it vaccinated etc).
 
DabDab said:
Laughter emoji for the last sentence CC.

I was left in an art gallery once... Took th over an hour to come back for me (I just sat in the corner of one room on a chair). Have you ever heard something so tragically middle-class?
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Sounds like a fine example of performance art to me; I am sure some sort deeper meaning could be attributed to Child Sitting on a Chair
 
Tiddlypom said:
He did!
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CorvusCorax said:
My mother left me outside the shop in a pram. When I was a baby, obviously.
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Granny AND Mum left my sister outside a shop in her pram early 60s. They each thought the other had her, I think it was on purpose 😄 . They didn't notice for half an hour or so that she was missing. By the time mum had driven back up to the village she would have been there roughly an hour. But then again I hid her, aged 2 or so, under a packing case in the garden and she wasn't missed for ages.
 
SilverLinings said:
Poor dog, some owners really don't deserve the privilege of owning animals. Unless you have dementia/Alzheimer's/a TBI how can you a) walk past your dog on your way out of a shop and go home without them and b) spend several hours at home without them without noticing? What a good dog to just sit there, thank goodness someone noticed and did something about it. I hope the owner learns from this and takes more care with the dog (and doesn't also forget to feed it, walk it, get it vaccinated etc).
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My mum once took the house guard dog to the shops and forgot to give it the command word to come back with her. She had returned back to the house by the time she realised he wasn't with her and had to go back, give the word then the dog came with her. It was the headmistress of Rodean who had keeshonds, obviously where my dad got the love of them from. The entire family seemed to live/work at her house back in the day. Dad didn't, he was mates with one of the sons.
 
I saw a tiny dachshund tied up outside a small local grocers today. The shop doorway had railings in front with a slope either side of the door for access (so when you come out of the door the railings are about 4' in front of you and extend down to the right and left).

The dog was tied up right in the doorway so that a wheelchair or push chair couldn't have got in/out, and the dog was a trip hazard for pedestrians (you couldn't see him until you were almost on top of him). The dog looked stressed and anxious, and desperately tried to move away when we walked past, but he/she couldn't move far. It was an unpleasant situation for the poor dog (and risked it being injured), and totally selfish blocking access for other shop users.

As an aside, when we came out and were waiting to pull into traffic I watched the dog led away and the poor thing had such a long back and short legs that its walking looked painful and clearly required a lot of effort. It was the most extreme dachshund I've seen.
 
Many years ago, in rural Australia, I used to walk or cycle to do the shopping. No alternative. I did take the dogs but I never tied them up, just sat them up to wait so at least they could move away if they wanted.
I would never do it now, and hate to see it.
 
I wouldn't do it these days but used to. As a kid we used to go to the library and the dog was tied up to the stairs just inside. Mum used to take him shopping and he went into most shops except the fish shop when he was tied up outside. It was the norm back then 50/60's. My sister left her collie x outside the local shop once, just on stay and someone picked up her lead and tried to walk off with her. Dog towed him into the shop to find my sister. Life is so different now, we didn't lock our doors back then either.
 
DabDab said:
Laughter emoji for the last sentence CC.

I was left in an art gallery once... Took th over an hour to come back for me (I just sat in the corner of one room on a chair). Have you ever heard something so tragically middle-class?
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I was responsible for a plane being stopped on the tarmac so I could be retrieved.

My father was an aircraft engineer and his wife was cabin crew. During school holidays, I'd frequently be left to run wild around the airport. I was also given a stack of boarding passes to play with - the t-shaped, cardboard ones that had passenger details written on, because I'm old. So one day, when I was around six, I decided to see if I could get onto a plane. Turned out, I could. And then I was too shy to own up to what I'd done.

Thankfully, a member of cabin crew realised I was on my own and queried that they weren't told about any unaccompanied minors.

I was never given quite so much freedom again.
 
As a signed up ‘I do not fuss or bother about other people’s dogs’ person, this morning I only so nearly dropped my guard and asked to cuddle a totally gorgeous whippet which was on a lead outside Morrison’s, complete with owner 😳🤣.

The most lovely shiny graphite grey coat, and that vulnerable whippet look 😍❤️😍❤️😍.

Crikey, it took some self control to walk on by and head towards Aldi 🤣.
 
Smitty said:
www.theboltonnews.co.uk

Owner devastated after dog killed in 'vicious attack' on street

Two brothers have been left devastated after a loveable dog was attacked and killed by four other dogs in a vicious attack.
www.theboltonnews.co.uk www.theboltonnews.co.uk

This is my nightmare. Poor little dog. Just how would you get over your pet being killed in this manner.
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We dealt with a tiny terrier last week which was brought into the vets DOA after being attacked by a large dog, running loose, with no owner in sight. Police involved but hold out little/no hope of tracing an owner. The owners of the tiny dog are naturally devastated, as is the dog walker who was actually present, and also badly bitten by the large dog. Large dog ran off after killing tiny dog.
 
That is truly awful. It's last second or so must have been awful. This is my biggest fear, coming across an aggressive large loose dog.
Landcruiser said:
We dealt with a tiny terrier last week which was brought into the vets DOA after being attacked by a large dog, running loose, with no owner in sight. Police involved but hold out little/no hope of tracing an owner. The owners of the tiny dog are naturally devastated, as is the dog walker who was actually present, and also badly bitten by the large dog. Large dog ran off after killing tiny dog.
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I have never forgotten my Collie x Lab being set upon in some woods by 2 GSDs many years ago. Their horrible, squirty little owner said they were just playing. My dog's scream said otherwise. He refused to call them off until I asked him politely instead of yelling "get the fu****g things off him. I had to grovel to the nasty little creep, and he refused to give me any details, eg car reg. I have never hit anyone but I just wish at that point in time I hadn't been a 5'3", 7.5 stone woman. 🙁
 
Smitty said:
That is truly awful. It's last second or so must have been awful. This is my biggest fear, coming across an aggressive large loose dog.


I have never forgotten my Collie x Lab being set upon in some woods by 2 GSDs many years ago. Their horrible, squirty little owner said they were just playing. My dog's scream said otherwise. He refused to call them off until I asked him politely instead of yelling "get the fu****g things off him. I had to grovel to the nasty little creep, and he refused to give me any details, eg car reg. I have never hit anyone but I just wish at that point in time I hadn't been a 5'3", 7.5 stone woman. 🙁
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What a nasty piece of work he sounds, and a cruel little bully. Sorry you had such an awful experience, I hope that your dog was physically unscathed. The owners of the dog that was 'just playing' in situations like that never seem to consider the psychological harm that their dog might be causing to the other dog in situations like that though :(.
 
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