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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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
. 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.
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.
It’s also the distress caused to them by being left. I hate seeing it.
I was responsible for a plane being stopped on the tarmac so I could be retrieved.
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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.
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
This is my nightmare. Poor little dog. Just how would you get over your pet being killed in this manner.
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 thoughThat 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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They make me worried about my dogs too, and they aren’t little. The 2 big boys are over 25kg, but they aren’t fighters.