What happens to the stray dogs

[Jennypenny]

I have two dogs that I got from a rescue home and was told they were from a local pound one was a stray and the other was taken in by her old owners.

I was lead to beleive that if a stray dog is not claimed after 7 days they are put down. I have been since told thats no true they go to rescue homes?

Does anyone really know what happens to them, how the system works? What happens to the dog if they are not claim & can the public go and have a dog that is not claimed? Just interested that's all.

 

[ucmeicu]

You can go to some kennels and make known your interest should the dog become available and then rehome it but some kennels offer the dogs to rescue centres and not to members of the public, others are pts it all depends on the policy of that particular place. Have a look here, dogs are on death row but alot are sponsered for kennels or go off all over the place for rehoming but cannot be rehomed straight to the public
http://www.rochdale-dog-rescue.com/urgentdogs.html.

 

[GinaB]

It depends on who it is picks them up.

In Carryduff pound, there is a 7 day time period and if their owner doesn't collect them then they are put up for rehoming. Not sure how long they are allowed to wait for a home. They do euthanise though if homes aren't found. Each kennel also states how long they have until that day

Sometimes the dogs are moved to the likes of Dogs Trust and Assisi who never euthanise healthy dogs. Unsure about stance on dangerous dogs on Dogs Trust but Assisi have dogs with questionable temperaments (Apparently)

I think there is also a scheme that moves abandoned dogs over to the mainland.

 

[Puppy]

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I think there is also a scheme that moves abandoned dogs over to the mainland.

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Hen, be warned, Gina could turn up on your doorstep any day!!

 

[kirstyhen]

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I think there is also a scheme that moves abandoned dogs over to the mainland.

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Hen, be warned, Gina could turn up on your doorstep any day!!

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[GinaB]

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I think there is also a scheme that moves abandoned dogs over to the mainland.

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Hen, be warned, Gina could turn up on your doorstep any day!!

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I have not been abandoned

 

[MurphysMinder]

Sadly I think quite often stray dogs are pts if not claimed. My daughter is a vet student and the dogs they use for dissection work come from the local dog pound

 

[FestiveSpirit]

Both my greyhounds are Irish, and were rescued out of pounds before they were PTS - Flick was imported a year ago as a starvation case (she was dumped when she didnt grow big enough to race) and she has changed quite a lot since then

As others have said, I think there are a lot of rescue charities who will go around dog pounds and take the dogs before the local authority can have them PTS, but everyone has finite resources so I would think that they cannot all be saved

 

[CorvusCorax]

Dogs Trust send a lot to mainland UK.
Council pounds will also send to local rescue or they will come looking for rehomable dogs.

http://www.rainbowrehoming.com/adopt/dogs_line1.htm is a page I check out quite a lot, the stories of Kim, Alfie and Tawnee are very upsetting

And they are chock full of Akitas because people buy them as a status symbol and then can't handle them when they get big.

 

[dingle12]

Alot of Staffis get put to sleep around our area

all rescue kennels are full of them. Other dogs get sent to different rescue kennels around yorkshire to try and re home them but some do get PTS. If i go to a kennels looking for a dog i always ask to be taken to the dogs that are near the end of there time.

When i worked at a vets we used to get a van load every Monday to be PTS

i hated it.

 

[Puppy]

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Alot of Staffis get put to sleep around our area

all rescue kennels are full of them.

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I believe from something that I read recently, that well over 50% of dogs in rescue kennels are staffies or part breds

Personally I'd never have one, and I'm not a fan of the breed, but that is a very sad statistic and does make you think breeding of them needs to be far more fiercely monitored/prevented.

 

[MurphysMinder]

Majority of the dogs pts and used by the vet uni are staffy/staffy crosses.

 

[competitiondiva]

It depends on the kennels really, in nottingham I believe the rspca shelter has the contract (or used to!) with the local council for taking the strays, those dogs then if not claimed and pass the behavioural tests will go on to be rehomed as all dogs are through the rspca. Other councils will have contracts with other private kennels, these then may go out of their way to rehome some breeds and not others, also depends if any rescue charities approach them and offer to take the dogs once not claimed. A local rescue does this but unfortunately they don't have very strict rehoming guidelines and alot of the dogs go out to unsuitable homes and end up back in the system!!!