Lost and Found - part 2
You may have noticed 'Lady' on the GAL homeless dog list last week, here's her story.
GAL received a call on the last Sunday in June from a member of the public who had found a dog tied up in a basement car park, she took the dog home then called GAL for advice. As usual with these situations we instructed the person to hand the dog in to her local police station so it would go 'in the system'.
The member of public then raised a number of points; What if the owner had deliberately tied the dog up and left it then was able to reclaim it, would the same thing happen to it again? What if the dog wasn't claimed from the welfare home it would end up in, would it be put to sleep?
Very valid points, this is a tough one and there are no easy answers however we at GAL being a respectable charity need to follow the letter of the law so our advice is always the same, put the dog into the system.
In this case the member of public decided to go against GAL's wishes, she decided to keep the dog herself and asked GAL to re-home it. In this circumstance there's nothing GAL can do, we did make sure the dog wasn't chipped, other than that we just hope that if the owner is truly trying to find his or her dog they will come to GAL looking. The dog was christened Lady and put on the GAL books.
Lady was on the GAL books for just over a week when we received a call from someone who had lost their dog on the same day but in a different area of Glasgow, his description of his dog matched Lady's quite closely so we asked him to send us a picture.
A few days later we received the picture, the dog we were calling Lady was his dog, she was called Ripley and had slipped her lead whilst being walked by a friend of her owners. Happy that the owner was genuine Ripley was reunited with him the next day. Ripley's owner had been checking the local rescue centers each day since his dog had disappeared, in this case if Ripley has been put into the system she would have been reunited with him much quicker.
Well, as you'll see from this and part 1 of tonight's 'Lost and Found' stories, 2 lost dogs and 2 happy endings under quite different circumstances, the moral remains the same, make sure your dog is chipped or is wearing and ID tag at all times!!
GAL received a call on the last Sunday in June from a member of the public who had found a dog tied up in a basement car park, she took the dog home then called GAL for advice. As usual with these situations we instructed the person to hand the dog in to her local police station so it would go 'in the system'.
The member of public then raised a number of points; What if the owner had deliberately tied the dog up and left it then was able to reclaim it, would the same thing happen to it again? What if the dog wasn't claimed from the welfare home it would end up in, would it be put to sleep?
Very valid points, this is a tough one and there are no easy answers however we at GAL being a respectable charity need to follow the letter of the law so our advice is always the same, put the dog into the system.
In this case the member of public decided to go against GAL's wishes, she decided to keep the dog herself and asked GAL to re-home it. In this circumstance there's nothing GAL can do, we did make sure the dog wasn't chipped, other than that we just hope that if the owner is truly trying to find his or her dog they will come to GAL looking. The dog was christened Lady and put on the GAL books.
Lady was on the GAL books for just over a week when we received a call from someone who had lost their dog on the same day but in a different area of Glasgow, his description of his dog matched Lady's quite closely so we asked him to send us a picture.
A few days later we received the picture, the dog we were calling Lady was his dog, she was called Ripley and had slipped her lead whilst being walked by a friend of her owners. Happy that the owner was genuine Ripley was reunited with him the next day. Ripley's owner had been checking the local rescue centers each day since his dog had disappeared, in this case if Ripley has been put into the system she would have been reunited with him much quicker.
Well, as you'll see from this and part 1 of tonight's 'Lost and Found' stories, 2 lost dogs and 2 happy endings under quite different circumstances, the moral remains the same, make sure your dog is chipped or is wearing and ID tag at all times!!
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