AIBU to think that something other than killing this dog could have been done?

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This is such a terrible story and not to be read by the fainthearted.

I understand that the dog could have caused an accident even at 3am when traffic is a lot quieter but surely they could have tranquilised it? Shit, even shooting it would have been more humane than accelerating towards it at such a high speed to ensure the dog would be killed outright.

Has anyone suggested that they should have lured it into a cage, with a fox?

Hobo!

That's who could help.

"Until tomorrow, I'll just keep moving on."

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Oh yes, if only he'd been in north Wales

2 dogs loose on motorway in Cardiff

Did anyone see this? They caused a 3 car accident and a woman is in hospital. Anyone still think the North Wales Police were wrong?

I found that whilst looking at the coverage of the horse drawn hearse!

Haven't rtft so we might have moved on a bit or it's already been mentioned.

The dog stayed still on the road long enough for the police to get in their cars, travel down a road, pick up speed and crash straight into it (the article said they hit it at enough speed so the dog wouldn't suffer) but the dog didn't stay still long enough to catch it by hand?

I know the area where this happened.
That road would have been almost empty at 3am, it's never busy even at peak time.

Also, it was just by a tunnel where it happened. Surely they could have got the hound into the tunnel, a car each end and caught it?

Re not being able to close the road - bollocks. They closed it a few weeks before as a recycling bin had blown onto it.

I'd usually side with the police but I just can't understand why they didn't close the road.
What would they have done had it been a scared child, or a horse that they couldn't run over?

a scared child wouldn't have mauled a police officer...

The hound wouldn't have done either, correctly handled. All areas have dog wardens used to dealing with frighten animals, with the equipment to do so safely.

Thomas, you might want to read all the previous posts:
a) a number of others (including me) also know the road, the Expressway is busy, HGVs, ferry terminal etc.
b) there are a couple (4?) of miles between the named roundabout and tunnel
c) how do you close a road so a dog doesn't escape... different from an out of control recycling bin
d) have you seen today's story about dogs on the road?
e) scared child = parent! Horse, possibly tasered it like they did the ram a few years ago.
f) they had tried for quite a while, got bitten, called in armed officers, decided there was little else to be done
g) they were there, they know more about what happened than we do
h) there is an official investigation into the matter

Did I miss anything?

Oh yes - RSPCA and dog wardens are not available overnight.

Over the previous 12 pages there really has been a lot of discussion.

OurBlanche

The only thing you missed is the while the call came into the control room at 3am, by the time the police, etc had tried everything else, it was at least a couple of hours later.

IE, as the traffic was building up again.....

m.dailyecho.co.uk/news/11310485.Motorcyclist_s_death__a_tragic_accident_/

This is the kind of thing that can happen when a horse gets on a busy A road.

The dog would be able to travel a mile in 5 minutes, so it would have had to be a rolling road block.

Delta when I've seen loose dogs on the road they've been running more or less straight along it. Not hitting them is more of a problem than hitting them.

Thomas this was a hunt hound. I know a huntsman whose arms are covered in old scars from bites. Whatever you think of people who hunt, he knows what he's doing. Any scared dog will bite but hounds are even more likely to - they're not pets.

Will people please RTFT!!

That road would have been almost empty at 3am, it's never busy even at peak time.

Nonsense. In the day, it's busy like any major dual carriageway/motorway. At night, obviously it is quieter but still busy with ferry traffic, mainly hgv's. I drive to Holyhead at least once a fortnight in the early hours to pick my DH up from the ferry (lucky me). There is always a steady line of hgv's heading to the ferry.

So much dumb...

The A55 is "never busy"?? Almost every time I drive along it it's nose-to-tail. I'd put it on the same scale as the M27, which I used to commute along every day.

That road would have been almost empty at 3am, it's never busy even at peak time.

That is the opposite of what I know of that stretch of road.

I've seen it extremely busy at all kinds of hours, usually coming up to a ferry departure.

And especially so on the eastbound carriageway after a ferry has arrived, as all the vehicles leave at the same time. The slow lane is bumper to bumper hgv's and the fast lane is full of cars overtaking them

I wish it was a quiet road! The foreign HGVs (which are not limited) tend to thunder down towards Holyhead. It's also very likely the matrix signs approaching the area would have been used to advise that the Westbound stretch of the Conwy tunnel was closed / Contraflow in place so that might have gone against them in closing the road too.

It's a decision I am very glad I didn't have to make and feel very sorry for those involved.