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A thank you would of been nice.

116 replies

Scoobydobbywho · 01/06/2019 20:38

So my dh and 2 ds were going out Wednesday evening, when our oldest ds spotted a dog running down our road on to a bit of green we have nearby. I tried to catch it as we couldn't see anyone with it but it was a bit skittish and ran back down the road towards a busier road. Eventually managed to catch it and get in in the car. No name tag so took it to the nearby vets who scanned it, luckily it was chipped. They called the owner who was going to come and pick up the dog. We left my name and number expecting a thank you. But nothing nada. Was I expecting too much. Sorry that was a bit long.

OP posts:
EnterUsernameHere · 01/06/2019 21:36

C0untDucku1a why would MuddyMoose be taking the 'pee'? Confused

outreach29 · 01/06/2019 21:36

Me too - really annoying @silvercatowner

joystir59 · 01/06/2019 21:37

Would have been nice, not would of been nice.

ChrisPrattsFace · 01/06/2019 21:38

I work in a Vets - unless you specifically asked for your information to be passed on it wouldn’t be.
Also, in my experience most owners are embarrassed by the whole saga and often do not want to contact those who found them - I am regularly a middle man thanking in behalf.
It was a kind deed, and should expect any ‘reward’

WorraLiberty · 01/06/2019 21:38

Oh my goodness, I didn't realise that the majority of responses would of/ would've been about my grammar.

It's shit isn't it OP?

I thought MNHQ were supposed to be cracking down on this sort of thing.

With regards to a thank you, I'm not sure I would've expected one in that situation tbh.

If I'd handed the dog straight to the owners, then I would.

mabelsgarden · 01/06/2019 21:40

Me and DH and our kids were at a large theme park a few years ago, and we found a little boy who was 4 or 5-ish, wailing and hollaring 'mam! where are ya mam?' He has lost his mother obvs.

We took him and said we will help him find his mother. We bought him an ice cream, and a little toy to calm him down, and also a can of pop. After 10 minutes or so, we came across an employee and told her we had a lost child. She radioed to a pal of hers who said the mother had just come to the front gate to say her son was missing.

The woman we were with said, 'send the mother to this wild rat roller coaster, coz we have her kiddie here. A family has found him and has been looking after him. Even though she was only five minutes walk away, it was TWENTY minutes later when the mother came (with 2 other young kids aged around 2 and 8.) She marched up to the boy and said 'for fuck's sake Connor. Where the fuck you bin?' She grabbed him by the scruff of the neck, and dragged him away wailing.

She didn't thank us, OR the woman with us (from the theme park,) and she didn't acknowledge us in any way. Me and DH and the kids and the theme park woman just stood there gobsmacked. ANYone could have taken that boy, and walked out of the theme park and she may never have seen him again. Stupid woman.

But yeah, some people! Rude, ungrateful and some are even plain thick! Hmm

Keep the next dog you see OP. or sell it LOL!

DadDadDad · 01/06/2019 21:40

Actually, @TheCanterburyWhales, in your post at 21:11: there should be a space after Itssetinstone; As does Georgie's is a sentence fragment; my English teachers (and some style guides) would say you should write three not 3; is smartarse a single unhyphenated word? Full stop is expected after OP. Grin

But I'm only pointing these out in jest. As thirsty has correctly point out, who cares on an internet forum?

floraloctopus · 01/06/2019 21:42

I've heard it in the context of 'I would of thought....'but not specifically by Midlands people.

mabelsgarden · 01/06/2019 21:43

Oh FFS, are people really piling on the OP for her grammar/spelling?

WTF is wrong with people?! Confused

HarryDaylight · 01/06/2019 21:45

Too many smart-arses on this thread. The end.

MNHQ
ClaraMumsnet · 01/06/2019 21:50

bangs gavel

Can we please stop this thread being a bunfight about grammar now and get back to responding to the OP?

We're sorry your thread's been derailed, OP.

WhatIfIHadnt · 01/06/2019 21:50

@newmobile Would of is a midland thing

It absolutely is not. It's a poorly educated thing, if anything.

WorraLiberty · 01/06/2019 21:50

Too many smart-arses on this thread. The end.

Tbh there's nothing 'smart' about ignoring an OP's thread topic and posting just to pick them up on their grammar.

So remove the 'smart' and that just leaves arses...

CruellaFeinberg · 01/06/2019 21:53

Would of is never a thing.

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there - it is many things now

DadDadDad · 01/06/2019 21:54

I jokingly criticised the English of someone who criticised the English of someone who criticised the English of the OP. So, I admit I got carried away and I apologise. I will leave this thread. I have never had any criticism to make of the OP.

lpchill · 01/06/2019 21:55

I'm with you OP. We recently found a dog that had been missing for a few days. Carrying it home a women come flying out of the house suing it was her neighbors dog so she took it knocked next door and they just took the dog off her. No thank you to her or me.

CruellaFeinberg · 01/06/2019 21:56

on a serious note though, language evolves, by people speaking it day to day - we don't say thee and thou any more, should we lament the loss of those words?

PeoniesarePink · 01/06/2019 21:56

My dogs are my world OP, and if one ever escaped, I'd be more than grateful. I appreciate the vet couldn't pass on your details, but the owners could have asked them to pass on their thanks to you.

Our neighbours have an esape artist of a dog, and I take it home to them at least once a week. And never once had a thanks for it. But I do it for the dog, not them.

It was really kind of you all to look after the dog Flowers

PortiaCastis · 01/06/2019 21:56

Bleddy hell
Nothing like derailing someone's thread
There's a section entitled pedant's corner use that and leave OPs thread alone

TheBigFatMermaid · 01/06/2019 21:57

All I got for finding a dog who was unchipped, that I took home for kindness, to save them a fine, then posted on FB was a load of abuse............ You're moaning about a lack of a thank you, you got off lightly!

mabelsgarden · 01/06/2019 21:57

Thanks Clara. Hopefully people take heed!

NoSauce · 01/06/2019 21:58

I imagine most dog owners would want to say thank you but there’s something odd about leaving your name and address with the vet so the owner could do that. No way would I do that.

ssd · 01/06/2019 21:59

Some people are dicks, of course they should have thanked you.

coconuttelegraph · 01/06/2019 21:59

I thought MNHQ were supposed to be cracking down on this sort of thing

What sort of thing? Poor SPAG? If only Smile

Absolutepowercorrupts · 01/06/2019 21:59

MuddyMoose
"going against the grain* means doing or saying something you personally disagree with. It doesn't mean you disagree with every other poster.