If I've found a stray puppy, who do I call???

[NotADragonOfSoup]

RSPCA? Local council dog warden?

ghostbusters

rspca or local vets? might have good ideas.

If you are anywhere near London or Windsor, call battersea dogs and cats home. They are really good at reuniting dogs with owners. I would also take it to your nearest vets if you can't keep it, they will definitely know what to do with it.

Poor little thing - is it ok?

just picked it up from near ds1s tutor's house. apparantly it's one of many in recent months.

Local council - they are legally responsible for holding lost pets for 7 days. If the owner does not track the dog down by then, the council should take it to the nearest rescue centre.

Many people try their police station first if they've lost a dog, but the police no longer have a duty to hold the dog, so would pass it to the council anyway.

You could always put a notice up too, with your phone number on, as the owner may not know to contact the council.

Whereabouts are you?

Poor little thing. Are you tempted to keep it? I would be

is it a staffie? Blunt nosed little thing? Lots of idiots breed these dogs thinking they can make a quick buck and then can't get rid of them. Mind you, it has just been Xmas...

very tempted! i thuink its a small terrier. typing one handed.

council dog warden won't destroy it will they?

Try asking the local vets. they may recognise whos it is from the description

where are you? google your local vets and call them - they'll be able to tell you what your council does with stray dogs

Possibly police, thats where they end up in our area, then moved to local rescue centre

have phoned the dog warden. I will check what they do if he remains unclaimed, I'd take him in if they destroy strays!

he's only young and a small breed so I have high hopes for his future.

I'm in croydon btw

Maybe this is fate.

also: doglost.co.uk

good luck!

I have 2 cats and a BabyDragon. I can't really have a dog too. And it's a small yappy kind of dog.

DS2 is keen to keep it though!

It's like having a baby again. He wants to be held all the time, bless him.

Do you have a local rag? Our area newspaper always has stories of lost/founds dogs, they particularly like heart warming ones of puppies and kittens.

Keep it, we have a staff (great dogs), if i lived closer i would have it .

i have just rehomed a new kitten, form a rescue place. They would take it in, and go about the appropriate ways of finding out where he came from.

My kitten was a stray, who was handed into the vets, who then hander her in to the animal rescue place.

Awww he sounds very cute! I had to look after a 14 week old puppy for 2 days (long story) when I was pregnant - she ended up sleeping curled into my neck (DP in spare room ). Could've been the pg hormones, but I cried for days when I had to give her back

Sadly some councils (and even some rescue centres) do destroy them if they're not claimed within 7 days. If it was me I would be checking in 6 days time to see if anyone has claimed him!

The dog man says that they are rehomed and will not be destroyed.

DS2 (nearly 8) is in floods of tears because he doesn't want Merlin (the bloody thing has a name now!) to go when the dog man comes tomorrow morning. Fck fck c*ck. I should never have brought him home. I couldn't leave him because he followed me down the road, quivering.

I have 2 rehomed cats - one was found in a gutter as a tiny kitten and has lingering health issues as a result of the cat flu and eye infections she had. There doesn't seem to be a direct dog equivalent of the cats' protection league, at least not in our area.

A vet will be able to read the chip thing if he has one (how do they do that???) - my uncle got his staff back like that, she escaped, a family found him then took him to vet and said she was theirs but the vet read the chip and she had my uncle's details and at that moment (I kid you not) my uncle went into the vet with a leaflet about his lost dog and there she was sitting there!

Not a border terrier is it?
ones been stolen from Buntingford that I've just heard of bit of a long shot but you never know!

It's a Yorkshire Terrier BTW. Identical to this one

Dragon, how could you do that to us?

That is just the most unbearably cute pup.

God, and your ds has even named him!

Me, Call Me.

I will have him!!