what would you do about this neglected dog

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kerryk · 15/04/2008 14:08

he is a large golden lab but still under 2 years old. he never gets walked and gets shut in the outside garage (hard stone floor) near enough all the time.

ocasionally he will be let out to run around the (resonable size) garden but surely that is not enough for a dog of this age and size.

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PengTheMerciless · 15/04/2008 14:10

Poor dog.
What a miserable existance.
I'd call the RSPCA.

OlderNotWiser · 15/04/2008 14:10

Check it out with the RSPCA - they might well feel he needs a visit and then the decision is theirs as to what to do. Difficult tho if you dont want to annoy the owners I guess.

Beauregard · 15/04/2008 14:10

Call RSPCA

pania · 15/04/2008 14:11

God that's awful. I'd ring the RSPCA.

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kerryk · 15/04/2008 14:12

i know the owners had pets removed in the past, will the rspca have records of this even if they have moved home since. also is it anon if you call them, i stay close to these people and really dont want my windows or anything being put in.

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mindalina · 15/04/2008 14:14

I was going to ask if you were absolutely sure the dog is being neglected, but if they've had pets removed before then there's not much hope you're mistaken, is there?

Definitely phone RSPCA, sounds like these people shouldn't be allowed to keep animals at all. The people you are reporting should never find out it was you that reported them - we were (mistakenly) reported for neglect of our dog years ago and we weren't told who had reported us.

piratecat · 15/04/2008 14:15

I had a similar question for mnetter's a couple of weeks back.

In the end I did call the rspca, and i remained annonymous, and dialled 141 before the call to protect my home phone number being found.

I do think that if you posting abuot this then it is serious enough for the rspca to check it out.

I just felt that the animal I was concerned about had noone else to care for it's welfare.

anyway, things have changed re the animal I was worried about.

Lovesdogsandcats · 16/04/2008 10:44

Of course you should ring the rspca!! Not sure why you even need to ask this question first tbh. So what if you got it wrong, better to be wrong than leave an animal suffering. I mean its no skin off your nose to just ring them is it, yet to this dog it may mean the difference between a life of mental torture, and freedom to be rehomed to a loving family.

Also the fact that these 'people' are know to the rspca would be enough for me.

God I get so pissed off reading about things like this. Why have a fucking dog if you're not going to have it as part of the family.

Wankers.

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