Would it be possible to trace this dog

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long story...
When i was 10 years old we rehomed a puppy called Ben. Ben was fine up until his 3rd birthday when he started developing sores on his body and his fur fell out in clumps , he was in agonising pain alot of the time and my mother was beside herself trying to get vets and RSPCA to help him he had an immune disorder and several allergies to almost all dog foods. the vets just used to prescribe him tea tree oil sprays and dermo scrub shampoos but never did blood tests despite my mother's objecting to this saying she knew he had some sort of allergy or immune problem we went on like this for 2yrs with our pleas for help falling on deaf ears all the while poor Ben was slowly getting worse no amount of baths or cuddles (he loved cuddles) could get him back to his bouncy self and he looked so bad you'd have thought he was being badly mistreated when in fact he couldn't have been more loved if we tried. So the RSPCA got involved as they had done before when we were trying to get him referred to specialists and said there was nothing more we could do for Ben and they had to take him there and then to be PTS at this point he really was in agony and miserable so we let them take him admitting defeat. ive thought about him for the past 6 yrs constantly but last night i Googled his breed Labrador X Dalmatian and his adoption advert popped up for aug 2011 3 months after he was taken to be PTS it sent shivers down my spine seeing him once more after all these years and realising for some reason only known to the RSPCA they took our dog and finally got him the help he needed while lying to us and saying he was dead so know i am sat here wondering what Ben is like today i have so many questions my 15yr old self didn't get answered when he was taken and I'd love to know he is ok and got his happy ending thanks for reading this far i will now post a link to the ad i found in hope someone has information on his whereabouts please inbox me if you know anything about him thank you

i was also 15 at the time he was taken and sharp as a tack i could read my mother like a book and knew when she and other adults were lying or trying to hide things from me everything i have said is the gods honest truth

I can believe you, Username, as the RSPCA tried a similar tqctic with my friend's dog a week before Christmas.
A neighbour reported her for having a "neglected, scabby looking dog", when in fact the dog has a skin condition that is mamageable with frequent, expensive shampoos and medication.
Dog was in the middle of a flare up and needed his medication adjusting.
RSPCA didn't believe her as she couldn't produce vet bills, just bank statements, and the medication was running low. They gave her one week to voluntarily rehome the dog or they would seize him.
She pointed out that not only was the dog loved and cared for but, as it was a week before Christmas and he looked scabby, he was unlikely to be rehomed, just kennelled.
She got the vet to intervene and the RSPCA backed off. No apology, nothing.
If she hadn't been able to be so proactive then her lovely dog would have been another sad face on a rescue poster and the RSPCA would have another rescue statistic to add to their portfolio of good works .

Harriet same as us he was also using shampoo we showed them this and we had vets letters etc and they refused to help him they were more interested in him being a statistic too after 6yrs of grieving for that poor sweet boy im overjoyed to find out he is alive still and i won't rest until i know he got his happy ending and a happy family

Hope you find him.
I believe you when it comes to the rspca.

Thanks loki im just hoping he has a lovely family he really was an adorable loving dog even when his skin was covered in sores i still couldn't resist giving him cuddles and kisses he adored everything and everyone

Years ago our cat vanished. We assumed she'd been run over (lived in a busy city) and rang round every rescue and the RSPCA in particular, every single day. Every day I asked if a little black and white cat from x area had been brought in. Every day they categorically said no - no cats brought in, none in our hospital from that area, or that fit that description. After 10 days my son (then about 5) read a postcard in a window in the next street that asked anyone who had lost a little black and white cat to knock on their door. Turned out they had been in the car behind some boy racers who knocked her over and drove away. They rushed her to the RSPCA. They fell in love with her and said if no-one claimed her, they'd re-home her.

So all the time the RSPCA lied to us on the phone (their hospital area was just behind the reception - would be no way anyone answering the phone couldn't know there was a small black and white cat admitted from x area on x day). They'd 'sold' her already so pretended she wasn't there.

I rang them, told them this and shamefacedly they admitted they did indeed have her.

The little cat is now 20 and still going strong. (She wasn't microchipped - less common in those days, but she had an ID tag that had fallen off her collar).

OP, I hope you track him down and pass on the info.

The irony with our cat was, the people who had offered to buy her from the RSPCA lived about 100 yards as the crow flies, from us. The day they paid their £50 and brought her home - she'd have walked right back home to us anyway (minus one leg). So they'd have lost their £50 and the cat and they were lovely people.

That's awful joffery glad you got her back they could have easily claimed she was there's and kept her. i really think the RSPCA need investing asap i and many others despise them because of lies and underhand money making like that i trust Dog's Trust more and would rather donate to them any day

We used to live behind a large branch of the RSPCA. Once my husband found an injured wild bird, and took it into the hospital. As he handed over to a man there, he asked what would happen to it. The man simply looked at him and slowly drew his finger across his throat! Hardly 'Animal Hospital'! So I think that was why I distrusted them so much, I kept ringing back every day even though they claimed my cat hadn't been brought in. (They were very insistent I couldn't come in to look at the strays in their hospital just in case, either, now I come to think of it....)

Dogs Trust are ace. We got our rescue pup from them a few months ago. Just brilliant.