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I've found a puppy in a plastic bag

262 replies

ayal · 13/04/2023 15:14

During a walk with my lab. It's looks like a poodle cross and go actually be in good condition.

I've called the vets and taking then in later. My next door neighbour has a microchip scanned and it's not chipped. No collar. Doesn't look to be in poor condition though.

Apart from the vets, what do I do?

I've fallen in love already!

OP posts:
LovelyIssues · 14/04/2023 17:58

Update & picture please!!!!

LovelyIssues · 14/04/2023 18:00

@Fraaahnces that's one of the best things I've ever read on here 💓

Atsocta · 14/04/2023 18:09

Ask or tell the vet you’d like to have it, seems you’ve saved pot little mites life so should be yours, how lovely, definitely don’t put it on social media, goodness knows where it would land up, it deserves a loving home now ..

WickedSerious · 14/04/2023 18:14

Hoppinggreen · 13/04/2023 15:28

Why does this never happen to me?

I know,I paid two fucking grand for mine.

user1499191107 · 14/04/2023 18:14

So glad you found him! I found five baby kittens in a plastic bag a few years ago. People are vile..

Cinnamon23 · 14/04/2023 18:15

Honestly… Congratulations on your new puppy!

ReallyTryingTo · 14/04/2023 18:17

Keep It ❤️ I would. Little friend for your lab. You found it for a reason.

Evan456 · 14/04/2023 18:31

If it was found in a plastic bag It’s been dumped

Feraldogmum · 14/04/2023 18:35

To the folk saying hand it to the police who will keep for a week because of the law,under no circumstances trust the police not to put this dog down,I’m not saying break the law,but certainly dont put your faith in them doing the moral thing.Maybe send to a rescue or keep whilst looking for owners ,but do not abandon to anyone that will euthanise after a week.Several years ago we took a stray to the police and told them specifically not to put down but to call us if owners didn’t come forward. After a week we assumed owners had come forward but rang anyway,to discover the police were at that moment taking to be killed, that dog escaped death by literally a minute and happily lived ten years with my MIL. In my experience the police are quite hard faced to strays,having to deal with dangerous dogs so often and this dog will simply be an irritation,work they don’t need and I’d be amazed if they even tried to locate an owner. The dog was dumped,ask the police if you can keep whilst they list and wait the 7days,I’m sure they’ll have no problem with you keeping,it’s work they don’t want, but please,please do not leave it 7 days if you leave with them.

Missc2016 · 14/04/2023 18:36

Hi have you tried typing on Facebook stolen puppies and similar searches and maybe the area found to see if it was part of a stolen litter.. you never know. I will never understand how and why people could do these things. I'm so glad you found them and helped. I'm not sure if there is a way if noone claims that you can be inline to adopt if an option for you. Good luck

YMZ · 14/04/2023 18:39

Keep it and call him Lucky!!

WotsitsMadeIn1927 · 14/04/2023 18:40

Hoppinggreen · 13/04/2023 15:28

Why does this never happen to me?

i thought this when I seen a tik tok video where a man spotted a kitten in a grass verge on the side of a road. He went over to investigate and about 15 more kittens come running out!!!

Notamumsym · 14/04/2023 18:45

The dog found you, keep😃

Hmm1234 · 14/04/2023 18:45

In a plastic bag would mean it had suffocated and unalived. Your post is cruel and misleading

Daleksatemyshed · 14/04/2023 18:45

If you can't find it's owner through the usual channels then this is fate Op, this DDog should be yours. Please let us know the dog is OK.

Riapia · 14/04/2023 19:00

I found 27 puppies in a bin bag once.
I decided to name them after a letter of the alphabet.
I put the last one back where I found it, when I ran out of letters.

FFS.

halfsiesonapotnoodle · 14/04/2023 19:06

Daleksatemyshed · 14/04/2023 18:45

If you can't find it's owner through the usual channels then this is fate Op, this DDog should be yours. Please let us know the dog is OK.

It's a fake post.

WiddlinDiddlin · 14/04/2023 19:09

Feraldogmum · 14/04/2023 18:35

To the folk saying hand it to the police who will keep for a week because of the law,under no circumstances trust the police not to put this dog down,I’m not saying break the law,but certainly dont put your faith in them doing the moral thing.Maybe send to a rescue or keep whilst looking for owners ,but do not abandon to anyone that will euthanise after a week.Several years ago we took a stray to the police and told them specifically not to put down but to call us if owners didn’t come forward. After a week we assumed owners had come forward but rang anyway,to discover the police were at that moment taking to be killed, that dog escaped death by literally a minute and happily lived ten years with my MIL. In my experience the police are quite hard faced to strays,having to deal with dangerous dogs so often and this dog will simply be an irritation,work they don’t need and I’d be amazed if they even tried to locate an owner. The dog was dumped,ask the police if you can keep whilst they list and wait the 7days,I’m sure they’ll have no problem with you keeping,it’s work they don’t want, but please,please do not leave it 7 days if you leave with them.

The police have nothing to do with it, they've had nothing to do with strays/found dogs for donkeys years now unless the dog is dangerously out of control of course.

Dogs have to do their 7 days in the council pound, unclaimed, to then legally be the property of initially the pound, and then whoever rehomes them from the pound.

Most pounds are also dog rescues, some are boarding kennels who then pass on to rescue - very few these days would PTS without attempting to rehome, one reason for that is, they'll get paid whichever way! They get paid from the LA for their stray contract, for the 7 day stay, and then when they rehome, they get paid an adoption fee there too.

The chances of a pound euthanising a PUPPY, are roughly the same as the chances of you finding rocking horse shit stuck to the hoof of your unicorn.

Your story is more than 'several years ago' isn't it - if the dog lived til 10 and died when exactly? Police did handle strays and yes a note saying a home was waiting may well be missed if the dogs 7 days were up on a different shift to the people you left the 'we'll take this one' note with. One reason why police do not deal with strays now, its a lot of work.

If you keep a found dog and do not notify the dog warden, then that dog is never legally yours should the real owner try to get them back. It is called 'theft by finding' and it does happen to pets and causes their real owners serious distress. Stories like yours that are outdated, dramatic and no longer relevant are WHY many people never see their missing dog again, because this myth persists.

WasIWasINot · 14/04/2023 19:26

I don’t understand why this thread is still here? I mean posters are openly troll hunting and no-one is doing anything about it.

GoodChat · 14/04/2023 19:31

WasIWasINot · 14/04/2023 19:26

I don’t understand why this thread is still here? I mean posters are openly troll hunting and no-one is doing anything about it.

Have you reported the troll hunters?

Jessicano9 · 14/04/2023 19:52

ayal · 13/04/2023 15:14

During a walk with my lab. It's looks like a poodle cross and go actually be in good condition.

I've called the vets and taking then in later. My next door neighbour has a microchip scanned and it's not chipped. No collar. Doesn't look to be in poor condition though.

Apart from the vets, what do I do?

I've fallen in love already!

I personally would keep it, I feel as tho you was meant to have found it.. I don't believe it was lost if you found in a plastic bag.. or find it a lovely home to a family that wouldn't be able to afford to buy a dog but really wants one. X

winnieanddaisy · 14/04/2023 19:56

Why would you put a message on dog lost or Facebook, the owner has put the pup in a plastic bag and threw it away . They obviously don’t want the dog so why would they claim it as missing ?

ChequeredPastel · 14/04/2023 20:11

Here for the pics…

Feraldogmum · 14/04/2023 20:14

Widdlin diddlin,yes it is years ago but guess what,many dogs get put down because rescue spaces are severely limited, especially since lockdown when every Tom ,Dick and Harry bought pups. Because of limited spaces,stressed out,sick or dogs that just growl when someone just walks by ,are routinely euthanised by a certain rescue, pups of course are less likely to be euthanised . I’ve been rescuing dogs for well over a decade ,volunteered with rescues and have friends and relatives in the veterinary profession ,if you think all abandoned dogs live a happy life in rescue til furever owners come by ,you are in cloud bloody cuckoo land .That’s not even mentioning the dogs that owners take to vets and get put down ,simply because they don’t want, the decent vets will find staff to take on and those who work in vets are often multiple adopters, but many will take the fee and destroy. The only country that has a no destroy policy,I believe is Sweden where you cannot buy locally if there are any dogs in rescue centres.

Feraldogmum · 14/04/2023 20:23

Incidentally of the 6 rescues I’ve had ,one of my current was to be put down by a rescue and the police,but a court case from a different rescue saved him. His elderly owner had collapsed,the paramedics came and as he was guarding his owners body ,he snipped at them ,didn’t bite,simply snarled,the powers that be wanted to destroy him. This little lad is a 10kg Jack Russell cross who has never bitten anyone in the 7years I’ve had him and came to me terrified of his own shadow, shut down after months in kennels, he is now a happy boy and yet the big ,brave coppers ( and a certain rescue) wanted to murder him for loyalty over his owner’s body. Don’t tell me that routine euthanasia of dogs doesn’t happen, grow up.