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  1. Can anyone recomened a reliable gas fire engineer. Despite phoning umpteen gas engineers on the Gas Safe website (listing they deal with gas fires) I have had one response and he didn't deal with gas fires!! Also what is the usual life span of a gas fire? Thank you
  2. Hi there We went to see Penny last week and she is adorable we decided not to take her as we are long term fostering Horbury as he has been in kennels for 5 months now. Penny was lovely and when we saw her she was quite happy to play in their compound with two other labs and she wasn't phased by them at all. She is probably the type of dog that would be better with another dog for company. Anyway, good luck. Lab Welfare have always been brilliant with us.
  3. I know you say you want a puppy but have you tried Labrador Welfare? I know they are always looking for good homes for the dogs they are trying to re-home
  4. This is a massive issue. I wonder wheat the council will do (if anything). The original point of the thread is what do people do if they can't get a stray dog to the pound? We normally carry a spare lead but didn;t ion this particular day as we'd swapped it onto our boy as he'd had an operation. Luckily the little stary had a harness on so we could hang onto him, but agian back to my original point if I'd been on my own, our dogs weren't friendly etc etc etc. such a shame as he was a lovely little man and obviously trained at one point, would sit, lie down give paw, got on with our two (albeit he was rather keen on our bitch ). If and when I hear from the council I'll keep you posted.
  5. I wasn't aware that it wasn't in Millhouses, I presumed because of the name it was, I was simply seeking advice which could have given in a non aggressive manner.
  6. No I wasn't exepcting them to come out and take it from me and I never said that was the case did I? What I did expect is some civility (which doesn't cost anything) from someone who works/volunteers at an animal rescue centre when I was trying to ensure a stray dog wouldn't come to any harm, surely exactly the same reason rescue centres are there!!
  7. Response from council..... Thank you for your e mail. Firstly, can I say how sorry I was to see that by doing the responsible thing and taking both the best interests of the dog and the general public on board you were inconvenienced and given inaccurate information. I would also like to thank you for ensuring that neither the dog, nor anyone else, came to harm. I will be raising with this issue with the dog warden service, in particular what systems operate outside of normal office hours, when I would assume the majority of stray dogs are found and how these procedures are communicated to the 101 service and indeed the general public. I will share the reply with you and we can decide, in light of this, on any further action. Thank you, once again. David
  8. We found a dog wandering once in Whirlow and luckily it had a tag with tel number on and address, we managed to reunite with owners very swiftly. If the dog slips its collar then we're stuffed again, but I agree it's better than nothing.
  9. I've written to all three of the councillors who represent me and will wait with interest to see what they have to say.
  10. I think you have a valid point, microchips are not a complete solution, as you say someone may have the dog chipped and then move away etc, the problem still remains. However in the instance where a dog has escaped and it does have an owner that cares, reuniting them would be faster, in some cases eliminating the need for them going to the pound or ending up in a rescue. We found a cat (who had [practically adopted us) and we took it to Springfield at Gleadless and it was chipped, had been missing for about a month but was reunited it's owner. So much simpler when they're chipped.
  11. We would never have left the dog, we couldn't we're animal lovers and were concerned for this poor little lad however a lot of people may do just that, in fact they already had seeing as the dog was running loose. I guess this situation will never be resolved until owners are more responsible or the council make more funds available for wardens 24/7 and I guess that will never happen.
  12. I will be complaining to the council for all of the reasons I mentioned in a previous post, if the dog ahd been left to run about it could have caused an accident. The girls at the pound said the dog was underweight therefore suggesting the poor mite had been a stray for a while and had not 'just escaped' from its owner. In terms of your suggestion to go and volunteer at Millhouses, I can't I already do voluntary work. There was simply no need for the lady to be rude, end of. Rain, I give as much as I can to animal charities to try and help the situation which I know is dire. All of our animals are rescue animals we do what we can and waht we can afford. I feel that the point of my post has been missed. This dog is now safe in the pound, because we managed to sort the situation out. As stated in my first post, what would have happened if we couldn't have sorted the situation out? If we didn't have a car, if our dogs were not friendly to the staffie cross, if I'd been on my own without a phone. Luckily this situation had a satisfactory outcome (if you can call it that) the dog is safe and away from harm and will be fed and looked after whislt at the pound. The outcome could have been so much different and so much worse.
  13. My husband took out two dogs and went looking for the owner, we were also told when we first got to the park by another couple with a dog that there was a stray running around. If the owner had been there as you say Millhouses is small enough for them to have hopefully made themselves known and perhaps other people could have pointed us in their direction or vice versa. I wasn't suggesting the sanctuary drop everything and take this dog, I was hoping for advice as to whether they could hols the dog until the wardens came out. If we had released the dog because nobody was willing to help and aslo becasue the wardens could not come out then think about this. The dog causes a road traffice accident.....so what resources are required, ambulance, paramedic, fire engine, police, etc etc etc. People may have been injured, the dog may well have been killed. The cost of all of the above surely warrants having someone available.
  14. I was not berating them, I was simply asking for advice and help to prevent a dog potentially causing an accident, there was no need for the retort or attitude I received down the telephone. I'm well aware of the contraints animal charities work under, however the response was unhelpful and did nothing to help the situation and most importantly the dog we were trying to help.
  15. Ah, so there are no strays at the weekend and outside of these hours then We had the capacity to get the dog to the pound, not everybody has that capacity, they may not have a car, they may have a dog of their own which would not get on with the stray. This seems ridiculous.
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