bpirie1000
21st October 2005, 10:59 PM
Yesterday my workmate and I were coming back from a meeting across town and turning left at a major roundabout onto dual carriageway we spotted (what we think was) an Airedale Terrier wandering about alone at the side of the road .
There was absolutely no sign of an owner anywhere and we decided to go round the block and stop and catch the dog and take it to the police station near by. By the time we got round the dog had proceeded to cross over into the road and there was now two lanes of traffic stopped and honking their horns at the poor thing.
Once we managed to get it off the road we saw that it had recently had an operation on it's leg and was in fact limping. NO COLLAR!! We lifted into the car and took it round to the cop shop. We were greeted by the on duty police woman who didn't seem that interested in looking after the dog until the dog warden came but still managed to produce a dog lead/chain from under the front desk
Anyway, I got a nice call from the owner last night to thank us. Apparently they had been out for a walk about a mile away and turned their heads for a matter of seconds and the dog was away!
So, really my question is....... would you stop for a lost dog......... or for that matter some person in distress? Or does nobody care anymore?
There was absolutely no sign of an owner anywhere and we decided to go round the block and stop and catch the dog and take it to the police station near by. By the time we got round the dog had proceeded to cross over into the road and there was now two lanes of traffic stopped and honking their horns at the poor thing.
Once we managed to get it off the road we saw that it had recently had an operation on it's leg and was in fact limping. NO COLLAR!! We lifted into the car and took it round to the cop shop. We were greeted by the on duty police woman who didn't seem that interested in looking after the dog until the dog warden came but still managed to produce a dog lead/chain from under the front desk
Anyway, I got a nice call from the owner last night to thank us. Apparently they had been out for a walk about a mile away and turned their heads for a matter of seconds and the dog was away!
So, really my question is....... would you stop for a lost dog......... or for that matter some person in distress? Or does nobody care anymore?