Some people!

I went camping this weekend and this morning when we were packing up our tent a dog wondered into our part of the campsite. There were a group of about 20 of us, and lots of children playing in the middle of the ring of tents.

As this was a dog we didn't know i slipped a lead on it and took it to the next lot of tents to see if it belonged to anyone.

The people at the next lot of tents said " it's not our dog but some children found it on the beach yesterday and asked us if it was ours. We said it wasn't but we would take it, so we brought it here. We gave it some water and tried to feed it - we gave it a pepper (they seemed to find this funny) but it didn't want it"

They didn't really seem to want it anymore and had made no effort to contact the dog warden or the police saying that they didn't have a phone. But they had taken it off someone else ten miles away, driven it to a campsite (which is someone else private property and where children are playing!) and let it roam!

I told them they would need to contact the dog warden but they said i seemed to know what i was doing so could i do it!

So after half an hour of various phone calls trying to get someone to take responsibility for a stray dog (which is easier said than done) We finally took it to a police station where we were told they had a spare kennel.

He was a very well looked after entire youngish chocolate lab. Anyway despite the idiots at the campsite, the story does have a happy ended as this afternoon we had a call from the dogs owners thanking us saying that they had just picked him up from the police station. They had been night fishing with the dog and it had shot off after a deer. Apparantly it did have a collar on but must have lost it in it's wanderings..

Glad the story ends happily for the poor doggie.
As you say "Some People"

Some people are the limit.

Still it had a happy ending thanks to you. So glad to hear the dog nd its owners were re-united.

It was a happy ending.

What i don't understand is why take responsibility for the dog in the first place if they were only going to let it go again later!

Some people haven't got a clue, have they?!
Thank goodness for this lad you were there to help out, goodness only knows where he'd have ended up otherwise!

Well done for doin the right thing, some people haven't the brains of a false face.

well done to you for stepping up.
mmm bit puzzled about the police station bit tho as i was told by my local dog warden that the police staition as of the 1st of april (approx) the police no longer take any dog it has to the local dog warden. Or is this just my part of the uk?

Dear me, I would be furious if that was my dog, some people are so flippant ! Glad it ended well.

Well done for taking responsibility and I'm so glad that he's back with his owner.

Unfortunately this seems to happen quite a lot. Our local rescue centre tell me they often get dogs in from miles away because lorry drivers and others see a stray dog and think 'it'll keep me company' - then they often just dump it at the other end of their journey (though some do hand them in).

Thanks to you, a happy ending! Well done