Greyhound left to die in Police kennel

[Carol Anne]

I felt so physically sick when I heard this story on the radio today that I had to sit down. (stray greyhound locked in a police kennel and left to die of thirst) I dont care what excuse they will come up with in their enquiry at Dalkeith Police station , but the resonsibility, surely, for this horrendous act of cruelty and gross neglect of care rests firmly and squarely with the person who locked that poor dog up and never took the necessary steps to make sure it was being looked after. Nothing less than prison can be enough for this.

[prattler]

I dont agree with prison, thats never going to happen anyway.Most humans dont get justice with their perpetrators getting prison terms, and while i love animals, I am not the sort to put their feelings above my other mortals.The fact is, I hope at least that person has to live with their conscience for as long as is humanly possible.Mind you, i doubt if they have a conscience when it comes to animals if they could forget to pass on information about that poor dog.

[Ethel]

The owner is ultimately responsible - why was the dog allowed to stray?

And if the dog had been sent to the pound it would have been destroyed (although humanely) if it hadn't been claimed within a relatively short period of time.

I can't get too upset about this, in comparison to human suffering that is allowed to go on all over the world.

[sir.prize]

I side with Ethel on the matter of human suffering being paramount, but that poor greyhound was taken in by, allegedly, a police officer. It was no doubt booked in with paperwork/computer records. It has now been claimed that the person who took the dog to the police pound was not a regular worker at that station. However, the official excuse appears to be "The dog was forgotten"! If a member of the public locked a dog into a confined space, without caring, would they be allowed to say: "I forgot"? I think not. Rules for one and rules for others comes to mind . . . .

[IggyB]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_ and_east/6289925.stm

link to the story - it appears that the paperwork was either miss-filed or not filed at all... human error unfortunately does occur, and in these situations when a group of people are taking responsibility for various section of the logging in of animals e.g. on puts it in and leaves, one logs it and leaves it, then other feed it etc you can see how if one link of the chain fails then no one will ever notice until it is too late.
sad indeed but not a case for a prison term just a dressing down and maybe a demotion at the worst

[naz_nomad]

Let's hope they string the ba$tard up

[jenstar]

I'd lock up all the cretins who get sentimental over  animals. It would mean building a hell of a lot of prisons, but it would be worth it.

[johnlambert]

Why didnt the dog bark or howl at the moon?

[TheGopher]

Like IggyB, I feel that a dressing down and demotion would be the best option.

Jenstar, because I feel compassion for animals doesn't mean I don't have compassion for humans. Compassion can be spread around. Those that are cruel to animals more often than not will be cruel to humans as well. Sentimentality doesn't come into this at all. The animal died a nasty death.

And if people are sentimental about animals (as indeed I can be) then they do not deserve to be called cretins. Your posting is not relevant to this thread.

[Carol Anne]

As sighthounds they they generally noisy and excitable when instinct kicks in during the chase. Otherwise they are gentle placid dogs who rarely bark at all, and this one would have died in silent agony.
I still feel ultimately that the person responsible for loclkng the dog up should have been mindful of the potential for mishaps in communication, and should have satisfied himself as to the dogs welfare.

[Carol Anne]

They are......... not they they.. sorry

[Grunty]

It is surprising that the dog was taken to a police station at all. It was probably a short-term thing until the council's dog person could collect it. Dare I say that we all forget things, although it does not always lead to the death of a dog. A few years ago I researched an article that I was writing and I found that the annual workload of a police officer in 1939 was described as exceptionally heavy. An average modern officer does that amount of work in four days. I would imagine that the officer was called to a succession of incidents, maybe a serious road accident, a fight at a night club, a burglary at someone's home etc. etc. This sort of thing can go on all night without stopping. There is no excuse for carelessness, but there can be reasons for it. If we all made the effort not to break traffic laws it would make a big difference.

[louisa06]

Carol Anne - I wouldn't be surprised look at the treatment human's get when locked up in the cells.

Poor Thing !!

[Aschenbach]

At least this shows there's some transparancy as this could have been covered up and no one would have known.

[jenstar]

Well, from the editing of my earlier reply, I see you can call people cretins, but oooooh no, you mustn't call animals dumb. See, I'm right about people getting ridiculously sentimental over animals - even AB Ed's at it.