by Elise on January 1, 2009
The old saying with regards to giving dogs as presents is ‘A dog is for life, not just for Christmas’ – however this didn’t apply for one Labrador puppy as he was bought as a Christmas present, and abandoned on Christmas Day.
This is possibly the saddest dog story ever. The ten-week old Labrador puppy was bought by a couple as a gift for themselves, but decided they didn’t want him. They gave him in on Christmas Day to the West Calder Dogs Trust, in Scotland. The puppy, named Theo, was taken home by staff at the centre for the Christmas period.
Susan Tonner, the manager of the care centre, stated:
It is tragic that dogs are still being bought as Christmas gifts, then abandoned so quickly. People give such little thought to [read more]
by Elise on November 12, 2008
A taxi driver that said that he could not allow a blind man into his cab with his guide dog because it was against his religion has been fined £300.
The driver, Ali Raza Roshanmoniri of Bramcote, arrived to pick up partially sighted Christopher Odell from the school in Nottinghamshire where he works as a counsellor on 27th August.
Roshanmoniri said he could not take Odell as a passenger with his dog because it was against his religion and eventually the Beeston-based cab company, Cable Cars, sent a replacement driver for Odell.
However, the very next day [read more]
by Elise on September 6, 2008
When your dog starts to rattle, you know it’s time to take him to the vet. Chris Morrison did, and when he took his five-year-old Labrador to the vet he found his dog had swallowed thirteen golf balls.
The Labrador, named Oscar, would often go for walkies around the Pitreavie golf course, where he decided that the abandoned golf balls represented a healthy snack. Far from being the healthy, the thirteen golf balls remained ‘undigested’ in Oscar’s stomach, with one of them even [read more]
by Darren on August 3, 2008
In a story that should make you glad you live in the UK, police in the USA, in the small town of Berwyn Heights, shot dead a man’s Labrador dogs when they raided his home. It wasn’t just any man mind you, he was the Mayor of the town, and the police suspected his wife of dealing drugs.
They raided his house after the family took receipt of a package of marijuana, that has already been identified as such by a police sniffer dog before it had been delivered. The police burst into the Mayor’s home, and upon being confronted with the two black Labrador dogs (one of them a puppy) they shot them dead. [read more]
by Darren on August 2, 2008
The EU introduced new regulations on July 26th that are designed to cater for disabled passengers, and among the regulations is a plan to allow blind passengers to travel with their guide dogs from more UK based airports.
Currently guide dogs are only allowed on planes from the following airports: Glasgow, Heathrow, Doncaster, Sheffield and Manchester. After this new move it is hoped that a further 11 airports will, by law, have to cater for guide dogs.
Among the new airports that may have to cater for guide dogs are Cardiff, Belfast, Luton and London City. [read more]
