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Owners: Keep your dogs under control!

8:00am Saturday 20th March 2010 in


SIR – The irresponsible dog owners who let their terrier-type dog run off the lead about 4.15pm on Tuesday, March 16, on the public footpath leading up to Rodge Hill may or may not be interested to know that Sandy, our cherished pet chicken, which our children had hand-reared from hatching, died on Wednesday as a result of the injuries she received in the attack by the dog.

Incredibly, the owners of the dog said not one word as they collected their out-of-control dog from our garden as they walked past the scene of the crime.

Needless to say, our children are heartbroken, and tears flowed as we buried Sandy.

Please can we appeal to all dog owners to remember to keep their dogs under control at all times when out walking, and help prevent heartbreaking incidents like this from ever happening again.

RIP Sandy.

J and A R Barry
Martley, Worcestershire

Comments(2)

daffy says...
6:26pm Sun 21 Mar 10

incidents like this will continue to occur whilst dog owners responsible or otherwise let their dogs off leads when out in public. the comment all dog owners make, when they got a jumpy dog around a child is "it's ok the dog doesn't bite" so how does he eat. you take a dog out of it's normal enviroment and it will not always behave the same as it does at home, unless of course you let it run riot there too and are too selfish to care about others.

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Tulstar says...
3:14pm Mon 22 Mar 10

That's shocking. I take it they knew that their dog had just attacked the hen?
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My grandad had the right idea - he's a farmer, and one evening he had a phonecall to report a dog loose on his land worrying the sheep (and more importantly, the lambs)... He got on his quad, and located the dog - there was no owner with it and it had killed one lamb and injured another. So he shot it.
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He then called the number on the dog's collar, and told the owner to come and collect it.
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Perhaps such a radical approach wouldn't be necessary, but I'd have no hesitation in delivering a swift kick or two if a dog started attacking something which was mine. I've done it a few times before when I've been cycling.

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