Thank God for the chip. Before the law changed Tia was always reluctant to re-register the dogs under the adopters details. Sadly in some cases, this viewpoint cost us some supporters and indeed friends. They had a point but our only wish was for the protection of the dogs. I can recall several situations where the registration proved to be the trump card in a Police incident and the animal was fast tracked to safety.
The law changed and we mellowed a bit (sort of) and now if requested, we amend details once we are sure that the dog isn’t going to come back into kennels. We still take great pains to keep our contacts on the contact form somewhere. Usually, that is enough for a stray kennel to roll their eyes, pick up the phone and wait for the cavalry to arrive.
No-one puts a Tia dog in a corner.
On Monday 10th January I got a call from Scotland. A dog warden had picked up one of our dogs straying on a busy main road. Not knowing any better, we looked up her adopters details and passed them on to the warden, just thinking that the dog had got out. Several conversations later and the adopter told the dog warden that she had sold the dog the previous weekend. And if things weren’t bad enough she had been knocked by a car and had been out all night. In Scotland! The dog was over an hour away from home. Apparently she was regularly on the run.
The five hour journey passed in a blur, I cannot remember being so angry.
The dog is a shadow of the dog we said goodbye to last May. I managed to get some overnight accommodation and kept her by the side of me, after a visit to an emergency vet.
Poor lass is still exhausted and her nerves shattered. There will be no rehoming for a while for her.
To be honest I didn’t like the woman who adopted our Sigyn, but her sister is a good friend of mine and she has 3 Tia dogs.
Lorraine ( Lainey ) Evans, from Bankfoot, Perth…The trash gets picked up tomorrow….be ready