tonkatiel
10-27-2013, 12:43 PM
Had a terrible weekend...
On Friday we had the ranger show up to tell us our neighbours had reported that we have a pitbull (over here pitbulls are a restricted breed and have to be declared and kept the same as a dangerous dog would). Our dog is an American Staffordshire Terrier but because she doesn't have pedigree papers proving that, she has now been declared a dangerous dog. This means that she has to be kept in a secure pen at all times other than if we are outside with her - in that case she is allowed out of her pen, but has to be kept on a lead and wear a muzzle, even in our backyard! We have to put huge signs on all entrances to our property, stating there is a dangerous dog here. She needs to be re-microchipped, and her council registration will now cost 3x what it used to.
My dog is a huge baby! She sleeps in my bed! Shes the same age as my son, and we've had her since she was 12 weeks old, so they have grown up together. She loves the kids to pieces and they her. She has NEVER done a dangerous thing in her life! My partner is a dairy farmer and often takes her to work with him - she's scared of the calves, let alone the cows :(
But because some idiot who has never even met her, just drove past and decided that he didn't like the look of her, she now has to be locked up for the rest of her life and treated like a monster for nothing!!
As if that wasn't devastating enough though, our other dog (an Australian Bulldog) who was only 8 months old, was hit by a car and killed this morning :'(
Whoever hit her didn't bother coming to let us know, nor did any cars who must have driven past afterward. We let her outside when we woke up this morning, and it wasn't until we went outside 2 hours later that we found her :( the gates were shut so we have no idea how she got onto the road in the first place, but not only am I in shock that shes gone, I'm also in shock that whoever did it didn't have the decency to come and tell us! She was just left there in the middle of the road to be hit again :'(
Her name was Puppy Dog (or PD if you ask my partner) thanks to my 6 year old daughter naming her. She was a dopey little thing, you could whistle to her and she'd run in the opposite direction, she tripped over her own feet, and she sat around with her tongue hanging out of her mouth the majority of the time. But she was sweet and loving, so ugly she was adorable lol, and such a clown. She's definitely going to be missed and I'm sure I'll never meet another dog like her :(
RIP Puppy Dog xx
On Friday we had the ranger show up to tell us our neighbours had reported that we have a pitbull (over here pitbulls are a restricted breed and have to be declared and kept the same as a dangerous dog would). Our dog is an American Staffordshire Terrier but because she doesn't have pedigree papers proving that, she has now been declared a dangerous dog. This means that she has to be kept in a secure pen at all times other than if we are outside with her - in that case she is allowed out of her pen, but has to be kept on a lead and wear a muzzle, even in our backyard! We have to put huge signs on all entrances to our property, stating there is a dangerous dog here. She needs to be re-microchipped, and her council registration will now cost 3x what it used to.
My dog is a huge baby! She sleeps in my bed! Shes the same age as my son, and we've had her since she was 12 weeks old, so they have grown up together. She loves the kids to pieces and they her. She has NEVER done a dangerous thing in her life! My partner is a dairy farmer and often takes her to work with him - she's scared of the calves, let alone the cows :(
But because some idiot who has never even met her, just drove past and decided that he didn't like the look of her, she now has to be locked up for the rest of her life and treated like a monster for nothing!!
As if that wasn't devastating enough though, our other dog (an Australian Bulldog) who was only 8 months old, was hit by a car and killed this morning :'(
Whoever hit her didn't bother coming to let us know, nor did any cars who must have driven past afterward. We let her outside when we woke up this morning, and it wasn't until we went outside 2 hours later that we found her :( the gates were shut so we have no idea how she got onto the road in the first place, but not only am I in shock that shes gone, I'm also in shock that whoever did it didn't have the decency to come and tell us! She was just left there in the middle of the road to be hit again :'(
Her name was Puppy Dog (or PD if you ask my partner) thanks to my 6 year old daughter naming her. She was a dopey little thing, you could whistle to her and she'd run in the opposite direction, she tripped over her own feet, and she sat around with her tongue hanging out of her mouth the majority of the time. But she was sweet and loving, so ugly she was adorable lol, and such a clown. She's definitely going to be missed and I'm sure I'll never meet another dog like her :(
RIP Puppy Dog xx