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Whilst it is great that the dog has been reunited with its owner, could the opening headline be changed? It appears the dog wasn't stolen, from what I can see, but (wrongly) handed in to a vet as being lost or abandoned. The change to 'Returned' is great, but maybe 'Stolen' to 'Missing' as well?


Too many people judge the area based on the headlines on e.g. this forum. This says that there is a dog stealing issue locally (which may be so, but which this thread isn't, it seems, evidence for).

alice Wrote:

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> Just seems weird



Well if you don't believe Turtle, I guess you could always go and ask the vet yourself :)


ETA: I have sometimes seen dogs who didn't look very happy tied up outside shops and have wondered whether I should do something about it.


If this dog was distressed and/or had been left there for a long time, it doesn't surprise me at all that somebody might have taken him/her to the vet, since there is a vet more or less opposite the shop in question.

It sounds to me as though somehow the dog got loose before someone caught it and took it to the vet (not knowing what else to do). Surely the important thing is that the dog has made it back to the owner? And maybe to also say that whilst most of the time a dog can be safely left outside without anything happening to it, that there are people out there, who do steal dogs, especially pure breeds with a resale or breeding value. Even someone just being mischievous in letting the dog loose could have led to a tragic accident. It just takes one scoundrel to lose a beloved pet and always better to be safe than sorry.

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