DOG Stolen Just now 1635 RETURNED

[JohnL]

Sue Wrote:

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> alice Wrote:

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> > Just seems weird

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>

> 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.

My Mum's King Charles used to cry like he was in acute pain when she left it outside the local Post Office to collect her pension (for 5 minutes or less)- really loud wail.

He was back to normal the second she reappeared.

[Sue]

Penguin68 Wrote:

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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).

This is a good point. Is there any reason why the original heading hasn't been changed?

[intexasatthe moment]

Well now ,lets see ...poster busy with other things in life ,not their top priority ,missed Penguin's post ...

[Sue]

intexasatthe moment Wrote:

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> Well now ,lets see ...poster busy with other

> things in life ,not their top priority ,missed

> Penguin's post ...

They have been pretty active on this thread

[alice]

If admin requests it I?ll change the title otherwise it stands I can?t see how anyone is going to be put off coming to East Dulwich because of it. If people stop posting on here it will disappear like many threads of the past.

[intexasatthe moment]

Not since last night .Also re reading I note that Alice harbours some doubts about the "taking it to the vet" . I also note your suggestion that Alice could go to the vet's and check this out .

Maybe they still have doubts ,maybe they feel the most important thing is that the dog and owner are reunited and that thew matter is closed .

And can't be bothered to go to the vets in order make a decision about ammending a thread title on the EDF in case it gives the area a bad name .Or possibly they think that if people were that worried they might read the thread or even think "what nice thieves in ED ,returning stolen goods "

[Sue]

The current heading does imply that a thief returned a stolen dog to its owner - also implying that s/he knew who the owner was - which is rather more weird than somebody taking a possibly distressed dog to a vet, but hey ho, I guess there are more important things to do than change a heading on a forum thread :)

[alice]

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