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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: doganjo on January 01, 2013, 10:34:26 pm
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Trying to get notice taken of the situation. Please feel free to sign this petition
Introduce legislation to reduce the incidence of dog theft
Responsible department: Home Office
Dog theft is common. All kinds of dogs are stolen from owners and when the owners go to the police they are told ‘There is nothing we can do, it’s just a dog’ We are all aware that the police are under pressure with budget cuts, but we need to make sure that they are willing and able to prioritize a stolen dog over a stolen bike or phone.
At present stealing a dog is the perfect crime, the police won’t pursue them and if they get caught, the penalty is minimal, yet there is a massive reward either in selling the dog, claiming reward money or using the dog as bait for dog fighting .
We, as tax payers, have the right to protection from thieves as do our dogs. We would respectfully request that the police be given a remit to give higher priority to stolen dogs and that when dog thieves are caught, they face higher penalties in court, fines set to reflect the theft and even lengthy jail sentences when it is appropriate
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/38335 (http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/38335)
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Done!
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Done
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Done it
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Thanks, we were aiming to reach 100 by midnight last night, which it did and still climbing, pass the link around please if you feel you can.
There have been a couple of leads in Yorkshire on Dawn's GSP, she is checking them out now. Will let you all know when Angel gets home.
Annie
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signed.
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Done.
It's not just dogs, though. I know it's difficult to prove anything about "stolen" cats (they tend to decide themselves who they want to live with...). How do the police act when other companion animals get stolen, i.e horses, donkeys etc?
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I cannot believe what I just read!!
A dog corresponding to Angel's description was handed in to a Police station on N Y Eve. In the morning the same person went back and took her away saying he'd made a mistake and that it was a neighbour's dog.
All the Police can say is that it was the same person - they took no details at either time! So if it was Angel we are hoping they have realised which dog she is and taken her to some other establishment to try to claim the £3000 reward that we have all contributed to.
No paperwork done, no names, no pack drill, no evidence - unbelievable! Useless twats!
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I'm sure they have CCTV images.
To be fair, on New Year's Eve, they may have had more important things on their minds than dogs.
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CCTV perhaps, we are following that up. More important than dogs? What is? Drunks? Stabbings? Not in my opinion. :rant:
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Me & the wife just done it.
Richard
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Done! Some people's dogs are as dear as a child.
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Signed
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done it. I couldn't believe what the police did either!!
One idea thats floating around my head is that there are many reports of near misses - ie "man in white van tries to grab dog and is thwarted by dog owner in Townsville" etc.. Those incidents will be definitely ignored by the police. I wonder if a site like doglost would be willing to set up a page to log these incidents? Especially if reg nos are noted. Some sort of pattern may then emerge? What do you think?
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Done. :)
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Lots of cats in my area gone missing over the last 2wks
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Not good i hope some think is done .
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Signed
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I love my dogs but come on the police have far more important things to do and if my dogs went missing I would not expect them to waste their time looking for them
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done it. I couldn't believe what the police did either!!
One idea thats floating around my head is that there are many reports of near misses - ie "man in white van tries to grab dog and is thwarted by dog owner in Townsville" etc.. Those incidents will be definitely ignored by the police. I wonder if a site like doglost would be willing to set up a page to log these incidents? Especially if reg nos are noted. Some sort of pattern may then emerge? What do you think?
Certainly worth asking them - they are usually quite amenable to suggestions to improve their website.
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Done
We believe we thwarted the theft of Airedale, a van was parked on the hard shoulder of the A23 our regular walk route. Our Airedale acted totally out of character and pushed through a fence and disappeared, we spotted her on the hard shoulder running away from this parked van. She would have had to push through a slope of bramble bushes to get there (as we did painfully quickly to get to her). We did report this as even though we made an assumption as to the situation, we thought if there were enough reports, warnings may be given/ put up.
Our dogs and now cats are very much part of our family.
K
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I love my dogs but come on the police have far more important things to do and if my dogs went missing I would not expect them to waste their time looking for them
I do hope you never lose them then.
Mine have gone missing due to OTHER people leaving gates open. I wouldn't expect the police to search for my dogs either, but our local police sent out a squad car on Hogmanay last year to keep an eye out for them - they would have been checking other things out at the same time no doubt.. Fortunately the dogs came back - with bunnies in their mouths, but with a road and railway next to me I was very upset and I was grateful for their offer of help.
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Signed, if dogs are brought into the police, are they checked for microchips? Our older dogs are double chipped (USA/EU) both pedigrees and rescue dogs, the new pup is just EU chipped,their real value is as family members, but the pedigrees are between £800-£1000 which is a fair financial value worth being investigated.
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Signed, if dogs are brought into the police, are they checked for microchips? Our older dogs are double chipped (USA/EU) both pedigrees and rescue dogs, the new pup is just EU chipped,their real value is as family members, but the pedigrees are between £800-£1000 which is a fair financial value worth being investigated.
Not always. Not their responsibility we were told - all found dogs now go to dog warden then kennels. In England anyway.
We checked out a report on the 1st about a GSP that had been handed in to the Police at Rotherham. No details taken and the guy came back half an hour later, said the dog was his neighbours and got it back.
Dawn had a helluva job finding him but as it happens it wasn't Angel. She's still missing