Registered Breeding Dog In Council Pound - Help Required

[BJean]

Hi There,

I'm wondering if I can get a fast reply about this, a friend of mine has 2 female staffy's both microchipped, the older one registered. The older girl is registered as a breeding girl and the younger one (just a puppy) was due for registration next week. She lives in Central coast NSW.

Today she had an incident where she left to pick her kids up, her dogs were in her yard safely when she left, and within 2 hours of leaving she had a call from her local council advising that they had been found 3 kms from her home and they could not find the microchip on the older dog and she will be being spayed either tonight or tomorrow morning as well as the baby.

She is absolutely devestated, as she has proof about this, and no way of getting to the pound to pick them up and she is also upset because she can clearly feel the microchip on her adult dog. Because they called her just before 5 they told her she could not have her dogs until tomorrow once they had been spayed and would not allow her to come in to show her proof.

Does anyone have any adivce?

Yes. Sounds familiar.

Technically they think they can spay because the owner has been found, and under the pound ethos

(often staffed by zealots on this issue)

if the dogs are going home tomorrow, then the dogs have to be desexed before tomorrow / going home.

Tell her to go to her local Police Station and make a report that her property is being damaged.

She may needs legal support / representation on hand also.

Edited May 5, 2011 by lilli

[Ambrosia]

Hi ishka81

Did this get resolved today?

[InspectorRex]

I agree with the others, get your friend to go to a Police Station asap and report that the dogs(aka"Goods") are "being tampered with" without the express consent of the owner.

Dogs are classed as "goods" so no 3rd party cant "tamper" with said goods without written consent of the owner of said "goods".

Hopefully( meaning praying) that the dogs have not been desexed.

[wherezaball]

sounds to me someone has their wires crossed...OR something VERY dodgy going on...either the dogs are not actually at the pound and have been been picked up by someone pretending to be the pound OR someone has mis-interpeted the phone call.

Now while it is not unheard of for Council Officers to try to go outside the law. This is WAY outside and not something even the most dodgy Officer could even think of getting away with.

In NSW non-chipped dog must be held for 7 days before they are processed through adoption program and desexed etc in preparation for rehoming.

chipped dogs must be held for 14 days.

If the owner is a reigstered breeder, can produce pedigree papers for the dog and sign a declaration stating the dog is for breeding purposes they can then lifetime register the dog, chip it and pay release fees and home the dog goes.

The council can only make an owner desex a dog IF it is declared dangerous or is a restricted dog and that is a whole other debate and process...

will be interesting to hear what happens here.

[Sheridan]

Honestly, the whole tale sounds rather dodgy. Has the owner got her dogs back?

[ishka81]

Honestly, the whole tale sounds rather dodgy. Has the owner got her dogs back?

Hi All,

Sorry for the long delay in reply.

To answer a few questions: these dogs DO NOT have a history of ever escaping from the yard, and in this case the gates had been tampered with and the dogs were clearly let out or stolen. They were found 3kms away from home, she had left them safe and sound (she had sighted them at this point) at 2.30pm and the council (Gosford) had picked them up by 3.30pm. The phone call she received from them to advise they had been impounded was at 4.50pm. The officer she originally spoke to at this time told her that she could pick them up tomorrow but that they would be desexed before she picked them up and was quite horrible to her on the phone.

My friend with the help of quite a few people managed to get her dogs out the following day, undesexed. When she queried the phone call from the night before the person she spoke to advised that they had no idea what she was talking about - council officer on a power trip maybe??

The younger of the two dogs had a deep gash on her back leg that was quite badly infected by the following afternoon when they were collected and the vet advised it looked significantly like ropeburn. All a very weird and disturbing occurrance all around.

The dogs are now safe back home and the gates have been padlocked and they have invested in a security camera. They also submitted a police report, but without any hard evidence, the police are doubtful anything will occur, they provided photos of the tampered with fence as well.

Hopefully nothing else happens again. Thanks again for all the replies!

[Sue]

So glad the dogs are home safe, if not fully sound.

I personally wouldn't leave the matter there and would be writing a letter to the CEO, Mayor and Councillors of the local authority letting them know how what transpired and how she was treated by a staff member. It isn't on that your friend felt threatened and her dogs were potentially put at risk from an unnecessary and rushed operation.

If she gets no response, the newspaper is another avenue though having a bull breed she may not wish to go public.

[persephone]

I am glad she got her dogs back -

[Bully]

So glad both dogs are home. What a horrible experience

Hope the leg heals quickly

[oakway]

For once a happy ending for all.

Thanks for letting us all know about it.

[OSoSwift]

Thanks for letting us know. Glad the dogs are home safe.