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ABANDONED DOGS

Sadly, thousands of dogs are abandoned by their owners every year for various reasons. It is a criminal offence to purposefully fail to provide a dog’s essential needs by abandoning it. For more information about animal welfare legislation, please see the Animal Welfare Advice section of the A-Z.

What should you do if you find an abandoned dog?

If you find an abandoneddog, you should contact your local authority who will advise you what to do or they will come and collect the dog.

What happens to abandoned dogs in the UK?

Abandoned dogs are taken into the care of local authorities by dog wardens. This applies to dogs found roaming the streets or reported by members of the public. It is the responsibility of the local authority to deal with abandoned dogs atall times; this responsibility no longer lies with the police except in Scotland where responsibility is shared.

Dogs Trust is unable to accept or collect any stray or abandoned dogs from the streets. Only the Local Authority has a legal responsibility and authority to accept and care for stray dogs. The law states that the dog owner has seven days in which to collect their dog from the LocalAuthority. Once this seven day period is over, the Local Authority is at liberty to hand over the stray or abandoned dogs to charities such as Dogs Trust. Wherever possible we will take stray and abandoned dogs into our rehoming centres and will then try to find loving new homes for them.



We never destroy a healthy dog http://www.dogstrust.org.uk/az/a/abandoneddogs/default.aspxThe Secret Life of (Abandoned) Dogs




Things I can never know about Roxie


By Francis Battista

Sometimes, usually in the evening, Roxie lies on the dog couch in our kitchen with the sad look of a dog who is waiting for the center of her world to return. You know the look. It is during these brief interludes that Roxie tells me a story with her eyes and herbody language of a terrible thing that happened to her. If I didn't know the facts of her case, I could probably fill them in with a high degree of accuracy.

Roxie was found sitting by the side of the road in the Angeles National Forest north of Los Angeles. The area is as infamous for dumping bodies as it is for dumping dogs. She was flanked by two cardboard boxes each containing four puppies.Her slightly skewed gait suggested a hip injury. X-rays revealed a fracture in the head of her thigh bone, the ball part of her hip's ball and socket joint.

The woman who found Roxie, a working mother and dog groomer, found good homes for the puppies without difficulty, but finding a place for Roxie proved too much. The big girl had some issues to contend with: She was a submissive wetter andsuffered from gale force level separation anxiety, on top of being a not-at-all-trained large dog. But the nice woman and Roxie lucked out, and she got a much-coveted pass to Best Friends.

It was arranged that I would bring her back to the sanctuary, but several days of foul weather forced us to bed down for a few nights in Los Angeles.

It was obvious that Roxie was desperate for a person, andit didn't take much more than a few nights of her sleeping on my head and a few bowls of kibble to convince her that I was that person. I was pretty taken with her, as well.

So Roxie wound up sharing a house with me, my wife Silva, and 15 other dogs. True to her advance billing, she tore the place up whenever we left her alone. She had a few other bonus tricks, too: like, whenever I would goout the front door, for however short a time, Roxie would jump up on the dining table to keep an eye on me. If scolded for being on the table, she would pee on the spot! Crate training and patience seem to have addressed most of her problems. Although she still jumps up on the table, she no longer pees when told to get down. We are grateful for all progress.

Roxie is quiet and undemanding and...