Removing a dog from a house. - Page 4

Tell us again, just how the dog has been getting food and water and just how many days has it been locked up in the house?
Mithuna...what about the trainer you've taken your dog to? Wouldn't this trainer be willing to help get the dog out of the house? All this situation needs is someone knowledgeable of dog behavior. Jenny is right: "it's a dog, not a lion."
The sleeve is a good idea. Having tasty treats like raw meat will help. Poor dog.

Mithuna, would you please PM me the town where the dog is located, so I can get a better idea of travel time?

Thanks.

Hexe, you are a certified bad-ass.

Cover travel costs and I'll do it.

Cover travel costs and I'm sure the UK's RSPCA Inspectors would do it.

OK there was a good end to this sad story. An annoyed neighbor of the aquaintance called a rescue service who in turn showed up with the county AC personnel.I was told that cops in the local precinct was planning to shoot the dog. Upon AC request via the owner the caretaker allowed AC and the rescue personnel to enter. They found the dog actually tied and kind of emanciated. With a lady coaxing from the rescue personnel ( AC standing by with the lasso on a pole ), in 10 mins the rescue personnel first was able to touch the dogs back ( near the tail ); she worked her way up, and was able to put a leather lasso on him, and take him outside. On the spot AC signed the dog over to the rescue service. The dog has been vetted and the rescue service owner has decided to adopt the dog as a personal dog for her house.

What I find strange is that instead of putting the dog back into the adoptable population the rescue owner kept the dog themselves. So now it seems like the rescue org used a kind of mob tactic to obtain a dog for their personal house hold , with the AC being used to divorce the owner from ownership.
I was told that the caretaker may be prosecuted in criminal court.
The new owner ( the owner of the rescue org ) seems to like the dog and I am very happy to see him have a new home.
And thanks to Hexe for her heroic spirit. Now I can say I am impressed and Hexe is indeed a lover of the breed.

I am not giving out names because I spoke to a lot of persons about the issue, and even thought about lodging a complaint about the AC officer to her superiors. But its all good now.

I am relieved to hear that the dog will now receive care and have a home. Mithuna and all those who offered help and even to drive there, you have a load of good karma points coming your way - cudos to you.

Mithuna, very happy to hear that this was resolved, and done so without any harm coming to the dog.

I admit the news that the dog was tied up inside the dwelling distresses me; was the owner of the dog not aware of this? Doesn't appear that detail wasn't passed along to the person who was trying to take care of the dog, nor to you--had that been known when you first inquired about this, I would have gone there immediately...the dog is lucky to be alive, if it was unable to reach the food and water the 'caretaker' was allegedly putting in through the window. I suspect the neighbor's annoyance was the result of a dog that is tied up, starving and dehydrating most likely barking, howling and whining, and that neighbor did the dog a huge favor by getting a rescue involved.

As for the rescue individual electing to keep the dog, given the dog's reputation, the organization could well be hesitant about offering the dog to the public for adoption; should the dog ever bite someone, the group would be held liable...it's happened already, with dogs that weren't reputed to pose any risk, so most rational rescues and shelters are understandably leery about putting themselves in that position willingly.

Thank you for getting involved in getting this dog to safety. Perhaps this situation makes it clearer to you and Shawnicus what so many of us have been trying to get you both to see: a dog that can't be safely approached by a friendly or neutral stranger--or is believed to be so--is one at greater risk of losing its life before its time.

Why is it that a cop's first way of handling something is to go for their damn gun??    

I'm sorry, I am NOT a cop-hater, and have great respect for anyone who chooses to do such a difficult job, but training needs to be better, and a gun should NOT be the first resort either when dealing with people OR dogs!  (Unless, of course, police are dealing with an active shooter...)

Hexe, lady, you were already first class in my book, long before this... 

SS, I get what you're saying, but I can't blame the officer in this case...the dog was being portrayed as something that couldn't be approached or handled by anyone other than the owner. While there are few dogs that are *truly* completely dangerous to anyone save the owner [folks might be surprised how amenable most of these alleged 'anti-social' dogs when their owners are nowhere on the premises], it's not fair to expect law enforcement or animal control to just take a bite, either.

Fortunately, the ACO for the dog's location appears to have been one of the reasonable kind, and along with the rescue individual, they were able to handle the situation without any harm coming to anyone.