What are the best doggie forums?
I'm a member of three very lively forums - dfordog, dogclub and the UK Labradoodle Association. I'm guessing there are many more out there.
When something like the Skoda Hull fiasco happens it would be great to be able to tell all dog lovers something really quickly and get them to all complain and show unity.
If you are a member of any other doggie forums could you copy and paste this message and see if we can get something done about changing this trend for people (even the police!) to think it is acceptable to let lost dogs go after they have been found.
If you're on a great doggie forum, can you leave a comment here, a sort of mini review and tell us how easy it is to join? I got excluded from a show dog forum when I tried to join - so I can't communicate with the show people on this sort of topic - which is a great shame as hopefully we all love dogs and they'd want to know! So if you're on any show dog lists - please cross post this appeal. People spend far too long worrying about differences instead of looking at the common ground. We all love dogs.
Any of our dogs could have been the dog that died in Hull.
Requiem for a lost dog
Please read the blog:
http://coldwetnose.blogspot.com/2007/10/thinking-of-skoda.html
and the subsequent ones which gives the details of who to complain to.
The callous actions of the staff of the Skoda dealership in Hull caused the needless death of a lost dog. We feel Skoda should issue a formal apology to all their doggie customers, who will be appalled by their actions.
Please read the blog and register your disapproval with the Skoda press office – plus if possible contact Top Gear and The One Show (http://www.bbc.co.uk/theoneshow/contact/ideas.shtml) who we have asked to cover this item and to name and shame the Hull dealership. Human lives could have been taken, too had someone swerved or run into the road to save this poor frightened dog.
We are also alarmed that two days later another blog reader was advised by the police ‘to just let go’ the elderly lost dog they had found wandering. They didn’t and the 17 year dog has now been reunited with his loving owner. But how many other people would do what the police advised?
What price a life?
Is a Skoda for the scrapheap and not the dog lover?
And are all police now advising finders to release stray dogs into traffic at weekends?
When something like the Skoda Hull fiasco happens it would be great to be able to tell all dog lovers something really quickly and get them to all complain and show unity.
If you are a member of any other doggie forums could you copy and paste this message and see if we can get something done about changing this trend for people (even the police!) to think it is acceptable to let lost dogs go after they have been found.
If you're on a great doggie forum, can you leave a comment here, a sort of mini review and tell us how easy it is to join? I got excluded from a show dog forum when I tried to join - so I can't communicate with the show people on this sort of topic - which is a great shame as hopefully we all love dogs and they'd want to know! So if you're on any show dog lists - please cross post this appeal. People spend far too long worrying about differences instead of looking at the common ground. We all love dogs.
Any of our dogs could have been the dog that died in Hull.
Requiem for a lost dog
Please read the blog:
http://coldwetnose.blogspot.com/2007/10/thinking-of-skoda.html
and the subsequent ones which gives the details of who to complain to.
The callous actions of the staff of the Skoda dealership in Hull caused the needless death of a lost dog. We feel Skoda should issue a formal apology to all their doggie customers, who will be appalled by their actions.
Please read the blog and register your disapproval with the Skoda press office – plus if possible contact Top Gear and The One Show (http://www.bbc.co.uk/theoneshow/contact/ideas.shtml) who we have asked to cover this item and to name and shame the Hull dealership. Human lives could have been taken, too had someone swerved or run into the road to save this poor frightened dog.
We are also alarmed that two days later another blog reader was advised by the police ‘to just let go’ the elderly lost dog they had found wandering. They didn’t and the 17 year dog has now been reunited with his loving owner. But how many other people would do what the police advised?
What price a life?
Is a Skoda for the scrapheap and not the dog lover?
And are all police now advising finders to release stray dogs into traffic at weekends?
Comments
If you need any other contacts please let me know as I have a database of a million journalists at my disposal if necessary.
I'm not really up on the forum side of things I'm afraid...
I never knew there was a forum for Skoda owners... they gave me a very hard time! It's interesting talking to people who aren't necc dog lovers. In the main they were sympathetic to the dealership! One dog lover said they'd be upset if it had been their dog it happened to, but I was fighting a losing battle! Quite depressing it was!
Ill pop a linky on www.victoriastilwell.com which I mod/manage as well.
Just a thought but doesnt the law deem the adult in charge of the animal as liable for the accident.... and the skoda dealership person agreed to take the dog, thereby agreeing to be responsible.....
Can we see where I'm going with this... allowing a dog to be dangerously out of control in a public place, liable for accident caused, possibly liable for causing unecessary suffering...
The law works against us so much of the time regarding dogs, why cant it work FOR us this time?
Linky - warning, contains snark and rude words.
This would be a good one :)
Friendliest bunch of people I have "met" on a forum
Not a single response on the forum I posted on. They are all too busy spitting venom about the existence of Jackipatts and Cockerpoos.
Just a thought but doesnt the law deem the adult in charge of the animal as liable for the accident....
Sounds good to me!
I had posted all the email addresses for relevant local contacts at the BBC, ITV and at Top Gear but realised afterwards that it wouldn't be a good idea for all blog readers to email them. We need them on-side, not bombarded by emails, so I've sent them the relevant information and your details in case they need more detail. Let me know if you want all the contacts though, and I'll email them through.
Graham.
www.dogsey.com is an ok doggy site, could be worth posting on there too, Beverley. I was thinking of doing it, but I shall leave it up to you, if you like.
I will also email The One Show and Top Gear.