In praise of our dog wardens
I criticise the council a fair bit on here, because often they’re rubbish. But, credit where it’s due, they often provide a good service, and on occasion excel themselves. And tonight I have cause to congratulate them after we had to call on them to remove a dog which had implanted itself firmly in our lives!
Tamsin rang me at work to say that she’d seen a dog dicing with death outside our house, playing “Run Me Over! I Dare You!” with a number of passing cars. She went and rescued it from its predicament, but then it wouldn’t leave her alone despite her efforts. It didn’t have a collar and when I got home it wouldn’t tell me where it lived despite me asking politely. And so we had to ring the Council dog wardens via the switchboard.
Despite no prior warning, and the time of day (after 5pm), they were round our house in half an hour to take the dog away, and had a nifty little machine that could tell us whether it had been chipped or not. Thankfully it had, and will be reunited with its owner courtesy of the very lovely lady in the dog van.
So well done Bury Council and its dog wardens!
Rick
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