Re: Foxhounds

hi,

i know how awful it is when a dog you know is attacked (its awful anyway but i think if you know them it is worse) and you want to help naturally 🙂  i cant quite understand why you didnt just call your dog back to you and all go rather than leaving the dog loose for any amount of time – one thing that comes to my mind is could your dog have panicked and ran across a road on the way home maybe causing a fatal accident … or even getting badly hurt itself ?

we have a hound pack near by – i think they are stunning, i used to pass them every morning being excercised on my way to work.  however i know for a fact they would have ripped apart any pet dog or dog which was not scented as one of the pack.

we are not talking a hound from a well established showing breeder here, its an irish pup and expectations would be that its from working lines and already missed much early socialisation leaving an even bigger job for its new “human”.  not everyone could take on a FH and succeed – probably more so than many other breeds, its not “foxhoundist” – I would say the same of the breed i love (border collies) a working lines border collie with drive is not a real “pet” dog it needs to do.

The irish think that their dog problems are solved by carting them all over here – I already know there are few homes and many 100’s of dogs waiting for homes in the UK and gawd knows how many being destroyed because shelters are full – i just think quality of life wise and chances of getting a good solid knowledgeable appropriate home are so slim that to put limited resources into carting him here and then all the rest of it – the dog would have few chances here why put a wee pup through the disgusting ordeal (and it is) of coming here and getting passed about like a bad penny.  i just dont agree with “no kill” for many reasons let the little one go and you know it wont suffer, chances are if it stays it is likely to IMO.

Claire.