Shock as Lost Family Dog is ‘Sold’ by Animal Recovery Firm
Fears have been raised today about a trade in stray dogs being sold after it emerged a company charged with the task of reuniting lost dogs with their owners actually sold a much loved family pet forcing a distraught owner to have to fight to gain his own dog back.
Earlier in the year warnings were given that a change in stray dog laws could spell an animal welfare crisis as councils pick up full responsibility for dealing with lost or strayed dogs.
Now it has come to light that a personal disaster has hit home for Adrian McCollin after his Husky, Kiss, ended up being sold by Animal Wardens Ltd, a firm given a local authority contract to deal with strays.
The sorry story gets murkier.
It is reported that Animal Wardens Ltd actually informed desperate Adrian that they had not found his dog at all when it eventually transpired that Kiss had actually been sold onto another family.
K9 Magazine understands that many pet industry professionals had privately expressed great concerns to the local authorities who had contracted out their dog collection responsibilities to Animal Wardens Ltd, to be aware of this type of incident several weeks before Mr McCollin’s upsetting experience.
Mr McCollin is furious and upset and is seeking legal advice after learning that Kiss was sold to a new family after spending 7 days in kennels. The new family is now unwilling to return the dog.
Kiss went missing on April 10th after being taken for a walk on the beach. She ended up in the town centre of Hastings St.Leonard.
Her desperate owner searched high and low for her and reported her missing to the local council immediately. They were directed to speak to Animal Wardens Ltd who had control of the stray dog contract for the local authority.
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After a week Adrian spent time and money postering in a desperate attempt to be reunited with his much loved companion. Having seen one of the posters, a town hall employee called Adrian to inform him that Kiss was handed in on or around the time that Adrian says she went missing a week earlier. The town hall employee told Adrian that the dog had been passed on to Animal Wardens Ltd.
“Even after calling them and informing them of the date and location of where my dog was picked up, they still denied having any knowledge of a Husky, Adrian explains”
It was after being told of what had happened to Kiss by a town hall official that Adrian confronted Animal Wardens Ltd again, insisting that they DID have his dog as he had been told as much by someone at the town hall. It was at this time that Animal Wardens Ltd admitted that they did indeed have the dog.
A drained and emotional Adrian revealed, “It has been so stressful, I am constantly thinking about it. I haven’t been able to eat or sleep properly.”
Animal Wardens Ltd is run by Paul Dunne. Mr Dunne has admitted his firm made a catalogue of errors, stating that Kiss was unidentified initially and sent to Viking Oaks kennels were strays are routinely taken. He told the Hastings Observer:
“Kiss was rehomed after the statutory seven day period that people have to reclaim dogs had expired. As Kiss is a friendly dog she has settled into her new home with a woman and her two-year-old child very well and, having purchased Kiss she does not want to give her back. We therefore have a stand-off situation that we are trying to resolve. We have offered recompense for the error but neither party wishes to give up rights of ownership to Kiss. As part of that compensation we have offered to purchase a pedigree Husky pup, but unfortunately both owner and keeper are attached to Kiss. This is a one off error that came about through a series of six mistakes, precautions have now been put in place to prevent a reoccurrence.”
A Hastings Council spokesman is quoted: “This is a very unfortunate incident. We know staff at our contractor, Animal Wardens Ltd, are working very hard to resolve this and we hope they will be able to reunite Kiss with her original owners as soon as possible.”
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Oh no – we have either another name for Rosie/Christina/Lola/Krysia/Ktystyna/Looney or another looney in our midst.
I tell you what,lets all just admit to being in a big conspiracy to steal dogs and swap them around with theDog Lost website. Then this looney will stop harrassing everyone and filling the forum up with crap.
WE ADMIT IT -WE STOLE ALL THE DOGS WHO HAVE EVER GONE MISSING – IT WAS US. WE ALSO CONSPIRED WITH THE DOG WARDENS FROM EPSOM. NOT!
Bog off Rosie, go walk your dog.
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Please moderators, please stop this insane woman hijacking these forums, who cares if she thinks she is being picked on, she is clearly unhinged and isnot contributing anything
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Lady of a thousand names
Email:
contactus@epsom-ewell.gov.uk or use our contact form
Tel: 01372 732000
Address:
Epsom & Ewell Borough Council
Town Hall
The Parade
Epsom
Surrey
KT18 5BY
Just because somebody does not deny something, does not mean they are a dog warden at Epsom & Newell Borough Council, please refer to your quote below:
‘Gnasher how do you know she is not dog warden for Epsom & Ewell? Moppetswood does not seem to deny it.’
I am not denying that I am Gordon Brown, does this mean that I might be due to not denying it?
You have really brought this thread off track with your obsession about moppetswood being from Epsom & Newell Borough Council.
Would the real dog wardens from Epsom & Newell please stand up (only if to save us from the many named one!)
Maybe you should be called ‘she who cannot be named’, then do an anagram of Voldemort and you get Rosie/Krysia ad infinitum!
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This thread seems to have come to a close anyway as it looks that Adrian took money form AW ltd and keeps quiet. So what else can anyone do for him?
What is so wrong with being a dog warden for Epsom & Ewell? As far as I am concerned there is nothing wrong at all. Gnasher, Why are you so angry about it. She said she was a dog warden in Surreyt and Epsom & Ewell is as good council to be a dog warden ( if not better) as any other.
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And Gnasher I never said that you were Gordon Brown. Dear Oh Dear…
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And I am sure Julie (Moppetswood) can speak for herself unless she became a lady of many names and already spoke.
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What is Rosie saying or doing and who is Julie?
Your the one saying moppetswood works at Epsom, then you change it to Surrey, then try to raise debate about what’s wrong with working for Epsom council?
Why are you doing this?
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Arthur
Epsom IS in Surrey. And I did not try to raise a debate about Epsom Council just rather taken aback by Gnasher’s respond.
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Oh yes and Julie is a dog warden for Epsom & Ewell. That is in SURREY.
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Hhmm,me thinks the many named Rosie protests too much,perhaps Rosie many names is the real dog warden from Epson/Surrey/Ewell, and is trying to throw everyone off her tracks, because of course, the elusive Epsom/Surrey/Ewell warden has been in hiding for years, snatching dogs and trading them on the doglost website…or perhaps Rosie many names is just unhinged. You decide.
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Who is/are the dog wardens at Epsom & Newell?
Since the Rosie Show started going on about them, I have become a pretty intrigued to know!
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To HHmmm,
You appear to be very simple. That is the nicest way I can describe you. A lot of you ( or may be it is just you)are turning this into a joke. If people who make these strange posts were normal they would not react like this to very normal comments. It just tells me and my friends who we are dealing with.
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Posted by HHmmm?? 13th November, 2008 at 11:10 am
Hhmm,me thinks the many named Rosie protests too much,perhaps Rosie many names is the real dog warden from Epson/Surrey/Ewell, and is trying to throw everyone off her tracks, because of course, the elusive Epsom/Surrey/Ewell warden has been in hiding for years, snatching dogs and trading them on the doglost website…
You said it. And by the way get yourself a map of South East.
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I want to say to you all that I am very sorry for causing all this unpleasantness and for coming across as a complete nutter. I wont be troubling you again and I wish everyone well in exposing Animal Wardens Ltd. for any malpractise they have done.
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Posted by ROSIE 15th November, 2008 at 1:03 pm
I want to say to you all that I am very sorry for causing all this unpleasantness and for coming across as a complete nutter. I wont be troubling you again and I wish everyone well in exposing Animal Wardens Ltd. for any malpractise they have done.
I DID NOT POST THAT. ROSIE.
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What is going on, has Rosie now started to argue with herself?
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It is just a matter of time ( maybe 5 more years) before some web sites are taken to the cleaners. It is so easy to find out who is posting.
I have noticed that Moppetswood as well as Bordercollieman are very quiet.Strange???????????
kind regard
woman of many names.
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Rosie- or not Rosie, – Dog Warden – or Dog Snatcher, Epsom – or Surrey, nutter – or nuttee, that is the question…….or is it…???
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Perhaps they have become fed up with Rosies constant accusations and decided to stop contributing?
What is it with the threats about being able to find out who is posting in a couple of years, why what are you going to do to people if you know who they are?
Very scarey!
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Anybody know whether or not Hastings Borough Council has sorted its act out regarding their dog control functions and perhaps 'gripped' Animal Wardens Limited into providing a satisfactory level of service that operates competently and correctly?
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Anybody wishing to have an update on the company Animal Wardens Ltd and what may have happened to the Husky called Kiss, you need to go on to the Pet Owners Parliament forum to read for yourself!
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Bad news for dogs in Manchester, this muppet and his company are apparently seizing dogs as Section One dogs on behalf of the Greater Manchester Police, problem being however, Mr Paul Dunne and his Animal Wardens Ltd clowns are not authorised to seize dogs for the police, so this is an illegal action.
The rumour is that none of the dogs seized were seen by the authorised police Dog Legislation Officer, this company is a true danger to dogs.
Any dog owners in Manchester who have had their dog seized as a Section One dog by this company on behalf of the police need to speak to a lawyer.
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Has anything else been heard about this company recently, or has everything died down?
DaveyC
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