Knowsley Council offered £300 compensation but that is blood money and I haven’t accepted.

Any Ideas?

Robert Stack

are either the police, the social services or the police doing anything about this?

The RSPCA collected Whiskey from Huyton Police Station on their behalf to look after Whiskey until he could be collected but did not mention this to the RSPCA agent at time of collection. Knowsley Council also did not contact the RSPCA and mention Whiskey was someone’s property.

A total breakcown in communication between Huyton Police and Knowsley Council.

Robert Stack

Sorry for the delay in replying.

Did a contractor for Knowsley council collect Whiskey and take him to the RPSCA?

This may explain why the RSPCA thought he was a stray dog, especially if the person taking the dog in did not mention anything to the RSPCA people when handing him over?

I thought from other posts above that Whiskey was taken in by an RSPCA Collection Driver?

What are Knowlsey council saying they are responsible for?

The Rspca seem to be intimatimg that it was Knowsley Council to blame and Knowsley Council admit they are partly to blame but Knowsley Council did not do the deed.

Thats what the problem is, whoever it is dealing with dogs, whether they are strays or ones that need to be temporarily cared for, people feel that it is not a priority or they should not be dealing.

End of the day, we should have the best level of care possible and to hell with the cost for people and animals, but thats never going to happen in the UK.

Is anybody going to do anything about what happened, or are they all blaming each other, which is the usual procedure for incompetence!

What you said was a 100% right. The RSPCA had the police report in front of their eyes but never or most probably couldn’t be bothered to act upon it.

Thank you for your post on this site.

What has happened to Whiskey is just the sort of thing that occurs when the authorities do not follow correct procedures.

In my council area the police contact the dog warden to ask for assistance and the dog warden organises temporary accommodation of the dog or other animal until the next of kin or friend or relation can take over caring for the animal.

In the case of deceased persons with no relatives, the procedure is to hold the animal until the executor of the will decides what to do based on certain circumstances, this can be let another person have the animal or let the council arrange rehoming.

This unfortunate incident appears to be a case of too many people being involved and thinking others were sorting Whiskey out.

It is bizarre though that the RSPCA assume that Whiskey was a stray when there was no documentary indication of this?

A bureaucratic blunder results in the death of a dog because people cannot be bothered to check things out properly!