Heartbreak As Authorities Lose Seized Dog
Published on August 13, 2010 by Alison Green · 4 CommentsA Hertfordshire family have been left devastated after police seized their much loved family pet …and then lost her.
Tootsie, an 18 month old staffie cross was seized on Tuesday morning after police acted on a warrant believing that Tootsies was a “pit bull type”. As the law allows, Tootsie was seized and taken to a secret location to await an examination to determine if she fitted the standard used for a banned breed.
However Tootsies owner Mikala Coulthard received a telephone call later that day to say that when they went to check on Tootsie she was missing leaving her family heartbroken.
Mikala says “We have been trying to get some information from the police but they will not disclose any information as to what area she was taken to or escaped from! I understand the need for not disclosing where the kennels are but how can we look for her when we don’t know where to look? All they keep saying is she must have jumped a 6.5 fence and that they have officers out looking for her.
Tootsie is a family pet and has never been in any trouble before. She lives with children who keep asking when shes coming home and another dog who is pining for her.
Tootsie is friendly with people and dogs and we are worried that it’s been nearly 3 days now. She will be cold, tired and hungry and we beg anyone to please call if they see her. It may be someone has taken her into their home and we would ask those people to please contact the police on 0845 33 00 222 so we can get our baby back!”
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Tootsie doesn’t even look like a pit type. Seems to me the police are rounding up any sort of bull breed now without bothering to check what they really are.
I hope Tootsie is safe, but I can’t help wondering whether the police have put her down, perhaps in error, and are covering themselves by saying she is lost.
This is the second dog in a week to ‘escape’ from police kennels.
I have seen photos of the kennels, they have eight foot fences with two rows of barbed wire across the top, and CCTV cameras everywhere to prevent people breaking in and taking the dogs. Hard to see how a Staff could jump the fence when a GSD would struggle to!
i really feel for this family, if anyone took any of my animals i would be devastated, & then for the authorities to loose her? the authorities take innocent dogs from familys who are good family dogs, they need to sort the wheat from the shaft, all these young people with dogs like boys on street corners should be targeted, not normal familys!!!!!! i really do hope you find your baby!!!!!!!!! my heart goes out to you and your family!!!!!!
i am sick and tired of governments, all over the world passing laws that affect good people.
to take the dog to a secret place is horrendous to the owners. hell, we treat rapists and murderers better, then we let the good folks suffer.
I hope they found the dog and allowed by the stupid officers that took her to search and post her. Where are their minds. They are brainwashed into only following a law even tho it does not make sense
Let us know when she is found