This is what happens when councils do not take the issue of stray dogs seriously.

Surely by ‘telling’ the finder to let the dog go, if there had been a subsequent accident or incident then the council would have been liable for advising this course of action?

DEFRA is partly responsible for this state of affairs as well by not forcing councils to provide adequate stray dog facilities now that the police no longer deal with them out of hours.

Refusing to accept dogs because there is nowhere to take them obviously shows that this council needs to spend more effort and resources on the issue!

If the council employee who told the finder to let the dog go was a dog warden, they should possibly reconsider why they are doing the job!