I applaud all of your efforts canukgirl and the great pains you did take to try to find out if the dog had owners that want her and would care for her - I think it is BS when people say that the dog is theirs but then don't want to do what is necessary to keep the animal safe (and other people and pets safe from the animal if it's required), healthy and fed. I have had to make little interventions many times like stopping to give a dog water and nicely bring to owner's attention the dog's plight to keep it from dying of heat exhaustion because it was chained in full sunlight on a porch, or to free a dog that was nearly hanging itself from a short chain and had fallen off a porch so it did not have to sleep in its own crap, and stuff like that. Not to mention dogs left for days without food and water, chained or not. It's like some people want the joy of ownership but not the responsibility; and in this case it's especially important since dogs roaming freely that are not spayed/neutered make lots more dogs, more than the island can sustain or tolerate (hence the threat of dog poisoning and the stray dog round up for euthanization that had to take place to head it off). I make a note of the fact that from what I understand the people calling for the latest dog poisoning by making complaints to the Health Officer were local (native) residents, so clearly the "it's their country leave them alone and let their dogs roam" notion is not agreeable to all people who were born here. If you have kids and don't take proper care of them, what happens to them?
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