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10/Jan/2012

Lynette Morley, Middle Swan

Comments: 4 readers have left a comment

WHEN the weather is windy and stormy, it should be up to pet owners to place pets indoors if there is a chance the storm will damage their fence.

There is nothing more heartbreaking then seeing scared dogs running across and along busy roads because they have been let out, especially as I swerve to avoid them and hope the traffic behind me manages to do the same.

What everyone else is thinking

Margaret

16/01/2012

The trouble is in some instances where a person is renting the landlord will not allow pets in the house. The pet owner is then inbetween a rock and a hard place as it is hard enough to get a rental property where you are allowed pets at all so the tenant can not afford to get chucked out of the property so therefore the poor pet remains outside, terrified and a lot of the time ends up dying ,either through getting out and being hit by a vehicle, starving to death, or being put down by the council.

Anne Jackson

10/01/2012

Our dog used to run inside and hide under a bed when thunder and lightning was going on outside. He was a big dog and a very good watch dog. My father who worked with animals all his life used to tell us as children that a dogs instinks tell him what another dog is and what a cat is etc but it doesn't understand what lightning and thunder is so is therefore afraid of it.

Shelly

10/01/2012

I agree; my dog is an indoors pet anyway; but some people don't think twice about their animals (not just dogs) in the nasty weather & that's a shame; owning an animal is a responsibilty & people need to take that more seriously.

Sasha

10/01/2012

Well I think all dogs as well as cats should be inside every night especially in stormy weather, , I as a dog owner would never leave my dog outside to sleep, a pet is part of a family and should there be with it's family unless there is certain circumstnces to prevent that.