How Was Your Day? High Five

[Kirsty :]]

Heheee your fairy cakes look well cool

Work was alright after, quite a laugh actually... been roped into starting at half 10 tomorrow morning now... until close
On the plus side, Curves.. the ladies gym from next door brought leaflets around and a special offer for us staff.... free joining! Yahoooo I wanted to join there anwyays but I can join for free if I want too

[Chloe O'brien]

My sister is having her dog put down today. He head butted my cousin then tried to bit him on the face yesterday. He's never been vicious before. My mum rang the vet and she said it could be a chemical imbalance. They tried to rehome him with a family without young children last night but the Dog's Trust said he would always have to be muzzled and on a lead. Bruno is not the type of dog that you could keep muzzled, he's always playfighting with the other dog and cries when he doesn't get attention.

I love Bruno and don't want him to die, but you can't take the risk with a young child in the house and others that frequently visit. They got him from a dog shelter when he was 9 months old. He was difficult to control then, always running off, barking at men, running round the house and garden at top speed. The shelter couldn't tell them anything about his history, why he'd been abandoned or anything to help them with his behaviour. They've had him three years and you still can't stand on the doorstep and talk to a man because Bruno will be barking and jumping up or running off.

The other dog, Charlie, is already depressed. She can sense when something's not right. Not sure how Maisie is going to react when she goes back on Sunday to find Bruno isn't there. I don't even know if she will understand what death means. They're as thick as thieves.


Sorry for the ramble, just had to get that off my chest.

Abigail I am sorry to here about Bruno having to be put down but your right you can't have the risk that he won't try and bite again. I surprised though that the re-homing centre gave your sister a dog that they knew nothing about it's history to a family with children. I know when my sister and I went to the dog and cat home years ago when I bought Yogi. My sister liked Yogi to begin with but because he had been abandoned they would not allow her to take him as she had young children. I took Yogi and he turned out to be a fantastic dog all the kids loved him.

[Abigail]

It turns out that the rehoming centre knew the dog had problems before they homed him. He was given new owners three times while he was in there before my sister took him. They even gave him to an old lady who thought he would walk himself He's hyperactive, walking around a house isn't going to do much for him.

They have the facilities to retrain problem dogs but it was never mentioned and never offered. It's free to them because they are a charity. They don't care about dogs there, they have never done a home visit or inspection, or rang to see how he is getting on. Apparently there was warning signs that he was a "dangerous" dog long before this happened. They are blaming my sister for not noticing that she "was becoming a member of his pack and he was becoming aggressive." WTF, if they had done a home visit then maybe they would have picked up on it. Unless you're trained in that area, I don't see how you would recognise little insignificant things.

So in short, the rehoming centre could have done something to prevent this

[Katy]

im sorry to hear about the dog

I have got soo much work to do, its all piling up again, as soon as i get up to date i get a load more, so im thinking a work and telly weekend.

[Abigail]

I have so much work to do too. I'm heading to the library later to do my PDP assignment that's due in on Tuesday. Only 500 words so not too bad. I really should make a start on my other assignment too. No rush though, library has gone 24hours so I'll go later on.

[Tannie]

I have the cold . Feel absolute crap and would love to lie in bed and sleep tomorrow but i can't i have to finish a essay, do the introduction and first paragraph of my Extended Essay Draft, and english questions. Luckily i read up to page 51 of the book we were meant to read for monday last night. But yeah it sucks!

Watched Mamma Mia last night, and got to see my Uncle, Aunt and Cousin whom i haven't seen in like a year and a half! cause they live over in Arran and it's not very often they come over. Was great seeing them again!

Today i went over to edinburgh with my grandma, even with this cold. It was fun, Princes Street looked weird with no traffic on it. Didn't do much through then came home and i curled up on the sofa with a packed of crisps, a bounty and a cup of tea and watched Mamma mia again to cheer me up then came on and just on the net, listening to music and on msn really.

[Kirsty :]]

Been in work since half 10 this morning, but had a good day... works been good. Apart from we had to close early because there was a gas leak so we had to turn the gas off which meant we couldn't cook more food... oh well, I'd rather not feed people and allow them to find somewhere else to eat than risk everyones lives in all honesty! So yeah we got out at 9
My mouth is still really hurting ... I can barely open my mouth which results in barely being able to eat I can't even eat my cous cous

I can hear an owl

[CrazyLea]

Lmao Kirsty. I love how you were like talking about work and your teeth.. then you pipe up and say

"I can hear an owl " I don't know why.. maybe it's my weird sense of humour.. but I laughed so hard .

Oh my gosh.. seriously I am getting SO clumsy at work...
I smashed 2 glasses.. spilt a hole glass of coke on the floor (kids fault though, they totally caused it!! Work mate said so aswell).. dropped numerous knives and forks on the floor.. jammed my finger in a door a bit... seriously I'm gonna need a lot of insurance me thinks .

[Kirsty :]]

Lmao Lea you're weird thoguh... it was rather out of the blue lol

HAHA LEA! Are you carrying them or are you playing in the 6 nations with them!?

I'm always dropping knives and forks aswell though... and the occasional sausage or spare rib or something. It happens

[StarsOfCCTV]

It turns out that the rehoming centre knew the dog had problems before they homed him. He was given new owners three times while he was in there before my sister took him. They even gave him to an old lady who thought he would walk himself He's hyperactive, walking around a house isn't going to do much for him.

They have the facilities to retrain problem dogs but it was never mentioned and never offered. It's free to them because they are a charity. They don't care about dogs there, they have never done a home visit or inspection, or rang to see how he is getting on. Apparently there was warning signs that he was a "dangerous" dog long before this happened. They are blaming my sister for not noticing that she "was becoming a member of his pack and he was becoming aggressive." WTF, if they had done a home visit then maybe they would have picked up on it. Unless you're trained in that area, I don't see how you would recognise little insignificant things.

So in short, the rehoming centre could have done something to prevent this

That's bad. Write a letter or ring whoever regulates homing centres. Or lodge an official complaint against them or something like that. When we got Basil from the rescue center (Battersea) the only reason they didn't give us a home visit was because we had a cat already.

I've applied for a volunteer position driving old people to medical appointments/odd jobbing around the house/getting their shopping. Don't want a proper job yet, this will look good on my CV and be something nice to do.

And getting a new phone. £40 off because its an upgrade as I was on a contract for ages.

I couldn't be bothered with the party. Got a bit of a cold and bleh...we had a chinese though it was yumm