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Fortunately, benefactors found it, detached and led 2km below, on the side of Place du Malpas and its Sunset. There, the beast was able to be refreshed and supported. Faced with such a case, we are sometimes helpless. Saviors therefore passed the word on local social networks. This is how a lady, fitted with a chip reader, tried to identify this pet. But he was still in the name of breeding, it seems, not his current owner, volatilized in nature. “”The dog left with the police towards the veterinary clinic. He is safe“, reassured one of the good souls intervened on the spot. Nevertheless, the commentators continued to vociferate on Facebook, loading an owner”villainous“, “who abandoned her dog to go on vacation“.
It still happens, unfortunately, but this would not be the case here. A witness explained that he had seen two men accompanied by an identical dog to take, at Namur station, an hour earlier, a bus joining Mettet and passing by Malonne and the Navinne road. The breed animal could actually have been stolen from its master. “The story is very vague for the moment, the police are dealing with it.”, Explained one of the guardian angels of the doggie, now in good hands. Contacted, the Namur police spokesperson was not empowered to comment on the file.
The call to the microphone gave nothing
Definitely, on this scorching Tuesday, a story of the same kind agitated the regulars of the Okay de Darkffe store, on the roadway of Gembloux. In the morning, shortly after the opening, a dog, obviously of a certain age, was attached to one of the rambardes in front of the supermarket. He stayed there for a long time, beyond the time it takes to do his shopping.
So, shortly before 11 a.m., customers and staff worried. Stéphanie helped take charge of the doggie. She explains: “The benevolent store team gave him a drink. A customer bought treats. He wanted nothing, he was frightened, his tail between the legs. An APEL at the microphone was passed to warn the owner, without success. One of the members of the Okay then went to the veterinarian, a few steps away, but the dog was not packed. At first glance the dog was obedient, not neglected and very kind. He was taken by the police. I had a hard time believing about abandonment, at the time.“The four -legged companion could have been” forgotten “, explained a well -informed person.
Police protocol
Without giving information on this specific case, the corps chief of the Samsom police zone, Jean-Paul Bourgeois explains the protocol set up in such situations. “”The police are competent for stray dogs, abandoned, present in a public place or on a roadway and which can constitute a danger. Without forgetting that a dog left for too long in the sun, in a car, this can be an offense with animal welfare.“
At first, the animal found is taken to the police station. “”We collaborate with the Charleroi spa. In the event that the animal is chipped and the data is visible by all, our reader is enough. If there is one chip but the information is hidden, we can call on a veterinarian or a call-center reserved for the police and based in Brussels.“Can the owner recover his dog.”Yes, with the minutes that goes with if there has been an offense. The Walloon Code of Animal Welfare provides a whole series of fines. It varies depending on the gravity but it can go up very high, several thousand euros.“
