Last Sunday afternoon (29th January) my daughter was at Watson Shops. Her little white whippet-cross broke free while my daughter was inside the supermarket and ran out onto the road where she was struck by a car. The driver didn’t stop (boo!).
A witness from the adjacent flats told us he saw the incident. DeeDee subsequently ran off somewhere and went to ground, as hurt dogs often do. A sizeable search party was amassed and we spent several hours combing the streets of Watson, but to no avail.
Have you seen her? She was wearing a brown leather collar and has a few marks on her forehead from a persistent skin complaint – she’s a homely little creature but well-loved. She is micro-chipped (but doesn’t have tags). If you have any information, please let us know by posting below, or by calling 6241 7149.
Thanks riotacters.
PS. DeeDee was in no way involved in the fracas near the tent embassy last Thursday. She is not a dodgy builder and she doesn’t own a Holden Calais nor live in Charnwood.
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Gobbo said :
This section wasn’t intended to apply to road kill, and I would love to know if anybody has suffered the extreme misfortune of coming across a public prosecutor malicious enough to have used it against them in this way?
“Her little white whippet-cross broke free while my daughter was inside the supermarket and ran out onto the road where she was struck by a car. ”
Glad you found DeeDee. Just curious about the actual reason for her running away.
Was DeeDee in a leash? Was she ever trained to stay and wait? It seems to me that she needs to learn the basics and bond better with your daughter to avoid running away in the future. It is all about connecting owners with dogs and building this trust through constant day to day training.
Gobbo said :
Thanks for that Gobbo, I’ll bear that in mind if I ever accidentally run over a snake…
Sandman said :
If you’re driving in a carpark and you don’t notice the dog you hit running around in circles in pain near your car, I question your level of concentration and awareness of what goes on around you.
I once had a young guy drive over my dog when she jumped off the back of a stationary ute. Obviously he was not at fault because the dog did jump right in front of his car and he was not driving fast at all. But the fact that he did not notice a big dog ready to jump off this ute parked on a narrow street did not at all give me confidence in his defensive driving abilities.
This isn’t about the law or about who’s at fault. But if I could choose who I would rather share the road with, the person who was oblivious to the fact that they hit a dog (or was about to hit it), the person who did notice but didn’t bother stopping or the person who was aware they hit an animal and got out to assist, I know who I would choose.
Who’s to say if the driver even knew they hit something? If you’ve got the radio turned up, the animal hits the wheel, how would you know if a small dog has bounced off your plastic flexible bumper? Hitting things at low speed (which I assume most would be doing past the Watson shops) would feel like a small pothole if anything to most people.
Pork Hunt said :
Not a road rule, but an animal welfare rule.
Section 10 of the Animal Welfare Act 1992 states the following:
downindowner said :
It is the law though – if your dog is not under control and causes damage to someone’s car, you are up for the costs.