GUMTREE IS NOT THE PLACE TO SELL A DOG CALLED KAI OR ANY DOG

This is my lovely dog Molly.     She is faithful and loyal as are most dogs.    So.....

Who amongst us is cruel enough to buy a dog from Gumtree?     Who amongst us is stupid enough to even look?

Well some woman from Aberdeen did.    And as the dog "just wasn't the same one photographed in the advertisement" she left the dog tied up outside Ayr Railway Station.    She did it because her daughter had to catch the last train home.    Let's just cut to the chase.   She abandoned this dog to its fate.   She didn't even have the decency to phone an animal welfare agency.   I am sure she thinks she's done nothing wrong.

Oh pleeeease!

Three people should be prosecuted by the SPCA and banned from keeping dogs for life.    We should all know that abandoning an animal is a criminal offence under the laws of this country.

This woman should be prosecuted.    The man who sold this poor unfortunate (but now fortunate) dog, called Kai to this woman, should also be prosecuted.     And the man who sold this dog originally on Gumtree, yet again, in 2013, to presumably the man who sold it to this woman who abandoned it.

This dog was also in great pain.

It seems to me that the SPCA hasn't got the guts to go for the jugular.     It seems to me pretty simple.  And it wouldn't take an investigative journalist to trace these three people.    And I think the SPCA already has according to The Daily Record who has been covering this story but have decided not to prosecute.   Why not?   Can anyone tell me?

The woman concerned a Ms. Fin Rayner, 39 (and at 39 you would think she'd be a bit more responsible) abandoned the dog which she left tied to a railing at the station, and oh, compassion she left it with all his "toys and things".    What kind of person does this?    The dog was tied up there for a very long time before someone noticed it had been abandoned.   Who notices these things?   Eventually someone does but think of the cruelty.

Would Ms. Rayner have tied up her daughter (the one with the train to catch) up to the rails whilst she perhaps went shopping?   Its a short step.

The man who dropped the dog off and drove off before dear Ms. Rayner could stop him "failed to return her calls".     Ms. Raynor has his phone number.    What is easier than tracing that?

The second man who originally advertised in Gumtree, in 2013, and it was his name and address, on Kai's micro-chip who willingly admitted he sold Kai on the website in 2013, but surpise surprise can't remember the name of the man who bought him.

All three of these people should be prosecuted without delay.

This lovely dog was also in pain because ihis eyelashes were growing into his eyes.   Everytime he blinked - which all creatures have to do - he was in pain.   To its credit the SPCA is looking after Kai and they have already operated on his eyes so he is now in discomfort after the operation but in no more pain.

The Daily Record to its credit has got a petition up (just google it) for a public vote on whether or not its right to sell a dog, or any animal for that matter, on Gumtree.     Please sign it and add your voice.    I have just sign it myself.

Whilst you are at it you could phone up the SPCA and ask them to prosecute as a public duty.

I have.