Tragic Dog Killed by Firework

Claregirl

http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/tragic-dog-killed-firework-explosion-2658540

A family have been left devastated after a stray firework resulted in the death of their beloved dog and one of its pups.

Snoop the six-year old Labrador panicked when the firework exploded close to him and was strangled by his chain.

One of his six-week old pups also died in the incident in Drogheda on Wednesday.

Leona Reynolds, 34, said she and her children are distraught at the death of their family pet.

She said: “It was a freak accident but having said that there should not be fireworks in housing estates.

“My daughter said that the firework landed in the garden and he panicked. He ended up with the chain being wrapped around his neck. It was a freak accident.”

Snoop was the father of 10 puppies and their mother, Ali, a boxer another family pet.

Leona added: “The ten pups had hidden underneath the shed and one of them also got caught up (in the chain).”

The pup also died and it took Leona and her four children – Kayla, 14, Aimee, 12, Stephen, 10 and TJ, 3, an hour to coax the remaining pups out from under the shed.

Leona said: “It was a firework that did this. It is wrong to have fireworks in a housing estate. There should be a display somewhere safe.

“I do think this was accidental but it was brought on by a firework that came into my garden.

“It is just horrible and a loss for everybody. Stephen loves football and Snoop used to play football with him.”

I saw this in the paper earlier and it just made my blood boil this "poor family" suffering the loss of their "beloved pet" Seriously if it's that beloved what the fúck is it doing chained up in the garden?:mad: Whatever about the rights or wrongs of fireworks I think the owners of this dog have a case to answer the firework didn't kill the dog it was strangled on the chain that the owner placed on it:mad:

July Rain

ffs

wazky

Claregirl wrote: »

Seriously if it's that beloved what the fúck is it doing chained up in the garden?

Dead right, if you can't have a dog without it being tied up most of the day then you can't have a dog.

Howard Juneau

I think it's a disgrace....who the fck names a dog snoop?!

Muise...

Howard Juneau wrote: »

I think it's a disgrace....who the fck names a dog snoop?!

Charlie Brown

anncoates

Pets should be inside tonight.

Still very sad though, obviously.

MonkstownHoop

D O DOUBLE G

Dravokivich

Claregirl wrote: »

I saw this in the paper earlier and it just made my blood boil this "poor family" suffering the loss of their "beloved pet" Seriously if it's that beloved what the fúck is it doing chained up in the garden?:mad: Whatever about the rights or wrongs of fireworks I think the owners of this dog have a case to answer the firework didn't kill the dog it was strangled on the chain that the owner placed on it:mad:

Labradors can escape quite easily and be hard to catch up with. A mate of mine had such issues with one. It's not uncommon to chain dogs that have a tendancy to be flighty in a built up area, such as a housing estate. The fact that the chain was long enough for it to end up wrapped around his neck suggests to me that this wasn't really an issue with how they cared for it.

Maximus Alexander

It's a disgrace is what is is Joe.

kenmc

Snoop was the father of 10 puppies and their mother, Ali, a
boxer another family pet.

so he was both their father and their grandfather. ffs. probably breeding them as Xmas puppies. hope the rest of the puppies are taken away, don't deserve the privilege of keeping a pet.

wretcheddomain

Oh I thought you meant it died after listening to Katy Perry's song of the same name, certainly I could have believed it.

Stojkovic

Dogs shouldnt be tied up tonight.

Owners fault, no sympathy for them, idiots.

My dog was beside me on the couch all night.

Howard Juneau

Stojkovic wrote: »

Dogs shouldnt be tied up tonight.

Owners fault, no sympathy for them, idiots.

My dog was beside me on the couch all night.

How is your gf btw?

My name is URL

They should chain the family up and have dogs fling fireworks at them... or dogs with bees in their mouth and when they bark they shoot bees.

dgt

Those pups will grow up with their eyes facing each other

Claregirl

Dravokivich wrote: »

Labradors can escape quite easily and be hard to catch up with. A mate of mine had such issues with one. It's not uncommon to chain dogs that have a tendancy to be flighty in a built up area, such as a housing estate. The fact that the chain was long enough for it to end up wrapped around his neck suggests to me that this wasn't really an issue with how they cared for it.

There are no circumstances to my mind where a dog should be chained up.

I've always had a dog and never resorted to that it would be like chaining one of my kids up. If you cannot contain your pet securely without resorting to a chain within your garden or keep them inside your home you shouldn't have one.

Kovu

I don't think that the article meant he was the father of the pups mother. It says she is a boxer and he is a labrador. Seems more like a typo to me, possibly meaning to say 'with Ali' not 'and of Ali'.

daRobot

Dumb inbread fu*ks. Dogs have a tough enough time indoors now, let alone outside tonight. Pups outside too? Jesus fcuking christ.....

moc moc a moc

Dravokivich wrote: »

Labradors can escape quite easily and be hard to catch up with. A mate of mine had such issues with one. It's not uncommon to chain dogs that have a tendancy to be flighty in a built up area, such as a housing estate

The point is that the dog shouldn't have been left outside on Hallowe'en night when fireworks are known to be let off.

KKkitty

We were very lucky this year with not one firework or banger going off but on a night like tonight pets should be kept indoors if anyone is letting off them things. To chain a dog is the dumbest thing to do. His so called owners should be ashamed.

Stojkovic

Howard Juneau wrote: »

How is your gf btw?

She wasnt happy being stuck out in the kennel !

Red Nissan

The moral of the story is twofold, don't chain up your pets and don't ban fireworks, it only leads to illegal firework smuggling which increases the risk of misfires and strays.

Gatling

Soooooooo who gets the blame this time

Nidge or the luas

AAN

It said in the article that education can prevent this type of incident from occuring again but it's not as if education can compensate for a lack of common sense. This family didn't seem to have the latter.

Vito Corleone

Those pups will have to grow up without their father now.

creep

A chain should only be put on a dog supervised. I put a chain on mine and leave him around the garden and play around him. A dog chained up unsupervised is only asking for trouble. Any dog should be left inside as well on halloween night. No sympathy for the owners only for the dog

meoklmrk91

TBF it wasn't the firework(as much as I hate them) that killed this dog, I have heard several stories of dogs being strangled whilst tied up, no one should ever leave a dog tied up unsupervised, it's asking for trouble, what a horrible death. Also if there is anytime of year that you should bring your pets in its Halloween, my dog does pretty well with them, he doesn't panic, but I spent all evening at home with him to make sure that he was safe indoors and he wasn't panicking.

Tigger

I love dogs
I have two at the moment and have shared my life with dogs
The most importa t thing when chaining a dog is to make sure thre is no way it can hang itself


I don't agree with chaining but if it's happening it should be safe

It's also important to take them in during Halloween and thunderstorms
Bangers happen . Good dog owners would not be affected by "fireworks".

Amirani

AAN wrote: »

It said in the article that education can prevent this type of incident from occuring again but it's not as if education can compensate for a lack of common sense. This family didn't seem to have the latter.

There's generally quite a strong correlation with being educated and not being ****ing retarded though.

syklops

The deceased was chained up outside in a housing estate on Hallowe'en night. That alone is bad enough but the 10 pups were outside as well?

Im hoping/assuming the ISPCA will be paying them a visit tomorrow.

awec

Stojkovic wrote: »

Dogs shouldnt be tied up tonight.

Owners fault, no sympathy for them, idiots.

My dog was beside me on the couch all night.

No sympathy?

Their dog just died.

Have a shred of decency for fcuk sake. No matter what you think of the chain, if you can't sympathise with someone who lost their dog in such circumstances then there's something wrong there.

Evelyn Cusack

Dogs are lovely

Evelyn Cusack

Claregirl wrote: »

There are no circumstances to my mind where a dog should be chained up.

I've always had a dog and never resorted to that it would be like chaining one of my kids up. If you cannot contain your pet securely without resorting to a chain within your garden or keep them inside your home you shouldn't have one.

Not in a rural enviroment petal, they can chase sheep and quite rightly are shot

wandatowell

Gatling wrote: »

Soooooooo who gets the blame this time

Nidge or the luas

Neither, its the single mothers!

syklops

Evelyn Cusack wrote: »

Not in a rural enviroment petal, they can chase sheep and quite rightly are shot

The poster you quoted is claregirl, so clearly she is a city girl.

up for anything

Don't people read properly anymore? So many berating the owner for leaving them out on Halloween night when it actually happened on Wednesday according to the article.

Roose

Howard Juneau wrote: »

I think it's a disgrace....who the fck names a dog snoop?!

Didn't get the thanks that you so desperately crave for that did you? Oh well.

Red Nissan

up for anything wrote: »

Don't people read properly anymore? So many berating the owner for leaving them out on Halloween night when it actually happened on Wednesday according to the article.

That is just being pedantic. Halloween Night was technically last night. As with all things we do in Ireland, anything good, we make a Festival out of it and it lasts a weeks now.

A local shopping center, a big one, is having their Halloween Parade this coming Saturday at two O'Clock. :pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac:

meoklmrk91

up for anything wrote: »

Don't people read properly anymore? So many berating the owner for leaving them out on Halloween night when it actually happened on Wednesday according to the article.

I think when most people say Halloween they mean at the very least the week preceding Halloween night, thats what I meant anyway, there have been kids leaving bangers off all week, therefore my dog was indoors, out of harms way.

syklops

up for anything wrote: »

Don't people read properly anymore? So many berating the owner for leaving them out on Halloween night when it actually happened on Wednesday according to the article.

Its been like Beirut for the past week in my estate and I live in a very quiet estate filled with old people.

Claregirl

Evelyn Cusack wrote: »

Not in a rural enviroment petal, they can chase sheep and quite rightly are shot

As I said earlier if you cannot contain your pet securely without resorting to a chain within your garden or keep them inside your home you shouldn't have one.

I'm pretty sure people have access to fencing, dog runs etc even in a rural environment.

up for anything wrote: »

Don't people read properly anymore? So many berating the owner for leaving them out on Halloween night when it actually happened on Wednesday according to the article.

I haven't berated the owner for leaving them out on Halloween night but I will berate them for leaving defenceless animals outside chained up at a time when bangers and fireworks are going off.

shuffles88

You don't know the full set of circumstances it may have been necessary for the dog to be tied up sometimes, have some compassion for the kids who witnessed this horrible thing happening. Seeing as they're all so young and the dog was 6 they probably don't remember a time when they hadn't got Snoop in their lives.

mosi

I can't believe people are defending the use of a chain. Decent fencing should keep a dog in. If your boundary is not secure, then make it secure. Chaining is dangerous and also psychologically damaging for dogs.
Aside from the use of the chain, there are so many other issues here. Firstly, that the dogs were kept outside, terrified, during this time of year. Secondly, that 6 week old pups were kept outside, full stop. Thirdly, that these people had allowed their dogs to breed, rather than having them neutered and spayed.
It was an awful thing to happen, a horrible death for the dogs and terrifying for the survivors. I wish that proper enforcement would come in regarding fireworks, with a zero tolerance attitude. One of my dogs was really stressed for a while tonight because of the damn things. However, she had her Thundershirt and rescue remedy, and all three dogs were safely inside tonight as they are every night.

syklops

shuffles88 wrote: »

have some compassion for the kids who witnessed this horrible thing happening. Seeing as they're all so young and the dog was 6 they probably don't remember a time when they hadn't got Snoop in their lives.

You are right. Personally, I do feel for the kids.

However,

You don't know the full set of circumstances it may have been necessary for the dog to be tied up sometimes,

True, however, the article said that one of the pups died in the same incident. So if, for whatever reason, Snoop had to be chained up outside when there are fireworks everywhere, ok, but why were the pups near him?

MadsL

Evelyn Cusack wrote: »

Not in a rural enviroment petal, they can chase sheep and quite rightly are shot

I live in a very rural environment, known as the Horse Capital of New Mexico: Out county just passed an ordinance banning chaining dogs -most owners build dog runs to keep the dogs in and the coyotes out.

Claregirl

shuffles88 wrote: »

You don't know the full set of circumstances it may have been necessary for the dog to be tied up sometimes, have some compassion for the kids who witnessed this horrible thing happening. Seeing as they're all so young and the dog was 6 they probably don't remember a time when they hadn't got Snoop in their lives.

Obviously I don't know the full set of circumstances I can only go on what was reported in the news paper and assume this was accurate.

1) Dog chained up outside
2) Fireworks / Bangers going off for some period of time in the area.
3) 10 puppies left outside

I have nothing but compassion for the kids who witnessed this. It's a truly awful experience to loose a pet and particularly to witness it. Where have I not shown compassion for the kids??????

If it were not for the careless, irresponsible, cruel actions of the parent/supervising adult they would not have been traumatised in this manner!

The whole tone of the article related to the fireworks and how tragic it was for those involved and I'm not denying that it is a very tragic story but lets face it fireworks or not Snoop and the puppy would not have died if the dog had not been chained up - they were strangled by the chain

Femme_Fatale

mosi wrote: »

I can't believe people are defending the use of a chain.

I don't think they are. Just taking into consideration that there might have been a practical reason for it. I'd never attach a chain to a dog.

Dyr

Claregirl wrote: »

Obviously I don't know the full set of circumstances I can only go on what was reported in the news paper and assume this was accurate.

1) Dog chained up outside
2) Fireworks / Bangers going off for some period of time in the area.
3) 10 puppies left outside

I have nothing but compassion for the kids who witnessed this. It's a truly awful experience to loose a pet and particularly to witness it. Where have I not shown compassion for the kids??????

If it were not for the careless, irresponsible, cruel actions of the parent/supervising adult they would not have been traumatised in this manner!

The whole tone of the article related to the fireworks and how tragic it was for those involved and I'm not denying that it is a very tragic story but lets face it fireworks or not Snoop and the puppy would not have died if the dog had not been chained up - they were strangled by the chain

not to mention the owner having the rely on a kids account becasue they sure as f**k were'nt keeping an eye on the dogs.

mosi

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

I don't think they are. Just taking into consideration that there might have been a practical reason for it. I'd never attach a chain to a dog.

I would equate considering a practical use for a chain as defending its use. I really can't see where there would be a practical use for chaining a dog in a backyard. If a dog is an escape artist, improve the boundary or keep him inside. Whatever the reasons people may give for chaining, there are always more humane and safer alternatives.

zenno

Definitely a very bad idea having the dog chained in the garden as they do get extremely agitated with the bangers. The owner of these dogs should have had the basic knowledge to bring them in to the house for the night.

My own rescue dog earlier tonight was running all over the house trying to find a way to hide from the bangers and decided to jump into the bath to hide from the noise. All I could do was shut all windows and wait till the kids and yes adults finished playing with their little bangers for the dog to leave the bath.

Dogs hearing is so good it sounds like an atom bomb going off with each close-range banger, no wonder they try to run as far away as they can.

AlanS181824

Awh...that's so sad. Rip poor Doggie