It's horrible isn't it We took in a year old golden retriever from the rspca for a week. They told us he'd had a few homes already but it was the first time they'd had him. They said he'd been tied up for six weeks before they got him because he jumped fences - that's not a problem here. Turns out though, he doesn't even consider jumping, he digs. Every day we had him he escaped multiple times a day, he terrorised the sheep over the road, got onto the highway and on the last day, killed the neighbours chicken.

We have a huge bit of land and can't re-do all our fences so that he can't dig under. He was not at all interested in staying near us or our other dog after the second day, he was consumed with needing to dig or escape. Our only option would have been to tie him up and we couldn't do that to him, so we took him back. DD was devastated and it was the hardest thing to see him being led away I do think though, that there are situations where surrendering a pet is better for them than keeping them