Suicidal dog!

What should have started as a lovely quiet walk to start the Easter Holidays turned into a bit of a nightmare. You know when you go for a walk and this stupid animal starts following you. Normally they just turn back after a while. Well, not this one. This stupid, stupid dog just keeps following us but keeps crossing the road, standing still in the middle of the road with cars approaching at 40mph. Shouting at him didn't help a single bit and surely it just had to happen that it got hit. There's nothing we could do. About five, six cars were able to avoid it but the last taxi car couldn't. An awful scream and hound followed and the stupid dog came back onto the pavement, limping like mad. He couldn't put down his front leg anymore so we don't know whether it's just badly bruised or broken.

Ringing the local coppers, emergency services or directory inquiries to no avail. 'We don't have something like an animal ambulance service in Ireland, would you like the number of a vet?'. So yeah, when the dog had limped into a side road the taxi driver went off to the local Garda station to report the situation. The dog? Don't know, hopefully it will be okay, it was limping alright, so I'd say it'll survive. There was no dog collar with a number or anything. The taxi driver has our number as we witnessed the entire ordeal. We'll see what happens.