Upset after Otto death
Friday 15th January 2010, 11:30AM GMT.
Peter Jones, from Reabrook, Shrewsbury with his Daschund Otto
Vandals defaced a copy of a newspaper and pushed it through the letter-box of a grieving Shropshire couple who owned Otto, the world’s oldest dog, on the day he died.
Peter Jones, from Reabrook in Shrewsbury, said he was angry when he sawthat the photograph of him and his dog on the front of yesterday’s Shropshire Star had been littered with obscenities.
Mr Jones has reported the incident to police.
He and his wife, Lynn, decided to have Otto put down after he was diagnosed with stomach cancer.
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Hope they find who it was.
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You really do wonder at some people’s intelligence, don’t you?
Utter morons.
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I’m sorry to hear about your loss, just proves what the world is like if ‘sad’ people who have nothing in there lifes but litter obscenities and post them to you which have upset you, well my message is to them ‘GET A LIFE SAD PEOPLE!’
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There are some sad, sick, people out there! They don’t understand the bond that develops between a dog and his owners, perhaps because they are incapable of such feelings themselves. What pleasure do they get out of this kind of behaviour? They must be really screwed up.
My heart goes out to the Jones family.
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Have they not anything else and anyone else to worry about, senseless, heartless, get a life.
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My friend was only saying to me this morning what a nice person Otto’s owner is and how he always brings treats for her dogs when delivering.
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doe’s not surprise me I remember working on that estate 20 years ago and the equipment we used was a little loud anyway it was for 5 minutes at the end of a long day and the owner of the property wanted the job finished before he went on holiday it was 7-45pm granted, but summer time . A group of rough neck neighbors came out screaming obscenities etc and i remember thinking we have some right yobos around here and it seems nothing has changed I remember the owner saying he had to put up with loud music and barbis until 2 am in the summer .
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i am sorry to hear of your loss, i have two dogs myself and it would brake my heart, they are part of the family, he well not forget you and had a lovely home.
hope they found who did it
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So Sorry to hear about Otto , it is very hard to have a loved pet put down but we all know there is no choice when suffering , you have been very brave and done the very best for him x
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Jeepers,
There is no wondering about the level of intelligence – the very act suggest they have none!
I am very sorry for you loss Mr. & Mrs. Jones – Otto sounds like he was a lovely loving dog – wish I could have met him
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