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Dad blasts Taunton taxi firm for refusing to pick up him and dead dog




A PENSIONER says he was left heartbroken when a taxi firm refused to take him to bury his dog.

Donald Budge says A1 Ace Taxi Services wouldn’t let him and his dog, Puppy, which had just been put down by a vet, in one of its cars.

Mr Budge, 69, of Creechbarrow Road in Taunton, was trying to take the little Jack Russell to his daughter’s house at West Buckland to bury her.

He said: “I can’t believe what happened – it’s not right. She was only a little dog and she was wrapped up. The whole thing broke my heart.

“It’s the worst thing in the world losing a pet, and this made it worse.”

Mr Budge claims the driver turned up at his house and refused to take him to his daughter’s home, leaving him to rely on a favour from a friend later in the evening.

“The driver turned up and said ‘I’m not taking that,'” Mr Budge said.

“They ought to be ashamed of themselves with some of the people they take in their cars.

“They pick up drunken people and all sorts, but won’t take me and my dog.

“I got there in the end. My friend had to drop me off, but it was about 1½ hours later, and he couldn’t believe it either.”

Mike Davis, a director at A1 Ace Taxi Services, said the driver was within his rights to refuse the fare.

He said: “Under Hackney Carriage conditions we’re not obliged to take animals alive or dead.

“We rely on customers telling us if they have pets, and Mr Budge did not inform us on the phone.

“The next job could have been to a supermarket and we have to consider whether this would have been reasonable.

“We have to consider other customers, which is what we did in this case.”

source: http://www.somersetcountygazette.co.uk/ ... _dead_dog/

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i wonder what health an safe wood make of it

It's one thing ferrying Live animals but another ferrying dead animals, surely the VET or the RSPCA should have overseen the safe disposal of dead dog and it's resultant burial or whatever..

I feel sorry for the Dogs owner but the whole Idea of Taxiing or PH'ing is to transport the Living.

That said, Id probably have taken the poor wee thing, it was probably less harmful to the vehicle dead as it was when it was alive and ill..

I'd have to wonder how the driver even knew it was a dead dog?

In a box or well wrapped up in a bag, you wouldn't know what it was unless the passenger told you.

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Maybe the Smell gave the game away

Just stick it in the boot.

Or tie it to the back bumper.

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Our byelaws state you must inform the LA within 24 hours of transporting a corpse (or words to that effect). Does it apply only to humans or any dead animal ?

And I'm betting that if you do inform the LA they'll take the vehicle off the road until its been de-contaminated/fumigated/disinfected at an authorised place and inspected by environmental health to their satisfaction

Having been picked up at the vet where the animal was put down, I'd guess the poor thing wouldn't even be stiff yet, never mind smelly.

TBH I'm wondering if he was carrying it "as is" ?

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Many years ago one of the local kid's dog was flattened by a brewery lorry whilst he had it on the lead, he was in such a state of shock that he dragged its mangled carcass behind him still on the lead all the way home, folk just looked on and said nowt.

I find gaffa tape works a treat.

Or Duck tape if it was a Gundog.

heartless bassas. he shold have been told to hang it out the window. let it enjoy it's last car journey in the time honoured way.

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you''ll end up with a stiff pecker...

A dead jack russel all wraped up..hum would the same driver not pick up Mrs Smith with her weekly shopping with part of a dead cow or pig in her bag. proberly the same wieght and been dead hell of a lot longer.