I FEEL I must write and express my disgust at the comments of D Whittabon. This man should be ashamed of himself for making such callous comments about a poor defenceless dog, who through no fault of his own ended up abandoned. He should also spare a thought for owner of Second Chance who paid to give this poor dog a better quality of use.

I work with a wonderful lady who has adopted dogs from this wonderful charity, her most recent dog being a Yorkshire terrier called Thomas, who just like Patrick was left to fend for himself.

This lady gives up her holidays, weekends and even Christmas to help the dogs and Rose and for as long as I have known her I have never ever seen her go away anywhere. This small minded man should crawl back under the stone he came from.

JO, Southampton.