Blythman's & Partners of Gosforth, Newcastle , UK were reported in the UK national press this week for putting a Labrador to sleep, that had ran away from it's owner's garden just 2 hours earlier.   (See Telegraph and Daily Mail articles on the same). Blythman's & Partners of Gosforth killed the animal without permission.

Blythman's & Partners of Gosforth were in the press in 2011 for undertaking exactly the same practice; they killed a cat that had gone missing just hours earlier, before the owner of that cat had any opportunity to find her pet.