To be fair it does say 'ordered' to be put to death it doesnt say they actually were

Exactly

You read a title and read the article then you get the full story. Dont read the article and you are unlikely to know the full facts of anything. The article makes it very clear what happened.

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Unfortunately Alison a lot of people only read the headlines and don't read the article. Anyone reading your title as a headline without reading the article is automatically led to believe that dogs have actually been put to death, as has been proved by the responses it has had from posters on this site. That is why it is wrong; that is why it is journalism at its worst. I'd much prefer you to post the truth rather than resorting to sensationalism.

But they weren't ordered to be put to death so it's a blatent lie.

They had a court order stating the dogs are to be pts. They werent PTS because the legal rep put a stop to it. Had it been left theres a good chance the dogs would have been destroyed.

The title is not wrong, if people chose not to read it all then thats where the error lies imho Either or, the situation is still an awful position for owners to be in .

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No, you have to take responsibility for your actions. Because of your misleading headline you have made people think that dogs have been killed. I was going to add that that is where the error lies, but I suspect that it was done purposely and so is no error.

Now I will agree wholeheartedly with you here. This is the whole point, a point which has sadly been hidden by your misleading headline. Did you think that something more accurate like "Clerical error leaves owners worrying all weekend that innocent pets had been sentenced to death" wasn't as sensationalist as the one you did write?

Regardless of the main story being true to the title or not, the article 'covers its back' in one of the closing paragraphs...

So weather you believe the title is wrong because all the initially mentioned dogs were not ordered to be put to sleep / saved from being put to sleep. Oscar, a dog, was ordered to be pts due to clerical error.

Anyone who feels they were mislead by the title as no Notting Hill Carnival dogs were pts or ordered to be pts can rest assured that dogs did die due to clerical error.

And yes it is a crying shame. If i was in charge, guess who would be carrying out the destruction of the dog and the personal notifications to the owners

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