An angry note was left by someone who saw Drake in the car on his own. Photo / news.com.au
An angry note was left by someone who saw Drake in the car on his own. Photo / news.com.au
An angry letter has left a Canberra local rattled after she found it attached to her car windscreen on her return from a five-minute trip to the supermarket.
Haley Austine returned to a nasty note telling her she didn't deserve her dog, Drake, who she left in the car whileshe ducked into Westfield Belconnen mall for baby formula.
"I have reported you for leaving the dog unattended inside the car. I also have pictures. You do not deserve a good dog like this," the handwritten letter, planted on Thursday morning, read.
What it's author didn't know however, was that Drake suffers from a combination of serious medical conditions that makes it unsafe for him to be left alone longer than 20 minutes.
The 4-year-old American staffordshire terrier, who Austine rescued in April, lives with severe anxiety and seizures, which she said were impossible to predict.
Being a special needs dog, Austine said Drake required full-time supervision.
"Drake doesn't leave my side nor am I game enough to test the theory, he is such a beautiful natured very stubborn boy who wouldn't hurt a fly, he just needs another chance at life," she said.
While she appreciated the letter's author was hoping to help Drake, she wished they had gone about the situation differently.
"I just wish you had a conversation with me to get to know him and the situation before judging me so bad," she said.
"I don't want to leave my house again."
Austine was midway through having Drake registered as a support animal, but said anxiety-triggered bowel accidents had made the process difficult.
