Gardaí in Carlow called out to suicidal dog

At this year’s GRA conference in Killarney Garda Dan Ryan, who is stationed in Carlow, said his colleagues were recently sent to a house after someone rang in saying they thought their dog was suicidal.

The person called “believing that her dog was suffering from mental health ­problems and the dog was going to take his own life,” Garda Ryan said.

“Currently, there’s no ­triage policy with the control room,” he said. “We have to go to everything. We had to go speak with this lady. I wouldn’t say we spoke with the dog.”