Who is the owner of the dog?  

It is obviously the man's dog. I am sorry for her having to spend all the money to train him as a service dog, but how does a service dog help with asthma? If god forbid someones child gets kidnapped while the kid is lost somewhere and found a year later it doesn't mean the kidnapper now has the child.

Honestly I think :

Hanson-Fleming

I will tell you why.

On a very cold and snowy Christmas eve 2008 My Dh was on his way home from work. He rounded a bend and there was a lump in the road. He put the break on and investigated. There was a pile of dry dog food in the road on a blind bend and there was a little dog. Dh lifted him up and put him into the car. Why would someone put dog food in the road on a blind bend in the middle of a snow storm? Why was this dog abandoned out there? How did it get there?

When Dh brought the little thing home we saw it was badly matted and so I set about taking off the bad coat as it was full of ice and very wet. The little fellow was a bag of bones. We got through Christmas and slowely fed him up and got him healthier. During this time we worked hard to find the "owner". We already had a dog of our own and knew what we would feel if we lost him. So when I discovered a collor on the dog with a name and a telephone number we went about tracing the owners. We put adds everywhere and left dozens of messages on the phone number from his collor. We thought -"It is Christmas maybe they went away and he got out?" So we waited and another two weeks went by. Still no one phoned us back and more worrying someone had read the messages because the massage recorder had been reset. We left messages for another three months but no one called. So we paid for Vet treatment and vaccinations. Finally three months later when the Vet said the dog was well enough he was nutured. During this time we constantly looked for the owners. We called the little dog Gizzy-Scruff-Muppet but he is usually called Gizzy. Now in 2012 he is still here. We have never given up finding his real "mum and dad!" We always refered to him as "foster dog". Just in case someone came for him. But sadly no one ever did. Last week we took him for his yearly vaccinations. The vet asked us about a microchip because this year it has become law that all dogs are chiped before licensed. We asked the Vet to check him again to see for one last time if there was any sign of a migrated micro chip anywhere in Gizzy. The Vet said you know if I find one I am legally obliged to try to trace the owners. We said that is ok please look one last time. He did there was no chip and so Gizzy now has our chip in him. He is now legally our dog.

We never gave up hope for him but now I guess we have to.

Here is Gizzy

He has had a very full and happy life here. We can only conclude that whoever put the pile of food in the road was meaning to kill him and more disturbingly probably were watching at the time. Perhaps that is why the Phone messages were ignored.

Some owners who love thie pet will do anything to get their dog back and I think that should be respected. It is so sad for a dog to lose its "family".

We have since lost out other dog who passed away on 4th July this year and so Gizzy is all the more special to us.

Oes

Seems like a bunch of lawyer nonsense to try to legitimize her taking his dog.  She won't get to keep the dog and I hope they charge her with a crime.  I hope he sues her successfully.   You have to be a selfish individual to do what she is doing.  I get that she is attached, but the dog clearly belongs to him.  To see the dog jump out of the window, rush up to his owner full of glee... and keep it anyways?  

I would have taken the dog home the day I saw it.  I wouldn't have asked.  I'm sure the guy would have too had he known.  Messing with people's pets is a good way to discover their violent side.  

Oh, it's sooo his dog, lol, and the court saw that clearly and even ruled that it's his dog, yet she defies the court's order and refuses to turn the dog over.  

Had she obeyed the law regarding found-animals and went through the required steps and it had been 180 days, then the dog would legally belong to her.  But she didn't do that, and even if she had done that the dog still would not be hers because 180 days hadn't passed when the original owner found his lost dog.  

That it's legally his dog is not a question in my mind...what I wonder is how does a 20yo college student afford thousands of dollars for dog training and then lawyers, lol.

Bigger question is how does a siberian husky help someone with asthma? They are the most shedding dogs I know.

I get that she got attached to the dog.

That is why we always refered to Gizzy as "foster dog" to remind us he was not perminant! That he did infact beling to someone else. We were just caring for him.

I too don't understand about the asthma thing. I can't go into the same room as an Alsatian because I have Asthma. I have to be extremely careful which Dogs I have about.

I can mostly only have wire haired kinds of dogs or woolly ones. Deffinately not the shedding kind like Alsatians and greyhounds.

I do hope the fellow gets his Dog back soon!!!!!!

Seems to me like the young lady is extremely selfish indeed and only looking out for her needs and not best interest of the dog.

Oes
 

We had our puppy stolen from our yard. The neighbors kids kept luring her out to play. Then one day she didnt come back. We searched EVERYWHERE and even put up signs. Few months later while near a plaza we see a girl with her. We call her name and she recognizes us immediately. We asked for the dog back but the girl never called us back. In our case we decided if the dog was happy with the new owner we should just leave it since we lost her when she was still young... but it was frustrating!!

If I lost my dogs I have now though I would fight for it back too because they are part of my family! He deserves to get his dog back!

It's the guys dog. Sorry, but my son had asthma when he was little (he's outgrown it now) and he couldn't be around any animals. I think the girl just wants the dog. The dog was obviously really happy to see his owner. She's just being selfish.

Ok....I have to add my 2 cents.

There is his side

There is her side

Then there is the truth.

So even though it is printed the story could be one sided.

You truly can never know the whole truth.

I have no opinion on who's dog it is.