More found dog saga **Updated post 45 and 57**

[LA~Poulet]

The MAJOR reason I wouldn't scan for a chip is this; you take a dog somewhere to get it scanned and they are obligated to call the owner.

Are you serious? That is bad why? If you've already made the decision to keep the dog, why have it scanned, just to 'know' for your own personal sake??? If you are looking for the owner, isn't calling them sort of the point in checking for a chip? I hope you are only talking about in this one instance. People who love and care for their pets very well DO occasionally lose one, sometimes even at the fault of other caregivers, or someone random leaving a gate open. I truly hope you rethink your stance-unless you are out to ''adopt'' every dog you come across.​

 

[SpringChickens]

LA~Poulet :

The MAJOR reason I wouldn't scan for a chip is this; you take a dog somewhere to get it scanned and they are obligated to call the owner.

Are you serious? That is bad why? If you've already made the decision to keep the dog, why have it scanned, just to 'know' for your own personal sake??? If you are looking for the owner, isn't calling them sort of the point in checking for a chip? I hope you are only talking about in this one instance. People who love and care for their pets very well DO occasionally lose one, sometimes even at the fault of other caregivers, or someone random leaving a gate open. I truly hope you rethink your stance-unless you are out to ''adopt'' every dog you come across.​

Here's why I am taking the stance that I am. (And, truthfully, as much as I would like to think I will never get another lost dog scanned, I'm sure that I will).

People who truly miss their dog will look for them. Point blank. If I put ads in the major places people look for their dog, they WILL find them. If they put ads in the major places people lose dogs, I WILL find them.

The reason I would like to be able to scan a microchip and know where the owner lives before I call them is this; if the owner lives far away, in another town, they will have a lot less access to the normal routes of finding a lost dog, especially if they don't know what town the dog is in. I would be thrilled to call someone who lived 30 minutes away, but I am less than impressed with someone who lives 1 mile away.

If anyone can come up with a scenario where the owner TRULY looked for their dog, but couldn't find me or allow me to find them, I would be interested to hear it.​

 

[LA~Poulet]

Situation that was really close to home:

Our cat was lost a couple months ago, he got out when a babysitter was here one evening and he wasn't around when we got home. I put up posters all over town, of which most got pulled down within hours. I did this multiple times. Our local paper only runs once a week, most of the community doesn't get it. I posted ads on CL *just in case* even though again, most of the community doesn't use CL. We walked door to door and asked everyone in the neighborhood we met to please let us know.

I think he may have been picked up and kept (really can't figure out why someone would take down our 'Lost reward' posters with his picture otherwise).

Our local animal catcher immediately kills every cat he finds (major humane violation, he's old and has done it for decades, on the books he 'doesn't collect cats' and when you confront the town that is the only reply you can get, long story short no one will listen to stop him). I pestered him with calls daily only to be repeatedly told he doesn't get cats (he does, and kills them. He has a lawsuit against him right now for putting down a border collie the day he picked it up but it isn't going anywhere

)

So animal control is no help, no one reads the paper, door to door and lost posters were to no avail. No one has had him scanned for a chip-but if someone found him I surely wish they would.

 

[Ducklove334]

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I really wish you would change your mind about that because it's not your place.

her place or not, she still lurved the dog, more than the owners did, obviously.

when I was younger, I found a stray dog, she was so friendly, she was a border collie, I guess beagle or hound mix, she would go into the woodsbehind our house every day while I was at school ,coming home I found that she'd be sitting by the road infront of the house with SOMETHING dead in her mouth, wagging her tail, happy as can be,(especially when she brought that, roadkill possum back

) then at night she'd run on down the road, I assume going home to her owners.

but every morning there she'd be, wanting to play with me while I walked down the street to the bus stop. then when I got on the bus, on up towards the woods she'd go. when I came home, there she'd be there, with a dead squirrel, or rabbit or something. then at night, off she'd go again.

this went on for about a month, then one day while I was in the yard playing with her, a guy came up our drive way, and starts accusing me of coming to HIS house and STEALING his dog, he called "Tammy"..keep in mind, I was 4 YEARS OLD!. she wasn't even happy to see him, she even looked scared.

my step mother came out, told the guy point blank that the dog had been coming around BY HERSELF, and that I did not steal it, if he wanted his dog, keep it to his yard, otherwise she was going to call the shelter.

I never saw "Tammy" again, but a few months later I saw an add in the paper for a dog with her exact description for sale.

the point is, next time the dog shows up, keep it,it deserves better

 

[SpringChickens]

SHE CAME BACK!!!!!!

(Yes, I will call her owners in a few minutes to return her...

)

 

[thechickenchick]

Oh my! She loves you!

I can't tell you how excited I just got to read that! I know it is the right thing to call the owners, but.... maybe you could let her hang out for the day

Seriously though, are you going to ask again if you can keep her? Maybe you could wait and see if they come looking for her? If they really care, wouldn't they check with you first?

Sometimes it is so hard to do the right thing isn't it?

(I really want to scream, NO NO NO don't call them. This story is breaking my heart.)

 

[Ducklove334]

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Springchicken, if this dog likes you THIS much to come back AGAIN, then I'd say keep her, she wants LOVE wich you give her, dogs are pack animals.

what I would do,honestly is call the shelter and complain that the owners arn't doing their job in keeping the dog sucure.

OR, keep her and let it slid, if they ask "Oh I saw her 5 miles down the road, I think she was hit, I tryed to get her but she ran off"

another trick my step mother used when I was younger to get us to keep a beagle from it's owner who ubused it

 

[PotterWatch]

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Springchicken, if this dog likes you THIS much to come back AGAIN, then I'd say keep her, she wants LOVE wich you give her, dogs are pack animals.

what I would do,honestly is call the shelter and complain that the owners arn't doing their job in keeping the dog sucure.

OR, keep her and let it slid, if they ask "Oh I saw her 5 miles down the road, I think she was hit, I tryed to get her but she ran off"

another trick my step mother used when I was younger to get us to keep a beagle from it's owner who ubused it

The biggest issue with keeping her at this point is that you would be stealing the dog and you can get in trouble for that. You know who the dog legally belongs to and they know you are aware that the dog does have a legal owner.

 

[scarter]

The reason I would like to be able to scan a microchip and know where the owner lives before I call them is this; if the owner lives far away, in another town, they will have a lot less access to the normal routes of finding a lost dog, especially if they don't know what town the dog is in. I would be thrilled to call someone who lived 30 minutes away, but I am less than impressed with someone who lives 1 mile away.

Really? Cause I can think of places 1 mile away from me that I'd NEVER see any signs and we don't get the weekend paper anymore cause they went under this year. There is no shelter in St. Croix for me to look either.​

 

[Ducklove334]

The biggest issue with keeping her at this point is that you would be stealing the dog and you can get in trouble for that. You know who the dog legally belongs to and they know you are aware that the dog does have a legal owner.

what the owners don't know, won't hurt you LOL


I do not suggest stealing ANY animal.

but the fact alone that the dog keeps getting off it's lead/chain, or out of a fence, whatever set-up they had.

call the shelter, have them pick up the dog, if after a certain ammount of time, the owners don't claim her, she is a stray, and then Springchicken can swoop right in LOL​