Not so helpful neighbors...

[silkydragon]

i have a friend (i dont hang out with anymore) but he would take anything not bolted down our town dosnt have a leash law but while we where at the park 1 day he found a pupy like maybe a yr old it had a color on and he just took it home with him he lives in an appartment so having a dog is a no no anyway we get home he calls his dad and i try to talk him out of it becouse alot of dogs roam the town or it could have simply got off leash in the park but he would take anything not bolted down and since he cant have a dog in his moms apartment he takes it to his dads house a few towns away he was 17 at the time so old enough to know stealing is wrong but his parents dont care so he dos anyway

 

[teach1rusl]

Okay...in their defense...just a possibility: I picked up two yellow labs that were trotting down the road on a rainy, muddy day last fall. I'd never seen them before, and debated, but then stopped and opened up the back of my RAV. They hopped right in. I took them home, let my dogs investigate them a bit, and then put them in the little apartment we have in our garage. It was obvious they'd been indoor dogs. It was the middle of a work day, and I figured they'd escaped from somewhere while the owner was at work. I had things to do, and figured whoever they'd escaped from wouldn't be able to get them until late afternoon, so other than setting out some food and water for them, I went about my business. Trust me, with two big dogs of my own, I sure didn't want anyone elses. Maybe two hours later, I phoned one number (two diff. numbers on the collars), and got nobody. I called the other one and got voicemail. The call was returned later (the guy was on vacation down south, and his mother was keeping his dog...the other was hers), and the man found someone he knew to come get them. I'm going to be "glass half full" and presume that they found your friendly dog, and maybe just wanted to enjoy him for a little while before phoning you guys. At least he was being treated well while he was "lost."

I did lose a little spaniel mix dog I'd had for 12 years several years back. I'd put ads in the paper and around the neighborhood. A week later a lady shows up with her and admitted that she'd had her for the past week, but that her daughter had loved the dog so much. I was a little ticked, but more relieved to know my dog wasn't dead and I had her back.

Glad you have both your dogs back safe and sound!

 

[silkydragon]

yea cant rly jump to conclusion the stole when dog was only missing for 2hrs we had a huskie once we bought as almost an adult dog ran away and we found it in town (we live a few miles out) knocked on the door and saide we think you have our dog the gave it back no problem but i me and my mom could see the little kids acting sad they gave it a new temp name and stuff just becouse they didnt read the tag and got old owner (we hadnt gotten our own tag in the male yet) so the old owner had no idea what they were talking about a few weeks later he ran away again went back to same ppl and we just let them keep it since they where so attached by now

 

[herefordlovinglady]

ahhh -- that's just wrong. I could understand if there was no ID, but to have everything. That was just wrong.

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

We had an adorable rat terrier show up at our house one year. We had him inside for a week. Someone came by looking for him and we said we found him. "Why didn't you return him?" "There were no tags, we didn't know of anyone around here that had them and we DID put an ad in the paper."

APPARENTLY they went on vacation.....have yet to figure out WHY they thought their poor rat terrier could survive in sub-zero temps with no care.

They chewed us up one side and down the other for keeping their dog. They took him back. The next day, he showed back up at our house. We called them to come get him. Their excuse was "Well if you keep letting him in your house he's gonna keep coming back to your house instead of staying HOME."

So...we stopped letting him in. Guess who lost their dog permanently. Since we couldn't welcome him back into the house...he ran off and found a new family.

 

[b.hromada]

So glad you found him, safe and sound! They are both beautiful! My friend's dog got out a while ago, and she never found her?

Went everwhere to find her, no luck. Maybe someone "took her in" too? She was tatooed also.

 

[Melissakins]

Few years ago in a town close to where my folks live , a family had their Newfoundland abducted from their home. The guy who did it used the Newf as a "training" dog for his pit-bulls. Once they'd attacked him and bitten him up and he'd served the guys purpose, he shot the dog to kill him and dumped him beside a road.

It is so heartbreaking to hear of stories where animals are abducted, or lost and never found again.

I'm so glad you were able to find your pups!!!!

 

[cmjust0]

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We have a dog like that now. And, yes, she "free ranges."

I know, I know...

Thing is *we* would be the people most affected by a free-ranging mutt, given that we have goats and chickens. She's afraid of the goats, and we have a LGD that watches everything anyway. She won't even go in the barnyard with him.. Plus, our nearest neighbors are over 1/4mi away, and she really doesn't go anywhere anyhow. She's "special"

....just like everyone else's "lays right there on the porch" and "wouldn't hurt a fly" mutt that wanders the roads killing everybody's animals, right?

Anyway, we picked her up off the side of the road..that's how she came to live with us. She'd been gone from wherever for quite a while...smelly, wet, wormy. In pretty rough shape. We stopped and asked some folks there if they'd ever seen her, and they hadn't. No idea where she came from. No collar, no tags, no chip -- I had the vet check. We got her UTD on everything, bathed, wormed, and have had her ever since.

Thing is, she'd get in the car with anybody and be gone in a heartbeat. She doesn't know a stranger and loves to ride in the car. I've actually seen her board visitors' cars before like "So, where are we going?" if they leave the door open too long. I've had to call her back out.. It's a little worrisome, frankly, that someone might just stop one day, call her over, and drive off with her. She'd hop right in, no doubt about it.

Guess it's a good thing that we typically get the same dozen and a half or so cars down our road everyday.

 

[MagsC]

People here have had quite a few dogs just come up "missing". I often wonder what the deal is with that.

When we lived in Atlanta, we had two little Pekingnese cross dogs. Whenever I let them out, I stayed with them. Anyway, one day my DH let them outside, only one came back.
A week later, the other one turned up. The woman next door said her boyfriend took the dog but got bored with it.

The very first thing I would do upon finding a dog is check its tags and call, if there were not tags, I would put it on a couple different lost and founds around here.
Years ago we found a dog running down the middle of the highway, looking lost. No tags, so I did as I stated above and the people got their dog back. My kids really liked the dog but that wasnt an excuse in my eyes for keeping someone elses dog!!

 

[Goat_Walker]

That would drive me mad. One thing about me is you dont threaten my animals, and you dont mess wiht my art work. Not much else can really tick me off. I swear if anyone ever tried to do that with ANY of my animals I would have had a FIT! I cant even imagine someone doing that ! Ok, so maybe I can , but seriously?!

Im glad yall got him back before those people were able to take him to the vet and make up something or get him changed to their info.