Who is the owner of the dog?

[cupman]

Considering his side has a mountain of evidence and her side has none I think it is pretty clear whose dog it is.

The man the court hired to determine who owned the dog came back saying the dog belonged to the man.
The woman broke the law by not filing a "found report" after she found the lost animal.
The woman posted 150 pictures of her trip to Yosemite, not a single one had a picture of the dog in it. If she truly needed a dog for asthma she would have taken it for all the hiking around Yosemite.

Some people just have no shame.

 

[hemet dennis]

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.

The heck you say ? A story on the internet one sided ?

 

[oesdog]

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.

I count myself extremely lucky that I can have dogs at all. The cat really upsets me a lot because I can't have him too near me. He's been here for over 13yrs now so I think I am biulding a tollerance by this stage! My daughter also has Asthma that is why she has a Jack-a-doodle. Jack russtle x poodle. Because his hair is Woolly and thats why I had the Old english because although he had a lot of fur it was woolly and didn;t float but went in woolly balls on the ground.
Like you having had experience with Asthma in the family I don;t see how that type of Dog could aid her health in anyway. In my opinion it would only make her worse? I don;t think I ever heard of a dog for asthma???? - They are usually used for early detection of epilepsy.
Oes

 

[onedoodle3]

I really don't see how the dog would help with the asthma. Maybe he holds her inhaler?

 

[dainerra]

There are many ways. He could detect the minor body changes that go along with her asthma to let her know that an attack is coming. He can be trained to bring her an inhaler when an attack starts. If she has very severe attacks, he could know how to summon 911. The list goes on and on.

Of course, to legally claim the right to a service dog, you have to be LEGALLY disabled under the law. If her asthma is controlled enough that she is taking hiking trips, that's pretty unlikely.

 

[redhen]

I hope he gets the dog back..
She should have filed found dog reports..

 

[sourland]

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.

Absolutely!

 

[Stse586]

While I say the dog is his, it is the unfortunate truth that who has the dog can be legally considered the owner. I have heard a number of stories where people find their pets after a peroid of time, and they don't get them back in court. The only way they any animal is considered permantently and legally mine is through a permament ID, like a microchip. So I microchip all of my pets. It is definitely worth paying $15 for a HomeAgain kit online. It is depressing to think someone could come over to my house, steal my dog, I get to watch it live across the street, and not get it back if someone wanted to be like that.

 

[oesdog]

I am not entirely convinced that Microchipping actually works that well.
I always get my dogs Microcipped too but I have yet to see any Vet I have ever been to actually use it to check that I am the legal owner of my dog. I have even been able to get my dogs spayed and nurtered without any evidence whatsoever that the animal is actually mine through a simple scan. If no one is prepared to scan the animals the chips are basically useless. When we took Gizmo to get chipped recently we had to beg the Vet to check again to see if there was a microchip in him from someone else that could have migrated. I find that quite sad. The Vet actually asked us if we really wanted to do that? Before putting our own in. Weve had Gizzy 3 yrs so I doubt if anyone will come for him now. It was last chance but we still asked because we always regarded him as "foster dog!" I guess we dreamed one day his mum and dad would come get him. But we are Mum and dad now. I think it should be manditory that ALL vets check MICROCHIPS and do not work on any animal ( Unless life threatening ) Before they are able to determin who is the rightful owner and licencee of the animal.

oes

 

[Matthew3590]

I am not entirely convinced that Microchipping actually works that well.
I always get my dogs Microcipped too but I have yet to see any Vet I have ever been to actually use it to check that I am the legal owner of my dog. I have even been able to get my dogs spayed and nurtered without any evidence whatsoever that the animal is actually mine through a simple scan. If no one is prepared to scan the animals the chips are basically useless. When we took Gizmo to get chipped recently we had to beg the Vet to check again to see if there was a microchip in him from someone else that could have migrated. I find that quite sad. The Vet actually asked us if we really wanted to do that? Before putting our own in. Weve had Gizzy 3 yrs so I doubt if anyone will come for him now. It was last chance but we still asked because we always regarded him as "foster dog!" I guess we dreamed one day his mum and dad would come get him. But we are Mum and dad now. I think it should be manditory that ALL vets check MICROCHIPS and do not work on any animal ( Unless life threatening ) Before they are able to determin who is the rightful owner and licencee of the animal.

oes

What if people do not want to get their dogs microchiped? Collar with tags is good enough.