Sheltie That Was Mistakenly Adopted By Another Family

[danisgoat]

I Perhaps a child fell in love with her.

It could be explained to a child.

The parent could say, what if you got lost and a nice family found you and loved you and wanted a child just like you. And they decided it was better to keep you because their daughter was so excited to have a sister and they didn't want to upset their daughter by giving you back to your parents.

Kids are very easily influenced. The parents just didn't want to give the dog back at first for whatever reason.

Good news is, they caved in and gave the girl back.

 

[Bailey's Mom]

what gets me is story after story about HOW dogs are handled by shelters and rescues. WHY would they take them immediately an hr away, this is like they KNOW people will search in their areas, but they don't want them reunited with their owners. And I think many times people are helping themselves to these pets, the pets aren't always escaping as said. Something smells rotten. And yes, what a ROTTEN scenario for the adopting family. They want to do right by going to a rescue place. But it seems that rescues aren't really rescuing. Isn't that what Penny did with Piper. She had NO right to treat a dog as poorly as she did, in the name of "rescue". And yet she is causing an owner who PROVED over and over her ownership, to fight endless ridiculous expensive court battles. And microchipping proved USELESS in that scenario, because they have the ability to change chip info. I don't know what the answer is, but it makes me MAD that basically the dogs suffer.

How do you protect your pet from awful people doing wrong things

I've been away for a while and saw this and thought I should comment. Shelties don't tend to do well in traditional "lock up" rescues where they are penned and kept held. When breed rescues find out about them being held, and when it works right, local shelters do contact the people who are most likely to find the dogs good homes, these rescues do pull them and foster them in home situations where they do tend to do better. This isn't just the case with Shelties, but other breeds as well. Having people that know the breed helps finding forever homes for the dogs more likely. If you understand what environment Shelties or other breeds thrive in or don't do well in, you have a better chance of finding a good match.

Why are they so far away, well honestly there are only so many people involved with breed rescue. In my area there is one Sheltie rescue that covers three states. There are two others in the region. They have foster homes spread out across the area. Dogs can be placed a distance away or close to where the dog originally came from depending on the applications that come in for the dogs.

I do think it is important for all shelters and rescues to do due diligence in trying to find a dog's owner. However, it costs money and often the focus is on keeping the dogs fed, housed, and medically cared for so they have a shot at a new home. Sadly, there are far fewer stories where the owners are looking for the dog, than the ones like this where the dog has been misplaced.

I don't know the details of this case, but it had to be heart breaking on both sides to discover the mistake had been made.

 

[SheepOfBlue]

If I got my guy back I would consider a puppy for the family. My guys are irreplaceable, the one time Spitfire got away I was planning how I was going to look all night in the swamp for him. Thankfully we caught him at the cost of getting tore up by brambles and him being more worried than normal for the rest of the weekend.