When Rescue Goes Wrong

It is crazy. Milo is chipped, he came to us that way and the new girl will get chipped as well. I need to double check on if Milo's chip is a lifetime one or I need to update it. I'll do that when I get home next week.

His breeder did have a clause in the sale contract that if we could not keep him he would revert to her, but what happens if the breeder goes out of business or passes away. Then what?

Or if you attempt to communicate with him/her and get no response? I sent Milo's breeder an updated picture of him with my grand daughter several months ago and never got a response. I know she is still into dogs as her web-site is still live.
 
Remember the days when you could leave your dog in the yard while you were at work? Go out in the front yard off leash or on a long tie while you gardened or washed the car etc? Remember the days of walking on a collar and walking around the neighborhood or a park with no fear of attack, poisoning, etc? God, remember the days of tying a dog to a post while you ran in for coffee? Remember that one dog in the neighborhood who would wander down the street and everyone would take him/her home and knock on the door and return him/her to the neighbor with warning to come clean up the mess the dog left?

I remember tying up my dog outside my RV and going off to watch my husband fly his planes. Really? I tied my Quasar up outside our RV? Shudder. He and Hol stayed in the backyard while we both were at work. We didn't even have a padlock on that gate! We left the dogs home alone for hours while we were at band gigs, loose, just in the house, right there in the city or up here in the boondocks. We used to walk the canals behind the neighborhoods on nothing but a collar (later harness) and leash. Other people jogged with their on or off-leas dogs. No problems, no worry. Wow. No way. Not today.

Granted, our kids also rode bikes and played in the neighborhood without supervision til dark and that isn't exactly happening now.

I hope this thread makes us all evaluate our dog ownership a bit and change things that may need addressing.

I hope Piper is home! Any update?
 
I will try! I am on and off facebook throughout the day, so hopefully if somebody else sees something before I do, they'll post! I think we're all watching and waiting... semi-patiently. The latest update has me really optimistic Piper will be returned very soon!
 
Jess041 said:
I will try! I am on and off facebook throughout the day, so hopefully if somebody else sees something before I do, they'll post! I think we're all watching and waiting... semi-patiently. The latest update has me really optimistic Piper will be returned very soon!
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Me too - on and off FB.
 
The court has given her 5 days to produce Piper though, or she has to pay a $10,000 bond to keep her and the court case will continue, according to the filings. She was served the papers by court officials. Let's hope and pray the end is in sight and Piper is home soon.
 
I am so upset to hear this. Why is this person hanging on to this dog even after the courts decided?

This is beyond this one dog, stories like this, or Indy from the Riverside 61, or that young solider whose GSD got lost and adopted while he was deployed and he is begging for it back, or many others of many other breeds are getting out into the public and collapsing the shelter system. Who will adopt an adult dog knowing it could be reclaimed through a legal battle or may have not been rightfully adopted out? Thousands and thousands of dogs will be passed over and die because of stories like these. People will turn to breeders or backyard breeders or puppy mills when their original preference might have been to adopt a shelter dog or people will only adopt puppies when they would have preferred to adopt a juvenile or adult dog or people will pass over purebreds for clear mixed breeds assuming the purebreds were "stolen".

I hope that right now that rescuer lady is reading this thread and realizing that if she at all believes in or believed in rescue, stories like these will cause deaths. Let Piper go back home. Let shelters and rescues work to restore public faith. Save lives.
 
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