A homeless drug addict gave my husband I a dog 4 months ago. We never heard from her again until last weekend when she stole him back. The dog is licensed in our name, but he police won’t do anything. All I have been told I can do is file a Civil Suit for the cost of his care.

Once she and COKIE our 4 year old Labchow were let loose 40 miles from where we stay in another state without their collars or tags. We think that they were let loose after whoever had them read the tags that said they micro-chips. The people that found them took them to a vet and got in touch with us. A friend got her chip dog three month after it disappeared.

Another time she was sold for drugs. Another time some kids conspired to keep LUCKY and then a father wanted to
keep her for his kids. Each of these three times we put up 200 or more reward posters in about a 20 square block area. Also a car window window was broken and COKIE chased those people off.

everyone knows their own situation best. there’s no way i could ever let my cats out or leave a dog in my non- existant yard- i live in an urban environment. that doesn’t mean their are not some places on earth you can do these things and still be considered responsible. it just seems however people are getting increasingly destructive. i find it impossible to trust humans to respect me and mine.

Am I supposed to feel alarmed because call me names? Are you imagining that there are possible legal consequences to the fact that I didn’t immediately say, “Oh, yes, I’m completely wrong and terrible person, it’s good that Nora leave Rufus (a dog whom she claims is vicious) unsupervised in her yard all day while she’s at work?”

Time for you to grow up and start taking responsibility for your own actions (and comments), Nora.

And if someone thinks they can make a profit by stealing your dog, they’ll find a way–drugged meat, for instance.

The child day care may have big windows overlooking your yard, but they’re watching the kids, not your dog.

The police traffic will help only if the police happen to be there when someone decides to steal or harm your dog.

I call your worry “self-indulgent” because you chose to make a point of it in public, but are in fact doing something that’s quite dangerous for your dog, and don’t plan to change it.

We have German Shepherds, a 6′ cyclone fence with privacy slats, and our gates are locked. You wouldn’t want better guard dogs. However, the neighbor’s kids felt it would be fun to jump off their garage roof into our locked yard one day when we weren’t home. Our dogs love kids, but these were people jumping into our yard! Our dogs were safely inside, but the police gave these kids an earful when our other neighbor caught them. If our dogs would’ve been out and bit these little monsters, they would’ve been deemed ‘vicious.’

My main point, please watch your pets at all times. This world is just way too crazy.

Nora, I am glad Rufus is behind a fence and not on a chain. A double fence would also protect any child that may wander from the daycare and stick their fingers through the fence.