Hopefully Piper's legal owners get her back as soon as the jury finds for them. This situation is disgraceful! That disgusting rescue organization should have returned that poor dog to her rightful owners the moment they were fully informed of the slapdash, careless, illegal methods used by the shelter in releasing an owner's microchipped, just lost dog w/out doing due diligence to locate the owner and wait the statutory hold time in order to allow the owner a reasonable length of time to locate and reclaim their dog. The shelter received what I understand was an illegal transfer of the dog that they they then subsequently ultimately and knowingly took advantage of by keeping the dog.
As I understand it, any animal doesn't come under a municipality shelter's full legal care, custody and control rights to euthanize or sell to another party until the shelter has fulfilled their legal obligations to effort locating its current owner and holding it for a statutory period of time for the rightful owner to reclaim.
By using the disgraceful actions of the shelter to avail themselves of someone else's champion show dog, they have revealed they have no actual love or regard for dogs or feel any compunction to return poor, confused Piper back to her owners ASAP! So much for the "rescue" aspect of Central Ohio Sheltie Rescue title - it's more like Central Ohio Sheltie Thievery!
I hope this rescue organization is drummed out of the business after this and any charity monies they have received are requested back, as any monies donated certainly weren't made with the intent of prematurely selling a citizen's dog to anyone before all the proper steps were taken to hold the dog until they could reunite the dog with its owner. These people don't have the ethics to trade in innocent animals.
__________________  Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |