I don't know what states have this law, but I have not heard of it before. I checked here and there is no law like that. Just curious what states require this?

Just ignore it then Linda. Most people seem to be interested and want to hear the updates on the dog. I just started reading it today because it popped up at the top of the threads. and I know I am interested to hear how the dog is doing and the outcome..

Did you call the PD and ask about the laws regarding found property ? And I think you live in Wa state if so they do have the law. It requires you to run an add for 3 days for 2 diff weeks.

Actually, it doesn't make you look bad, it makes them look bad!!

Hmmm, I have read every post and never saw yhr offer to take the dog.. can you please point me to that post?

Even if she did offer to take the dog, mommaofmia was handling it just fine. Not all of the dogs in trouble, or lost, found etc on here need to be placed in rescue. This dog did not need to be placed in rescue....

And she has been trying to find the owner. She has done everything she can do to find the owner.

Can you please point me in the direction of that law? Our county AC handles all lost animals so when a dog is lost or found they are called and give the information, IF the owner contacts them at animal control then they put the owner in touch with the person holding the dog.

The police here do not handle lost and found animals unless someone finds one and wants it picked up.

Summary of State Lost Property Statutes

The statutes listed below represent the approximately 20 states that have enacted laws governing the disposition of lost property. These statutes typically require a finder to report and/or relinquish the found property to local authorities, publish the find in a local publication, and wait a statutorily proscribed time period prior to asserting ownership.

In essence, these enactments override or supplement the common law rule that a finder's interests are always subordinate to the true owner's. In fact, it is said the goal under common law is to reunite the lost property with its true owner. Not all states have enacted such laws; in those states without a statutory scheme, the common law rule applies.

It is unclear whether any of these codes would apply when the "lost property" is a companion animal. In fact, two states specifically exclude animals from their provisions (in part perhaps because the legislature considered the term "animal" to be a commercial animal rather than a cat or dog).

In any event, no state has enacted provisions that specifically cover the issue of a lost dog. Thus, it may be argued that the traditional common law rule of original ownership applies. One Vermont court has suggested instead that public policy interests govern this unique area of property law.

Where a finder has made reasonable efforts to locate the owner by posting notices, contacting law enforcement officials, and employing other means, he or she may claim ownership to a lost pet after a reasonable period of time. However, until more state courts are faced with this issue, or until state legislatures undertake the opportunity to delineate a clear legislative procedure, the issue of lost dog is unclear.

http://www.animallaw.info/articles/o...tystatutes.htm

I can't tell you where it is I just know it's in the books. My mom works for the Clarkston PD she is Property and Evidence Officer and that's how I know. The PD does not take in animals but they know the laws for found property and pets are considered property so the property laws have to be followed. If they are not and you just call vets and or AC and no one is looking for that dog then you decide to keep it, say 6 months or a year goes by and you are driving down the street with the dog in the car and the original owner sees their dog and follows you home and says hey that's my dog and I want it back it will go to court and if you can't prove you ran an add you will be ordered to give the dog back. Sucks especially if you spent lots of money to save the dog say because when you found it , it had been hit by a car and you decide to save it. Most often you have to return the dog and don't get your money back. Gotta love that huh. And depending on who answers the phone at your local PD, they may or may not know the answer to what to do when you find a dig, also gotta love that. This is why so many people don't know what to do. So always ask for someone in the property room as they will deff know, they deal in lost and stolen property all day long they better know.

I think it also depends on the county. Everything here is so different from county to county. I just know what it is here.

My best friend's lab got lost or stolen and a couple of months later saw these people walking with her dog. she stopped them and they claimed they had the dog since it was a puppy (my friend got him from the pound).

Well they refused to even let her check his ear for the tattoo she put in his ear. So she and he hubby called the police, they came right away and the people said, no this is our dog. The cop said my friend had to prove it was her dog.. So she told him to look in his ear for the tattoo.. He did and made these people hand over Spot to my friend right then and there.

If spot did not have that tattoo those people would have been able to walk away with the dog.

Yea same thing happened here to my friends DHs black lab. They stole her rite out of his rig when he went into a store to get a soda. He called the police and they didn't even want to come out . My friend said the cops told him it was a civil matter. What the heck , if a dog is considered property then why can't the Police do anything. He did get her back though because the cop held the dog and made my friends DH and the other guy go about 10 feet away and call the dog when he dropped the leash Candy went rite to her PaPa
( friends DH ) so the cop told the other guy "well buddy it looks like the dog belongs to him ( friends DH ) . Can you believe that, what if he had just got the dog an she didn't know her name yet then what ?

OMG that is just insane!!! Thank God the other guy didn't have a bag of beef jerky in his pocket..LOL.. I know not really funny but sheesh cops are idiots. They just don't want to get involved even though it is their job!!

All my dogs are chipped and wear tags and I keep both updated. So many people never have the chips put in their names and then you end up with a case like this dog in this thread. SOme people are just lazy, it takes one phone call to change the chip info..

Mine are not chipped , those things worry me. I have let them out just to see what they would do and they would not get far enough from me to see what they would. But all mine are rescues and were in bad shape when I got them. They are pretty spoiled and grateful and my wolf hound is pretty protective of me and his home so I know as long as he's around the little ones will not be stolen unless someone has a death wish. Ive seen him in action and it's not pretty. When I lived in Ca some idiot tried to jump my fence running from the cops and I'll tell you Ive never seen someone jump a fence so fast as that idiot did when my Big Licker went after him. Talk about Kudjo, Ha

You do not need/have to turn the dog over to animal control just call them to see if anyone is looking for the dog and give them your # incase the owner does come looking for their dog. The shelter is usually the 1st place people go when they loose a dog. Also never just call the shelter if you loose a dog, ALWAYS go to the shelter and look for yourself.

Let's not forget a couple of facts from this post.

She found the dog on a Friday, was going to take it the Vet on Monday, but Sunday she found a flyer looking for a lost dog. She called the woman, and the woman came to her house, she didn't check out the woman's house, and the woman "knew" lots about Yorkies. There was no word about continuing to look for the new owners and at first she just said "no chip was found". We are concerned because this doesn't sound like any foster placement this sounds like the dog was placed permenantly.

Gosh, Nancy...give it a rest!

Why do you make that comment just to me?

Really, what is the point of going over and over this? IT'S DONE! and they are still looking for the owner..

Why hasn't the owner put up fliers???? Seriously, that is also their responsibility and it's a small town..

At this point I would let the ad run and if nobody comes forward by then I would consider it DONE and keep the dog. We are talking a town of only 2000 people Nancy, I think they would of found them by now if they had wanted the dog..

Anyhow.. I don't see the point of harping on it.

Then don't!

Maybe because you seem to be the only one to continue to harp on this whole thing of how she handled it and it is a MOOT point now!

If this were one of your pups you would not want Nancy or any others to give it a rest.

This story so far has a happy ending, someone missing a beloved pet has taken in one that needed a loving home.

The point that the "rude" members are trying to make is simply that if this were a MISSING PET with owners looking for it that maybe the OP (or ANYONE that picks up a missing pup, I'm not bashing momofmia) could have made certain that the dog did not have an owner trying DESPERATELY to find her before giving her away to a new home, weather that "new" home said they would keep searching or not.

A good way to do this is taking the dog to your vet first, I'm not saying have a full exam done, though I would, not everyone seems to feel that finding out about this pup's internal health was the #1 priority, but scanning for a microchip is free. That should have been done. BEFORE LEAVING ANYONES HOME. Say the pup tested positive for heartworm, ringworm or something like that, wouldn't you want to know before giving those potential issues to another unknowing owner, or exposing your own pets to that.

I know the OP states she works and did not want to kennel the dog but she did not have it very long, food, bath and love were wonderful things to provide for this lost soul, and finding her a loving home was icing on the cake. So good job for what you accomplished.

If it were one of my pups lost, I'd die if someone had them, had the chance to have them scanned and then when the first opportunity came along to have someone else take over, a stranger at that, I'd never get over it.

It works out that this pup was un-wanted but if it were Reeses, Yoshi, Cookie or any of the others I pray that whoever is reading this thread MAKES SURE THEY PERSONALLY take a lost pup to be scanned.

So, yes, thank you for feeding and bathing the lost pup and placing her in a new home where she has vetting done. But don't confuse concern for rudeness, the BEST way to prevent pups from being abandoned, abused and like in this case potentially lost forever, is by education. WE CAN ALL learn from this thread if we were not so quick to take sides and call some saints and others rude. Some of the people being called HEARTLESS in this thread are the biggest hearts we have around here, they devote their LIVES to the safe keeping and rescue of those pups, lost, forgotten, abused and thrown away. I can't sit back here and let THOSE FACTS be not mentioned.

THANK YOU!!! I just hope the "REAL" owner finds their dog. The lady that has her may be a lovely lady but it's not her dog. And the way I see it some people are forgetting that the dog is "lost". I would hope people would look for me a little better than that if I lost one of mine, and not give away my dog to the 1st person that had a yorkie before.

The point is education,

Nancy is not trying to be offensive, just show that there are other avenues that one could take in trying to find a missing pup's home.

In this instance this was not the case, the pup was unwanted, so it seems, by it's original owners and the breeders don't seem to care about it either.

The pup is safe, thank god, and momofmia played a role in finding the NEW home, not the original home that was done by the new owner. That is the point being made here. IT IS A GOOD thing momofmia was there BUT if it were one of my pups I would have liked to see her PERSONALLY taken the pup to get scanned.

I realize this is a "small town" but location really makes no diffreence in this case, you might know a lot of people but not EVERYONE. I came from an even smaller town and it just does not work like that. (this is not refering to momofmia's post about the small town, just the one quoted here) It is obvious the owners did not want the dog no matter the population.

I am not saying that the pup in this thread didn't end up ultimately better off, what I am saying is that PERSONALLY I wish that it would have been established if she were chipped, sick (possibily needing meds or a special diet) and most importantly SPAYED before giving her to another home.

This girl is a LUCKY pup that she was found by a yorkie lover and given away to a yorkie lover, but some are not that lucky. There are cases where un-altered yorkies are bread for $ (shocker) and it would have been a sin to have the pup in question, or any other go into that situation. The people that see the day in and day out of rescue are not trying to be rude just realistic.

You can rehash this thread until kingdom comes and the end result will be the
same. If this dog was found in good condition then I would say chances are
it got away from someone and is lost but this dog was starving and dirty and
skinny!
Who knows if this dog was lost. Indications prove otherwise. One will
never know. It's now in a safe home and the owner, if there is one, is being
looked for. I can't reason why so many are bashing the OP for a deed well
done. Blows my mind. A possibly abandoned pup is now safe and sound.
What's to argue over? There is no proof this dog is lost, don't forget that.
This dog has a 50 - 50 chance of either being lost or abandoned.
Too many of you are hooked up on it being lost. No proof that it was.
Important things is it's safe, feed and loved.

NOBODY has forgotten that, or haven't you read. I really think everyone has gotten the message by now that one should always take a dog to be scanned.. And that was done, so really why harp on it!!:rolleyes:

What certain people are ticked about is that she let this other woman take the dog. Well look at it this way, the neighbor who first found the dog in her sun room, ALSO GAVE it away to the OP!!!

This dog has been lost for awhile now and by law they do not have to look any longer, but they are

Soooo true!! It's just to bad that so many threads have turned into an all out war by some folks..

HUH, then don't what??:confused:

You are right, this pup ended up lucky, she is spayed, found her way to momofmia and very shortly there after into a home. Sad to say this is not the norm.

Too many end up passed along and looked over while the owners try desperately to find them because some people don't know to have the pup scanned.

I don't think anyone here is trying to argue over what is right and wrong to do, just that there are other avenues one can take when searching for a pup's owners. Taking in a stray, weather it is missing or lost is a very stressful thing, for people and other pets concerned, there is help and advise out there for people looking and all ANY of us here want to do is help.