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External Since: Aug 13, 2006 Posts: 1460

ceb wrote:

> Another reason to move to Canada! Our animal services here won't take a
> dog that I pick up -- they only pick up dogs that are running loose, and
> if I have the (stranger's) dog, then s/he isn't running loose. Argh.

Well that's messed up. In Muncie, it was (and may still be) illegal
to pick up someone else's dog. I can understand the reasoning
behind that, but necessity dictates that the law be ignored most of
the time, and AC was generally happy to do so. I had to call them
out several times, sometimes after hours, to pick up dogs that I'd
corralled.

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Shelly
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External Since: Sep 22, 2007 Posts: 132

Shelly wrote in

>> Another reason to move to Canada! Our animal services here won't take
>> a dog that I pick up -- they only pick up dogs that are running
>> loose, and if I have the (stranger's) dog, then s/he isn't running
>> loose. Argh.
>
> Well that's messed up.

You're telling me. The security folks in my community suggested that I
let the dogs loose so that maybe they could find their way home on their
own. They were running wildly down a busy road! 3 cars (that I saw)
nearly hit them! And when I finally found the owner and drove to her
house, and saw how far away it was from where I had found them, I was
really extra glad I had picked them up. One or both would have been
killed, I suspect. And they had escaped out the gate without the owner
knowing about it.

In Muncie, it was (and may still be) illegal
> to pick up someone else's dog.

I think that's pretty messed up too. Seems to me it makes sense if (a)
the first person who sees the loose dog picks him/her up if possible and
(b) the rescuer shouldn't be penalized by then having responsibility for
the dog.

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Catherine
& Zoe, Queenie, & Max, 3 black dogs of varying sizes
& Rosalie the calico cat
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