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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your dog should not have been outdoors unsupervised.

You can speculate that the dog was let out of the yard on purpose, but this may or may not be so.

The shelter is completely within its rights to treat this as an at-large situation, and to charge you.  They have provided you with a SERVICE, after all.

If I were you, I'd be racing there with money in hand, anxious to see my dog again and relieved to get her back.  [b]I cannot understand your reaction AT ALL.[/b][/quote]

Your inability to understand does not make my irritation and frustration less valid.

I think the "at-large" citation is complete BS and a way for them to get some money out of me. If they called it a fee for homing him, sure, but "at-large"? [b]AND they didn't find him outdoors. Someone brought him in..[/b]..so that makes their citation even more slimy and money-grubbing. [/quote]

Of COURSE someone (some GOOD person who went OUT OF THEIR WAY) took him in.  The shelter doesn't drive around looking for lost pets.

How do you define "at large" if this isn't it?

And WHY are you posting here instead of going to get your poor dog?  In your shoes I couldn't bear to leave him there for another moment.[/quote]

at large: at large(p): having escaped, especially from confinement; "a convict still at large"; "searching for two escaped prisoners"; "[b]dogs loose on the streets[/b]"; "criminals on the [b]loose in the neighborhood[/b]".

At-large would seem to indicate that they found the animal roaming around.

The shelter closed at 6PM. [/quote]

It is entirely possible if not likely that someone DID find the animal roaming around.

You do not KNOW that someone took the dog out of your yard.  You cannot know, because you weren't supervising your dog, as you should have been.[/quote]

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