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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"? AND they didn't find him outdoors. Someone brought him in....so that makes their citation even more slimy and money-grubbing. [/quote]\

This fine is how they deter people from being careless with their dogs.  Bet you aren't going to let this happen again.[/quote]

OP I hear ya!  Those shelters are ridiculous.

It's not always people that are careless.  We had the gas company come into our yard and leave our gate completely uunlocked and open (way open).  I let our dogs out and of course they ran off.
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Then some inconsiderate neighbor called the pound instead of posting on our neighborhood listserve (like EVERY does when their cat, dog, etc go missing).  [/b]I was out looking for the dog when they tried calling my house.  No answer, so they took them both out to the FFX Cty shelter.  After we finally found out where they were they told us we couldn't come and get them right away (can't remember exactly why - it was Sunday maybe and that 'part' of the shelter wasn't open then).  My DH had to take off time from work the next weekday morning to go bail them out of jail.

DH basically told them and me that if it happens again they can KEEP th dogs.  He's not as fond of them as I am ;-([/quote]

Uhm, yeah, when*their* pets go missing.  Not when some random dogs are roaming around.  Did you expect them to get the dogs, keep them, and then post on the listserv on the off chance that they belong to someone who reads that?

Normal people call Animal Control when there are animals roaming around, regardless.[/quote]

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