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Vent Coworker found puppy and is going to keep it

Yesterday Coworker found a puppy on his lunch break.  Everybody in the office was telling him to go to the shelter or a vet to see if the puppy is chipped. Today coworker said he does not want to turn the dog over to the animal shelter. Instead he is going to put up signs around the neighborhood and if nobody claims him he is going to keep the puppy. I feel so bad for the puppy's owners who are looking for her.

Re: Vent Coworker found puppy and is going to keep it

  • Can you play on his heart strings? Maybe there is a disabled child who lost the puppy? Or, an elderly person?
  • that is awful, at least see the puppy is chipped so if there is a distraught owner out there they can know the pupyp is ok. If its not chipped then fine keep the puppy. I with @MommyLiberty5013, can you make him feel bad about not checking?
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  • edited September 2013
    See if the pup is chipped and also call local vets offices. Maybe the dog belongs to a client and the vet may know who owns him.

    I am all for the "give it 30 days" school of thought. Put up signs, see if the dog is chipped. contact vets and even local shelters -- maybe the dog was recently adopted from the shelter -- and if nobody comes forward after 30 days, he can think about keeping the dog.

    If nobody claims the dog by then, likely the dog has been abandoned. Happening more and more. Hoping the situation is resolved with satisfaction to all involved.
  • I agree with everyone here that he should find out if the dog is chipped... If he isn't I'm sure the animal shelter would be happy for him to adopt the dog -- there are already so many dogs (and cats) in shelters. What's his reasoning behind not finding out if the dog is chipped or not?


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  • I'm not getting the problem here. Did or is he going to take the puppy in to be scanned? If so, then putting signs up is going an extra mile IMO. I also would be hesitat to do this, just like CL people will claim lost puppy and dogs and use them as bait dogs or in fights. It's a massive a heartbreaking problem. He needs to be careful of anyone claiming the puppy and he needs to screen them. So if the puppy isn't chipped I would contact the shelter and leave mine and the puppies info and that's it. It's not worth someone using the puppy as a bait dog.
  • @MLE2010 it sounded like in the OP that the coworker does not want to bother seeing if the dog is chipped. He is just going to post fliers.
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  • The 3 things that can happen if he has the dog scanned -- any vet or shelter can do it, I think also even somewhere like a Petco or Petsmart or Petland Discounts:

    1-The dog is not chipped

    2-Has a chip but it is not registered to any owner or it comes up as a "Dud"

    3-The name of the owner is registered to the chip, in which case he will call the owner and say the dog is there.

    I think he wants to keep the dog no matter what ownership the doggus has got.

    He can find many great dogs at shelters; all of them need homes.
  • Ugh. This happened to my sister. Her dog got loose and ran off. They looked for him forever and called every shelter and vet they could think of. About 3 months later, they got a call from a shelter because someone had just dropped their dog off. The neighbors down the road decided that he was their dog, but didn't want him after 3 months and dropped him off.
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  • DrZoid said:
    Ugh. This happened to my sister. Her dog got loose and ran off. They looked for him forever and called every shelter and vet they could think of. About 3 months later, they got a call from a shelter because someone had just dropped their dog off. The neighbors down the road decided that he was their dog, but didn't want him after 3 months and dropped him off.
    Moral to the story: Microchip your pets: dogs, cats, birds, you name it. Maye even yer betta fish Fred.:)

    And I hate people who think of pets as disposable. Sure, it was common years ago --- you didn't want the dog and you gave the dog away to a neighbor or friend, etc -- but it's a no no now.
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