The Curlydog Odyssey
I had hoped to be writing this evening about how excited we all were that our newest family was home with us, but alas, that was not to be.
I received a call this morning from the Citrus County Animal Services indicating that they had placed another hold on our adoption of "Cooper". (not sure how you place a hold on something that is already completed, but since I do not have Cooper and they sorta do, he is actually at the vets, we play by their rules.
It seems that there is a LARGE (23,000 entrents) dog show going on in Brooksville just down the road in Hernando County and there is some report of a missing dog. So they had just called the vet and placed the neutering on hold.
They had decided they needed to make sure they had taken every step to see if the dog could be returned. So they were going to have Orange County Animal Services place a 24 notice on the door of the last address they had for the original registrant of the microchip.
Now I really do not want to separate a dog from its family if at all possible, but I do have a few concerns, first the dog was recovered on the 30th of December, I first heard about the dog from CBRRescue on the 5th, I received only vague info as they were driving and did not have their notes handy, yet I found the dog within 7 minutes of browsing the Internet, how could they have not found their dog in 12 days? Second, the dog show angle makes no sense to me as the show started the 8th and ends the 18th, the dog was found the 30th and again if that were the case would it even remotely be likely that they(the owners) would not have found the dog. Plus the AKC shows no registration to the name that was on the original microchip registration.
I do believe they are doing the correct thing by placing the notice, I just hope it is not a case where someone who no longer wanted the dog suddenly feels guilty and obilgated to reclaim him. I also wish they had taken that step before allowing us to get so invested in the dog emotionally, we were all very excited and Molly is heartbroken.
Well it either will be oor won't be, now we just wait and hope that the best thing for "Cooper" is what happens.
We should know at the end of the day Tuesday.
I received a call this morning from the Citrus County Animal Services indicating that they had placed another hold on our adoption of "Cooper". (not sure how you place a hold on something that is already completed, but since I do not have Cooper and they sorta do, he is actually at the vets, we play by their rules.
It seems that there is a LARGE (23,000 entrents) dog show going on in Brooksville just down the road in Hernando County and there is some report of a missing dog. So they had just called the vet and placed the neutering on hold.
They had decided they needed to make sure they had taken every step to see if the dog could be returned. So they were going to have Orange County Animal Services place a 24 notice on the door of the last address they had for the original registrant of the microchip.
Now I really do not want to separate a dog from its family if at all possible, but I do have a few concerns, first the dog was recovered on the 30th of December, I first heard about the dog from CBRRescue on the 5th, I received only vague info as they were driving and did not have their notes handy, yet I found the dog within 7 minutes of browsing the Internet, how could they have not found their dog in 12 days? Second, the dog show angle makes no sense to me as the show started the 8th and ends the 18th, the dog was found the 30th and again if that were the case would it even remotely be likely that they(the owners) would not have found the dog. Plus the AKC shows no registration to the name that was on the original microchip registration.
I do believe they are doing the correct thing by placing the notice, I just hope it is not a case where someone who no longer wanted the dog suddenly feels guilty and obilgated to reclaim him. I also wish they had taken that step before allowing us to get so invested in the dog emotionally, we were all very excited and Molly is heartbroken.
Well it either will be oor won't be, now we just wait and hope that the best thing for "Cooper" is what happens.
We should know at the end of the day Tuesday.
posted by Curlydog - Bill at
1/12/2009 06:41:00 PM
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