When is a dog considered "abandoned property"?

[PrincessShmoo]

All these experts smh
You can not charge someone a storage fee or anything like that if it was not part of the agreement, until you tell them that.
You must send a certified letter to both. In the letter you give them 10 days from the date they recieved to pick up the dog. If they fail to do so you will charge them x amount for boarding OR they have 10 days to pick up. After that you will consider the dog abandoned. After those 10 days the dog is yours.

Rather image the dog's fate has been decided. This thread is 18 years old.

 

[kimblebee]

Rather image the dog's fate has been decided. This thread is 18 years old.

Check your math lol

 

[PrincessShmoo]

Check your math lol

Thread started June 16, 2009. Today is Aug 2017 - that's 18 years, isn't it?

 

[HarperLeigh]

Thread started June 16, 2009. Today is Aug 2017 - that's 18 years, isn't it?

Ah, no.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

Ah, no.

OK, got it - 8 years (don't know why I was adding that additional 10 years). Even so......the dog probably has been taken care of.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

Goofy05 was last seen:

Feb 23, 2015

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

OOOO A Zombie thread.

5 out of 10 zombies said the dog is abandoned as soon as they get hungry for some brains.
4 out of 10 said sue em so they could eat the judge and jury.
1 out of 10 started drooling. So we high tailed it out of there and ended the survey.

 

[scrapquitler]

Hi! Here's the situation: A friend purchased a puppy with his girlfriend around the first of the year. A few days later, they needed someone to puppy sit while they went to Vegas. Okay, sure, I'll watch her. They came back, took the puppy back, had a fight and split up. Said friend now has no place to keep the dog until closing on a house he bid on. Sure, I'll watch the dog. He never showed any interest in taking her back, even after the house should have closed.
Forward to last night. His ex-girlfriend comes to my house at nearly 11:00pm and demands her dog back. I did call the local police, and of course, she left before they arrived. The officer took the information and called her cell. Voice mail, as was expected. He left a lengthy message telling her not to come back to my property and that her case is a civil matter. He told me he thinks the dog has become abandoned property and is now mine.
Does anyone know at what point the dog became abandoned and if she has any chance at getting her back? She kept repeating that she has a receipt.
TIA!

I've seen a similar case (more than once) on Judge Judy. Basically Judge Judy told the person that wanted their dog back to pound sand because they left it with someone else for many many months and the dog didn't even know them anymore.

Have you taken the dog to the vet at all? Keep the receipts if you have because that will help prove that you were caring for the dog more than her if she files a small claims case against you.

 

[pryncess527]

Goofy05 was last seen:

Feb 23, 2015

which sucks, cause after reading this thread I really want an update Hope she got to keep the dog

 

[lynxstch]

Have you taken the dog to the vet at all? Keep the receipts if you have because that will help prove that you were caring for the dog more than her if she files a small claims case against you.

Did you see the date on the original post?? It's from June 2009

 

[scrapquitler]

Did you see the date on the original post?? It's from June 2009

Not until after I posted. Still, I don't think it matters. Someone looking for information might still find it relevant. I really don't understand why people are so adamant about not posting to older threads. I only answered one of the posts that showed at the top of the list this morning as the newest active post.

 

[Magpie]

Not until after I posted. Still, I don't think it matters. Someone looking for information might still find it relevant. I really don't understand why people are so adamant about not posting to older threads. I only answered one of the posts that showed at the top of the list this morning as the newest active post.

The post you quoted was clearly tagged as being posted in 2009. It's very easy to see... Yours, in fact, says, "scrapquitler, Today at 10:46 AM" right at the bottom of your post.

And you even asked, "Have you taken the dog to the vet at all? Keep the receipts if you have because that will help prove that you were caring for the dog more than her if she files a small claims case against you." I certainly hope they have taken the dog to the vet in the intervening years, but the advice to keep the receipts is probably not useful to them at this point.

Basically, people get fussy about zombie threads for two reasons...

1. It's ridiculous to be offering advice to someone almost a decade after the fact. (And no, you can't pretend you're nobly helping some other random stranger who might stumble across this thread in the future.)

2. It's annoying to get suckered in, just because you forgot to look at the date. Just like you did! (And as I've done, too, on occasion.)

 

[Kaytie]

I suppose, if you consider a dog personal property, you could try adverse possession http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Adverse+possession

 

[manning]

Shared custody. One gets the front half and the other the other half.

Have no idea.

 

[Pacolovestacos]

Not until after I posted. Still, I don't think it matters. Someone looking for information might still find it relevant. I really don't understand why people are so adamant about not posting to older threads. I only answered one of the posts that showed at the top of the list this morning as the newest active post.

Agreed the date is irrelevant. You post on whatever thread you want and anyone who doesn't like it can pound sand.

 

[caseylablab]

All these experts smh
You can not charge someone a storage fee or anything like that if it was not part of the agreement, until you tell them that.
You must send a certified letter to both. In the letter you give them 10 days from the date they recieved to pick up the dog. If they fail to do so you will charge them x amount for boarding OR they have 10 days to pick up. After that you will consider the dog abandoned. After those 10 days the dog is yours.

I have someones dogs who is in a nursing home and unable to care for the dogs. He said he has no one who he can have take care of them. I agreed to keep the dogs for two weeks, that became a month and then middle of July and now doesnt know. He can't walk, he is on oxygen, and has glaucoma. So he can't drive. He had a wreck with the dogs and one died. He is still recovering. The dogs are extremely yappy but are happy and healthy where they are. My husband has cancer and is tired of the barking and leg hiking. These dogs were completely untrained to do anything but bark and leg hike. i want the dogs gone. what are my options. i have told him i will need him to bring me a check for right now 3000.00 for care of the dogs and have someone pick them up or give the dogs to me and I will have someone find them homes. can i turn them over to a rescue group?

 

[holden]

I have someones dogs who is in a nursing home and unable to care for the dogs. He said he has no one who he can have take care of them. I agreed to keep the dogs for two weeks, that became a month and then middle of July and now doesnt know. He can't walk, he is on oxygen, and has glaucoma. So he can't drive. He had a wreck with the dogs and one died. He is still recovering. The dogs are extremely yappy but are happy and healthy where they are. My husband has cancer and is tired of the barking and leg hiking. These dogs were completely untrained to do anything but bark and leg hike. i want the dogs gone. what are my options. i have told him i will need him to bring me a check for right now 3000.00 for care of the dogs and have someone pick them up or give the dogs to me and I will have someone find them homes. can i turn them over to a rescue group?

Find out who has power of attorney for him. Give the dogs to that person.

 

[mummabear]

OP, morally I think you are the owner. I dknt know about legally sadly, they aren't always the same thing.

You could argue that the BF gave you the puppy when you asked him if he was taking it back, in an agreement you made to cover costs.
I would not make any contact with her about your fees etc but just wait until you are in court.
No fee was discussed as it was meant to be a short time, I assume they provided you with food originally and it was assumed that they would pick them up before any other costs were incurred.
"BF agreed for you to keep the dog in return for these costs incurred.
GFs issue is with the BF not you. But she abandoned the dog when she left BF and the dog behind

 

[chartle]

OP, morally I think you are the owner. I dknt know about legally sadly, they aren't always the same thing.

Op left 3 years ago. This is a double Zombie thread started 9 years ago.

 

[mummabear]

Op left 3 years ago. This is a double Zombie thread started 9 years ago.

I wonder what happend!