Posted by NCWayne on June 21, 2013 at 08:06:22 from (173.188.169.54):
In Reply to: OT/ Some People - Rant posted by Nancy Howell on June 21, 2013 at 05:51:33:
I understand what your saying about theft, and your right in that respect. However being a dog owner myself, I've got to speak up in the womans defense as NO ONE really KNOWS 100% what the womans motives were. If I were in her shoes and saw a dog (or two) standing beside the road like that I would probably stop also. If the dogs had a collar that means they belonged to someone and that someone might not know that their dogs were standing beside the highway. The only way to know who the dogs belonged to would be to get one, or the other, of them to come to you to look at the tag on their collar. With that info the owner might could be contacted, via cell phone, to get their animal before it got hit by a car. Beyond that the dog I would personally attempt to call would be the one that payed me the most attention and looked most likely to listen to me when I called it. In the case of this lady she might have felt better calling the cutest one, the least threatening one, etc, etc, which was trhe basset hound.
Just because I saw somebody out in a field on a tractor doesn't mean I'm automatically going to assume that the dog/dogs belong to that person. Personally I've seen dogs running free around everything from farm machinery to mining/construction equipment, and typically they stay out of the way, but there are occasinal accidents. In the case of someone doing something like cutting hay, I wouldn't think that person would have animals with them given how easy it would be to 'lose' the animal in the hay and hit them with the mower. It happens all the time to deer, and other animals, and could happen just as easily to a dog that was running free. Then add in the fact the dogs weren't oactually on your property but instead standing on a road right of way, and the whole idea of theft goes out the window. In other words had she come on your property and taken the dog it would have been theft, but had she picked up a stray standing beside the road, then it would not have been theft. Granted that would be more debatible had she taken a dog with a tag and then not contacted the owner, but either way a dog running free, and not on your property, is a stray, regardless.
In the end until you can prove what the woman was actually thinking, or the true intent behind her actions, in my view she has done absolutely nothing wrong.
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