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Input: I'm sorry if I'm a little descriptive with my writing... I want to emphasize the state of this dog, not to defend myself, but to give a clear picture of why I did what I did.

A few weeks ago I found a Lhasa Apso in my back yard. The dog has clearly been neglected for some time, as he had horrible mats on his face, the size of clementines where his mustache hair should be, a sharp plastic like mass on the bridge of his nose where his eye goop had coalesced, severe matting on his sides, stomach, and hind quarters, and was covered head to toe in his own filth.... The dog smelled like a sewer. The dog was wearing a faded collar that was rusty on the metal bits with no tags (name tag, or county registration/rabies vaccine tag as required by law), and attached was a 6 foot length of vinyl coated braided cable that looked to have been cut.

It was 22 degrees F outside and snowing hard, with about 2 inches of snow on the ground and this little dog was prancing around leaving brown streaks in the snow as he went. I managed to snatch up the lead he was dragging around and walked him up and down the alley to see where he would go, or see where his tracks led, but he was so excited by everything around, and cars had been up and down the street so I couldn't find his house of origin, and honestly with the state he was in I didn't want to.

Since there was no way this garbage dump of a dog was going anywhere near my car, I brought him inside and cleaned him up. I gagged from the smell as I bathed him but he was agreeable the whole time, and even while I picked twigs out of his mats and picked the dried dingle-berries of his hind quarters he didn't put up a fight.

I took him to a nearby shelter the next day and was turned away because it was a city shelter, and I had to turn him in to the county I found him in. They checked for a micro chip, which he did not have, and were clearly disgusted by the state of the dog. They didn't say anything specific, but asked me if I had taken pictures, and advised me to keep the collar and lead to give the other shelter "Just in case the owners come back". The nearest shelter in the county would be closed by the time I got there so I would have to take him the next day.

We are now 3 days in, and I have been monitoring craigs list and stopping by near by vets to check for missing dog posts and found nothing, though at this point my motivation was to file animal cruelty charges. I found several ads for shi tzu dogs stolen in the area, but none for him ( he is much larger than a shi tzu and has inique markings).

In the days I've had him I noticed he has many bad habits that make it hard to adopt out. He barks when alone, he tears up anything he gets his teeth on, he has major food aggression, among other things. Things that are manageable or can be trained out, but not good news for a shelter dog, especially an older dog.

I took him to the shelter and I asked about adopting him. They were thrilled and told me there is a 3 day wait period while they monitor lost dog ads and give the owners a chance to claim him. They expressed concern over how I found him and took the lead and collar.

After 4 days (the shelter was closed due to the ice and snow, adding another day for the owner to seek him out) I got a call that I could come adopt him, but I had to pick him up between 3-6 PM or he would "No longer be available for adoption". I can only speculate what that means, but I assumed the worst and picked up the dog after work.

Fast forward a few more days. I'm walking the dog and an older woman and her 16 year old daughter come running up. The dog immediately recognizes them and jumps up to the daughter.

The mother tells me that it is her dog, and I tell her that I just adopted the dog and describe the way the dog was found. She tells me that I was lieing about the smell and filth on the dog, but she knows about the matting, and says she just had other things going on in her life. I had a long haired dog once when I was near being homeless so I can relate to not being able to afford a groomer, but a hair brush costs a dollar so I wasn't particularly moved. I told her that I needed to talk to my wife about it, because I can't just give up the dog without her input. She agreed and I took the dog inside.

I told my wife what happened, and that I thought they were nice enough people. The woman was very kind and the daughter seemed to really love the dog. We agreed to go out and discuss how we found the dog, why it was tied up outside, and give them the dog if they could assure us his conditions would improve.

That was the plan anyway, until we came back outside and the woman came running at my wife swinging, shouting "I'll fuck you up, you fat bitch, if you don't give me my dog back right now I'll beat your ass every day until you do you nasty bitch! You'll see a side of me you've never seen before!" as her daughter struggled to hold her back.  My wife told her that we adopted it and he had clearly been neglected, and asked if she had called the police, which she had. My wife told her that since she was threatening her and trying to attack her she was calling 911, which she thanked us for so they could drag our "nasty dog stealing asses to jail". She shouted that she saw me sneak into her yard and cut the lead and run off with the dog as she went back into her house.

The police arrived and we both gave our sides of the story separately. We showed the paperwork and tags to the officer and he said that we followed the law to the letter and had no obligation to return the dog. I asked what she had told him about why the dog was outside in the first place in weather that cold. She told him that she had only put him out for 10 minutes (which is the legal limit you are allowed to leave a dog out in the cold in our county) until she saw me sneak in and take him. The officer said it wasn't his place to judge who's story was true based off hear say but noted she never called it in. Based off her time line the dog had been missing for 3 hours before I found him. When the officer asked her why there were no tags found on the dog she said that she "Keeps them inside where they are safe" but could not produce them when asked.

I have always taken in strays, and made my best effort to find them their homes, or find them new homes if I cannot. I have 3 cats, and 2 bearded dragons (and 2 room mates) from this habit. I really was not in the market for a dog, especially one with behavioral issues that need to be worked though, and ultimately don't think I will be keeping the dog after I have done what I can for his behavior. I have been wracked with guilt over the whole thing. I am NOT happy about taking away a young girls dog... but there is no way that dog is going to go back to them. 

I stand by my decision to keep the dog, and my friends and family say I did the right thing, but I hope to hear the judgement of an unbiased group. 

not returning a dog I found/adopted to their previous family