Reading the comments to the link, the owner let the dog out and it ran away.
The police officer and his wife found the dog, put up fliers to find the owner.
No one responded so they cared for the dog.
The officer and his wife claim to have *found* the pug. But people who *find* dogs wandering the streets do not object to a dog’s ID chip being read to determine whether a private citizen’s assertion of ownership is legitimate.
“The dog had an embedded identity chip, Harrison said, but the Wrights refused to allow police to scan the dog’s chip to confirm whether the pug was the reported missing canine.The complainant said the dog cost her $1,378 and provided a receipt, police said.”
The big question: why did they refuse to allow the dog’s chip to be scanned?