Thanks for the link, but that’s not the beginning of the saga.
I started following this story when it broke (and I am sure you guys did too). There was a lot more depth to this than that blog page lays out.
I swear that I’m not trying to be a douchebag with my cautious opinion, and if you could help me find the original threads I could probably explain better why I think this is an incautious outcome.
That isn’t a blog page, it is a forum just like FR. There are no “threads” out there that more completely recount the story as these are the real posts of all of the participants from start to finish.
The posts include when the dog was first discover, the plans for a rescue, the successful rescue with photos and finally the jerk coming on the thread making excuses.
This IS the whole story.
The guy just left her for dead when the government wouldn’t go get her for him. She was up there for days, stunned hikers were coming down off the mountain wanting to know why, they finally did what this lazy excuse of a man should have done the very next day, got a group together, went up the mountain, got her, brought her back down and got her to a vet for treatment of her injuries.
He abandoned any claim to the dog when he abandoned her and left her for dead. He has no claim. Ample precedent regarding abandoned property exists, look to the very old vendue laws regarding shipwreck salvage here in NC for but one example.
The dog belongs to her rescuers.
Didn't think you were, but I was/am curious about your reasoning.
if you could help me find the original threads
No luck, sorry.
You know, the guy did nothing. He called “the authorities” and when they wouldn’t carry the load he gave up. As I recall the bits I originally read he then spent his time feeling real bad, about his dog, who was dying of starvation and dehydration on a mountain he brought her to.
Other people, who just encountered the dog by happenstance didn’t ask Big Sis to help them, they helped themselves and the poor, helpless dog.
And saved the animal’s life.
I don’t get at all what you mean about “collectivism”, to me the people who saved the dog showed the true American way of self-reliance, true community action and charity.
The original owner is just a lazy, self-pitying slob who gave up any moral claim to this animal when he left it to die FOR EIGHT DAYS on a mountain, a mountain I repeat that HE BROUGHT HER TO.
And you know what, I don’t even like dogs.
But, it was I who made hubby stop the truck when we saw two dogs (obviously escaped from their home/yard) jumping through traffic. Luckily a cop showed up and they knew the dogs and were taking them home. And yes, I’m no animal rights nut, animals are chattel, they are property, but they are living beings and when you leave them to die, you leave your claim to them also.
God bless those people who saved this dog, I hope they have many happy years together. To the original owner I suggest, get a cat, they can take care of themselves.