[MarkL]

At this point I consider the dog stolen property Mark. If it wasn't a living being, I would be more inclined to let the courts settle this pre-resolution. When a living being is involved, I say return the dog and let the two week owner seek remedy in court.

Well, at this point, it appears that neither the police nor the courts believe this is a case of stolen property.

You mentioned that if I owned a car that was stolen, that it would be returned to me when recovered. If so, it's because it WAS determined to be stolen at one time.

While this situation is heartbreaking, I've read a few different accounts of how the dog was tranfered from the posession of one person to another. In some of those accounts, this could NEVER be taken as "theft."

While the woman and her actions are reprehensible, just because she's being mean and awful doesn't mean what she's doing is illegal.

Mark

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks for the additional comments Mark.

[bvw]

And what Nevills is doing is neither mean nor awful. What is incendiary -- and by that awful -- is the public reaction. The victimology -- so fond of victimology has the media trained the public to be! So willing is the public, and Freepers too, to be so played like dogs in a puppy-factory kennel going wild with feral delight when the the media tosses raw meat to them.

DANCE! Says the media. Firing pistols like some bandit into the ground before crowd. And all the crowd dances. Except one. Nevills. She says no. "I don't dance."

SLAUGHTER HER! Says the media. And the crowd tears her to pieces. She is alone, a woman alone. Torn to pieces, ravaged, pulped, defamed. The crowd?

Dog lovers all.

[World'sGoneInsane]

While the woman and her actions are reprehensible, just because she's being mean and awful doesn't mean what she's doing is illegal.

That being said, the man should just go and sit outside her house and patiently wait to take the dog back. Can one steal what is rightfully theirs?!