I respect that viewpoint. It just sounded like he was taken advantage of while trying to save his friend/dog. I know I get attached very quickly to animals and it would be difficult to give up one. But, if indeed the original owner was pushed into signing, then it was wrong. He may have felt this was the only way to save Shuma.It is just a sad situation all the way around.
He was pushed by a desperate circumstance, and she's a jerk for not giving the dog back under the kind of pressure she's gotten.... If there's a way to appeal to her to change her mind, that's a good thing to try to do.... but lets not just make up facts and law as we go.
He has an ethical and human-interest case for her to reconsider. But he has no legal case. Can you imagine a shelter trying to adopt out dogs to people under the circumstance that signing the dog over only means 'unless the previous owner changes his mind some weeks or months from now and wants the dog back'?
That's all I'm saying.