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I saw that article too and thought of Monique and Ollie and Misty and Max Also, youve got to wonder what kind of care those Rottweilers were getting if the owners werent aware they were gone 18 hours later! Theres no surer way to turn your dogs into aggressive, dangerous animals than to banish them from the house where their human pack lives and confine and isolate them in the yard guaranteed to produce an anti-social, aggressive dog. The only positive thing in that story is that the owners gave the dogs up to the authorities without a fight. I suspect the owners were more ignorant than deliberately trying to create aggressive dogs. Ignorance is tragic for the dogs, the owners and the dogs victim and family! Definitely report the dog Monique. If the appropriate authorities where you live are like ours here, they cant do much unless the dog has been reported and they have an on-going record of the problems. Max, the dog who attacked Misty, was well known to the Humane Society and his owners had been fined many times. After the incident with Misty (witnessed and reported by a neighbour, documented by the vet who treated her wounds copied to the Humane Society, wounds photographed by us and sent to the Humane Society) the Humane Society finally put a Biting Dog Order against the owners. Any future incidents of the dog running loose will cost them $5,000 I suspect the real purpose is the potential of the fine is supposed to give them incentive to put the dog down themselves. From our experience and the news article that GB posted, it appears that the Humane Society around here can only force euthanasia if the dog bites a person. Maybe its the same where you are Monique but at least report it so that the authorities have a record and can take whatever action they can under the laws that operate within.

Thanks for all your hard work Karen! Can't wait to read it in its entirety. Jodi-

Good job Karen! I tried to search for the very first segment, but it must be bumped off the site now. So this is only the story of Gomer and Margie, which have had quite the adventures of their own.