Quote Originally Posted by jenluckenbach
it happened not too long ago to a grooming customer who lives close to our grooming shop. She found a lost Shih Tzu. Cute, friendly....etc, As this person went about trying to locate the owner (no tags with an address) she DID actually find them just by word of mouth. The people DID NOT WANT THE DOG BACK! They were going to take the dog to the SPCA when it ran off, and they simply never bothered to look for it.

So you can't always assume someone is grieved over losing an animal.

Reminds me of a client that came in about a year ago with a 'stray' dog she had fallen in love with. We scanned it and found a microchip. The lady called the original owner who did not want the dog back and seemed annoyed that anyone had traced it back to him. Makes you kinda wonder why he had a microchip put in the first place. Anyways so this lady ended up keeping the dog.