Well, Finn is back in our home.

[conuly]

And he is legally ours!

He's too underweight still to undergo surgery (because of one internal testicle, it has to wait until he gains a bit) but he's eating nicely, despite his bad teeth. And he's been running! And jumping down from high things! Because his nails have been clipped! He's really a very happy dog.

I'm not entirely certain that the neighbors ever saw my note about how their dog was in the shelter. On the one hand, I maintain that the fact that I told them I'd take their (poor, neglected) dog to the shelter if I saw it out alone without tags again really ought to be sufficient... but on the other hand, I'm not sure they'll agree. Because clearly, they didn't go to the shelter and pick him up, so.... Yeah, it's gonna be a fun conversation. I can only hope that I can repeat my previous six-year streak of never, ever encountering these people. (I'm not sure I can. They seem to know my neighbors two doors down on either side. I know my neighbors two doors down on either side. I ought to meet up with those neighbors and carefully present my side of the story soon.)

Ugh, I haven't even "practiced to deceive" and I still feel trapped in a web. It's not deceiving until and unless I actually take him to the groomer and dye him.

Comments

[silver_chipmunk]

Yay for rescuing Finn!

[zhelana]

yay! Doggie!

[miss_s_b]

HAppy dog is the best kind of dog. That you have made him happy and your neighbours did not speaks volumes.

[conuly]

I quite agree - but, again, I have a feeling they won't have this perspective. We really do need to talk to them and have this out, because I can't have the girls walk the dog unattended until it's all sorted.

And I want to be fair, I'm sure they do care about the dog very much, especially the children. They just did a piss-poor job caring for him. Well, sometimes people don't know better. It's easy for me to get on my high horse, but it's very hard for me to get back down off of it :)

[miss_s_b]

We have a set of neighbours like that, I think.
They keep getting pups and just shutting them in the back yard til they grow up. Then the RSPCA come and take the grown dogs away.
Then silly neighbours get new pups.
It sucks for the poor doggies (almost always some kind of Staffie).

I don't lnow why the RSPCA don;t try to get them banned from keeping dogs :(

[conuly]

Poor puppies!

[miss_s_b]

Indeed and exactly.

[dogstar]

He'd look awfully cute blue, just sayin :D

[conuly]

I'm thinking flame tail.