A family member recently rescued a dog, a puppy, that was in bad shape. The previous owner let him go to the point of being furless and very skinny.
She took him from this person and started treating him. She fed him and got him medical care (his fur loss was cause by allergic reactions to gluten. We found out later he had a poultry allergy as well) but my family member was having medical concerns of her own and so gave him to me. This dog fit in perfectly with us. My husband is a Iraq war veteran and was in the process of getting approved to train this dog as a PTSD service animal.
He was doing well and then started losing his fur again, getting hotspots and throwing up everything he ate. We narrowed it down to the turkey in his canned dog food. We started giving him food without any poultry and he had just started to put on weight again when the animal control officer came. The first words out of his mouth were yelling and threatening me. He would not believe that I was not neglecting this dog, and he would not look at the hundreds of dollars of meds and treatments I had for him. He was 100% sure he had mange and told me dogs don't lose fur due to allergies. He threatened to take me to jail right then if I didn't sign this one paper and told me the paper was just to get permission to get him seen by their vets. I tried to read it but he threatened me more (I have many, many witnesses to this) and took my dog. He told me to call in about a week to see about getting the dog back and not any sooner. I told him this was NOT an owner surrender.
The Humane Society called me the day after asking about the dog. They said it was brought in as an owner surrender and my aunt (who answered ) told them it wasn't (they also said he did not have mange of course) and they said they were calling the officer. He called back and loudly cursed me. He was mad that I had called before the week was up and I told him they called me. He tried to gaslight me about what he said and when that wasn't working, he said If i contacted the family member that took him to the vet he would talk to them as proof that he got medical care. I had the family member talk to him and he wouldn't hear it. He wouldn't even release the dog to her because he didn't want there to be a chance for me to even see him.
I did not every neglect this dog. I would take him on walks around lunch time every day and take a sandwich for me and some treats for him to eat next to a creek. This is killing my husband, who has PTSD as this was going to be his service animal. They threatened me any time I tried to explain this. Is there anything that can be done? This dog was family and slept in the bed with me and the kids. They thought that since he was in bad shape that I did this to him and I have tons of proof otherwise. I believe they thought I was a single, unemployed mom with 4 kids in a trailer trash home that was neglectful when in reality I am unemployed, but because I am a stay at home mom and my husband is a lineman and makes enough to give this animal medical care anytime he needed it but my husband is gone 5 days a week to his job so he wasn't here when this happened. We were at my grandmothers house when this happened which happens to be an old trailer because we are moving Wed. Thank you for reading.
Written By: Xamry14
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