Ahhhh Just found this on Facebook  and wondered if any of you good knowledgeable people had any advice for this family on how they can get their dog back with the family where she belongs, Bring scruffy home,, thanks https://www.facebook.com/FightForScruffy

How about contacting local newspaper

Oh God that is heartbreaking :-( I hope she is found safe and well but I fear it is unlikely. I don't want to speculate about what may have happened to her :-( :-(  Have liked the page, thanks for the link.

She has been found Cavlover, the facebook page is a bit confusing really.
She was tied up outside a co-op on the 26th while the owner was in side and gone when she came out, 3 days later dog was put up on an animal sanctuary's website as needing a new home. I think it was the dog warden or someone who saw the dog on the sanctuary's page but by then the dog had already been rehomed.
Not sure if theres more to it but think its quite bad that a sanctuary would take a dog in and have it rehomed within 3 days or so, wheres the time to assess the dog?

Beats me how people can be so incredibly stupid to tie a dog up outside a shop in this day and age -it's like leaving your car unlocked with keys in the ignition.......... Obviously I don't know the full story here but by law no found dog can be rehomed until 7 days have passed, giving the owner a chance to find it. And that is if it is via the dog warden, if a private individual finds it, it is 30 days. Wonder how it ended up at the rescue?

Oh sorry, I misread it!  I thought she was still missing since March. So, she has been homed with a new family? That is terrible and surely they would want to do the right thing (even if they have grown attached to her) and let her real family have her back? :-(

"Beats me how people can be so incredibly stupid to tie a dog up outside a shop in this day and age -it's like leaving your car unlocked with keys in the ignition"

People do it at our primary school gates all the time, so utterly foolish. When you consider many a dog has been stolen from it's own back garden, why on earth would anyone leave a dog unattended in a public place? To be fair to the owners though, they probably assumed it is only pure breeds that get stolen, as they can be sold on for a good amount of money :-(

I have this written into my puppy info now, not to tie dogs up outside shops,etc.  A little insight into what can happen works wonders to change the habits of a lifetime.
I would fight tooth and nail if this were my dog.  Even though the other family didn't know the full story, surely they could see sense if the lady explained what had happened and give her dog back.  She can't be that attached allready.

>  but by law no found dog can be rehomed until 7 days have passed, giving the owner a chance to find it.

I wonder if the fact the woman found the dog herself (apparently tied to a tree*) in the first place and just took it home to keep, has any bearing?

I do feel for the woman, but when she found the dog she took it home and there could well have been a family looking for the dog thierselfs, this woman then leaves the dog tied up and is kicking up a stink as somebody took it - pot & kettle????

* I do think it's very foolish leaving ones dog tied up outside, but just because you find a dog tied to a tree does not mean it's abanadoned. I know of a woman that ties her dog up when she goes shopping, the dog is left tied up in the rear of a car-park as it's quiter there so the dog is less likely to be getting in peoples way. It's a large friendly dog but with a habbit of jumping up at people, you may well think it's abandoned if you spot it (my son kept an eye on it for 45mins once thinking it had been dumped), but it isn't!

> To be fair to the owners though, they probably assumed it is only pure breeds that get stolen, as they can be sold on for a good amount of money

Sadly, people don't just steal dogs to sell, they steal them to torture/kill/use as bait for fighting dog etc....

Also leaving a dog tied up opens up a whole lot of possible scenarios in which it could feel the need to defend itslf.

A prime example being the dog that was left tied up outside my boys school - a little girl ran at the dog and hugged it - the dog bit her face several times. It was very lucky for the dog that it's behaviour was actually understood o be defensive tand was not destroyed (the fact it was a collie and not a 'status' dog probably helped it too)

It's incredibly stupid to leave any dog tied up :( :(

"Sadly, people don't just steal dogs to sell, they steal them to torture/kill/use as bait for fighting dog etc"

I know :-( that is why when I thought this dog was still missing, I didn't want to speculate what might have happened to her :-(

Gosh, bit worrying that, I have been known to tie my hound to a tree and walk off and leave her in the days when her recall was really bad.  I was rarely out of site - much more frustrating for her to be able to see me eating something tasty or playing with another dog than for me just to disappear, and she would create enough fuss that I don't think anyone would want her!  Even so though, I am not that old and I remember being able to leave a dog outside while you went into a shop or whatever