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My dog is my best friend and has been for 7 years. If someone took him I would raise HELL to get him back. If I were in your position I would use any means possible to get him back. Once back in your home, make sure he has the proper ID on a tag, microchip or anything else secured on him so this doesn't happen again. Anyone that shoots a dog just for being on their property is a pretty big piece of sh*t, btw. I never understood why some property owners did that. There's a shooting instructor in Middle TN that I heard brags about shooting dogs that have gotten into his yard. Some people deserve a special place in hell.

I'm a huge dog lover and I have a passionate dislike for anyone that tries to scam people. If I feel that I'm wronged I don't hesitate to escalate through courts or other methods to get a fair resolution. And I hate to see any animals hurt, killed, chased, harassed, or mistreated in any way. In this case I think it comes down to the fact that your dog was running loose off your property, something you admit that he does often. Thus he was very likely off of your property when he was picked up. Whether he was picked up by a stranger or the dog pound doesn't really matter, it is against the law to let your dogs run loose, and it is entirely lawful for a loose dog to be detained or impounded. Now the question of ownership transfer gets a little complicated based on various factors, but in general if your dog was allowed to run loose and he was subsequently detained without any chip or collar to identify the owner, then a shelter or private person only has to wait a short time to see if an owner comes forward, and they generally only have to make a minimum attempt at advertising, and then if no owner comes forward to claim the dog it becomes their property. In the case of the dog pound or many shelters he would have been euthanized in just a few weeks, so you are very lucky that someone caught him and put him in a rescue shelter instead. If my dog had gone missing I would have immediately put signs up everywhere within a several mile area, contacted all of the nearby shelters and vets and neighbors, and checked back with them often until he was found. But then I never let my dog run loose, and he is microchipped, and he always has a collar on with multiple tags, he even has a special tag with his own email address and toll free hot line announcing a reward if found, so it's pretty unlikely that he would ever be missing to begin with. In your case I would have gone to get the dog immediately, taking off work or changing plans if needed, and gladly paid any fee or reward to whoever kept him alive. Even if they offered me a free return, I would have insisted on giving them a nice sum to compensate for their caring and feeding for the dog for so long. And then I would immediately take the dog to a vet for a full checkup, have him microchipped, get him a new collar with ID and rabies tags, and find a way to fence him in or secure him so he doesn't run loose in the future. The only way I could see you going on the offensive here would be if your dog was properly tagged, microchipped, and detained on your land but someone trespassed to steal your dog and deliberately kept him away from you. But you would need a lot of evidence to prove that, and it would be highly unlikely to occur. In any event I'm happy that you did find your dog, and I hope the return goes smoothly, and that you don't let him run loose again in the future.

You'd probably need to come see where i, and probably glowdotGlock live. We don't all live in a subdivision or apartment. My dog stays in the house most of the time, but goes out as he pleases. Most of my neighbors have dogs who aren't chained as well. It is very rural here, and we all know each other like family. I know every dog in our neighborhood, and all their names. I think our situation might be a bit different than what you're accustomed to.   My neighbors' dogs will occasionally come get mine. They'll all go swim in a pond, dig for moles, and wrestle and play about the place. Later, they'll all divide up and go home for a nap. Doesn't seem like a bad life to me.

I agree, pay the fee. Then have your dog microchipped.

A republican would have shot them instead of exchanging shots with them.

Here's my buddy. Been 6+ months. He's gonna have a big burger and a bonfire waiting on him Saturday night.

For $80, just pay it and don't even worry about it.  You will have your dog back and that is what matters.  I would pay multiple times that if my dog went missing, whether it was purposeful or not.   You don't have to like the guy, but at least your dog is alive.

So this guy stole your dog, and is now basically trying to sell it back to you.  If he admitted it was 800 feet from your property, it was likely from the top of your driveway.    EFFE that!   Get your hands on your dog and leave.  If he balks call the law and press charges against him and the rescue organization.   A person cannot just pick up random dogs, and sell them back for a profit!  Only the local animal shelter has the right to pick up dogs. Honestly, I would be tempted to show up with LE to pick up my dog aka my property.

Did your dog have tags with your contact info (or a microchip) when he was picked up? If so, wouldn't that be theft and possession of stolen property since he agreed it's your dog and admitted to taking him from near your home? Turning over the dog in exchange for you not pressing charges might seem like a pretty fair deal to him.   If you don't keep tags on him, then it would be a reasonable assumption on his part that your dog was a stray. He very well could be a dog lover who didn't want to see the poor guy out on his own. On the plus side, you haven't had to buy dog food for 6 months, so maybe that could factor in to the "re-homing fee"?

Does not sound on the up and up but most important in my mine would be to get my dog back and pay the fee and then go after them in court. Check with county, city and any one else to see if they are licensed to legally be a Rescue Center or are they just a dog scam outfit...............jmho

They didn't have a gun; it was a sammich. Under privileged teens carrying sammich’s are being shot at an alarming rate. It has got to stop!

i did not see Smith's speal about Ebola.  I did see the hosts of The View talking about it and how wonderful they thought he was.   Right off I figured he F'd up.

  Think so. If you get lucky, you might catch a special. The chips are very cheap so it's a high mark-up (worth it, even at that though)

From what I've seen from the "health care professionals" and our government "policies" so far I don't think there's a snowballs chance in hell of containing this crap. Hopefully someone will figure out a way but I don't see it.....yet.

I am truly glad you are getting your best friend back Glow but I would go the micro chip route if he runs loose any at all. After being living and eating at another location for 6 month dogs have this thing about sometimes going back home to familiar surroundings and if loose he may wind up in another county on his own this time.  He may decide the other place is home........Stranger things have happened......................jmho

The notion of letting a pet run loose is sometimes viewed as natural or traditional, especially around more rural areas. Some owners feel it is only right to let them have their freedom, and some folks enjoy having stray pets come to visit once in a while. These folks may have been raised in a culture that pets were only outside animals, not much different than birds or squirrels that you enjoy seeing and occasionally feed but otherwise don't do much about. Other folks have a romantic vision of their pets going out to play, making friends, visiting neighbors, communicating with other animals, and generally having a great time and then always finding their way home at the end of the day to rejoin their loving family after a fun day of adventure, similar to the crap that you see in the Disney movies. But the harsh reality is that a loose pet will usually just be searching for food or sex, or most often just looking for some loving attention from other animals or humans that are willing to pet and play with it. And if you leave a pet outside during rain or hot/cold weather then he is often just looking for better shelter.   So if you really care about your pet (and your neighbors and their pets) then you would never let your pet run loose at large. Doing so exposes them to many, many hazards including being hit by a car, attacked by other pets or predators, shot at when trespassing on other properties, poisoned by all manner of toxic things he might eat or drink, chased or tortured by kids or twisted people, pelted with rocks or BBs or whatever, exposed to ticks and fleas and other diseases, injured by crossing dangerous areas such as steep hills, broken glass, becoming permanently lost, getting picked up by Animal Control or adopted by someone else that sees him as homeless, etc. And it can also cause a lot of inconvenience for your neighbors if your pet harasses their livestock or pets, craps in their yard, barks at night, bites one of their kids or pets, etc.   Most pet owners who let their pets run loose are either ignorant of the facts above or they just don't care enough about the pets or their neighbors to do any different, and in my opinion these folks shouldn't have pets, which is why I fully support the legal capture of strays and placement in shelters where the pet will at least have a chance of being placed in a better home. Other pet owners aren't willing to go to the expense of properly tagging, chipping, and containing the pet to their properties, in which case I think they should only have inside pets that are only let out in a fenced area or on a run or leash.

Glad you are getting him back! 6 months is an awful long time. I'd say it's a miracle you found him!

My dog would have eaten more than $80 in food since then, so I'd probably pay it.

The rescue may not have a facility nearer to you. Most animal rescues have one building at most, and a lot depend on a network of volunteers to house animals in their homes. I doubt seriously people are running around stealing dogs to try and sell back to their owners. Most rescues I've been involved with spend far more money than they ever receive caring for animals that may never be adopted out.

I have mixed feeling about this. First, I agree that ANYONE that finds a dog running around should secure the dog if possible and try and find the owner. Some dogs are very street smart and avoid traffic and are very well behaved around wild animals and such but many are not. I feel its best to secure the dog as long as it can be done safely and its not on its own property than to let it run wild and either get run over or shot due to it chasing deer or cattle. Though I would not shoot a dog for it, just not in me, I know many will if they see them running game on their property. My neighbors dogs would bug the heck out of me by running around my property while I has on my stand, even confronting me in front of my small sleep trailer sometimes. I would just chase them away since I knew where they came from but would of not thought twice about shooting one if they charged me but I never seen them chasing anything and they have since been adopted out. I would just offer a "reward" (not his fee)to the guy for his trouble and let it go at that.

I also used to mainly carry a .380 - a Kel Tec P3AT - when pocket carry was the order of the day.  The thing is, I bought it brand new as a first generation but had it a few years before I got my HCP.  Once I got ready to carry, I could never get it to be reliable.  I sent it back to Kel Tec (where the customer service is awesome.)  By then the second generation was out and they pretty much built me a brand new, second gen pistol on my original frame.  It has been 100% reliable ever since and I actually shoot it pretty well but the whole experience - and reading others' experiences with various .380 pocket rockets - made me realize that even in .380 these small, lightweight pistols are riding the ragged edge for reliability and function.  That is why I would never even bother with such a small gun in 9mm.   Anyhow, I kept the P3AT but added a S&W 642.  I simply believe that - in such small packages in anything above .32acp - small, light revolvers are and likely will always be more reliable than small, light semiautos.  The 642 has become my most carried gun - usually in a pocket but sometimes OWB (as it still conceals easily.)  I replaced the factory grips with Pachmayr Compacs that cover the backstrap and give a little more to hold on to which made a world of difference it shootability and my accuracy with it.  I usually carry a speed strip in the watch pocket of my pants in case I have a need/opportunity for a reload.   The 642 has an internal hammer rather than a shrouded hammer.  That means it doesn't have the 'humpback' look of shrouded hammer versions but also means that it is DAO with no option for manually cocking the hammer.  For a revolver doing mostly pocket duty I think that is the way to go.  A model with a regular, non-shrouded hammer would be likely to snag, I would think, and I would also be concerned about the possibility of pocket lint and other debris getting into the gun through the channel that the hammer 'switch' rides in with a shrouded hammer version.  I've looked at a shrouded hammer version and think that it would be awkward to cock or decock under stress.  Besides, for up close SD you probably aren't going to be shooting in anything but double action, anyhow.   I would still advise that, if possible, you keep the little .380 around.  I find that there are occasions, although rare, where the thin/flat nature of the P3AT allows me to carry it in situations where the 642 wouldn't work as well or maybe not at all.

maybe sort of OT but please vote NO on wine in grocery stores.   Keep your dollars in TN.   Money spent at your local wine shop stays in the community.  Money spent at Wallys and Kroger as well as others goes out of state.

  I've never seen this issue (and this ballot question especially) as an either or proposal.  People can be against abortion on principal, but not wanting it to be decided by anybody except the person in that situation and lest of all by legislative decree.       Sort of...5019(c)(19) is the IRS designation for a Veteran's Organization that applies or gets tax exempt status.  This would just add them to the list of who can apply to the TN General Assembly and hope for a 2/3'rds vote allowing an annual event for their benefit.  This one is really just bookkeeping that has to be done by ballot vote since it involves changing a section of the TN Constitution.  If it was in the TCA, it would be a simple legislative vote and we would never have to be bothered with it.   I'll be voting for it.

  I still think Eugene will prove to be a fraud, just a line of BS he's used to get other people to protect him.   - OS

My method to understanding these Amendments is simple.   - If the Tennessean newspaper is for it....., I'm against it.  :down:   - If the Tennessean newspaper is against it......, I'm for it.  :up:     This personal voting guide based on the Tennessean's endorsements has been near 99&44/100% correct for me ever since the Nashville Banner ceased publication in 1998.  

Me and my family are spending a couple days in Atlanta. Went to the aquarium had my firearm concealed. To my surprise they where taking lighters , knives, and using metal detectors. So I asked security about my gun before I hiked back to the hotel where our in room safe is broken anyway. They escorted me to a secure location had a set of lock boxes in a room where you had to be buzzed in. Put my gun in and took the key. Treated me very well and same when I retrieved my gun. Not happy I couldn't take it in but I felt that it was safer there than my room.

if new it doesnt matter what its designated on the 4473,because at that point its not been assembled.all you have to do is assemble it as a pistol first then you can pretty much switch it back and forth between pistol rifle at will.if getting one used im not sure how they would go about it,but if it could be proven that it was assembled as a rifle first and you made it into a pistol then you would be in violation of something.

Don't you dare shoot above that line!! That's pretty loud, imagine how loud a 51 would be in there, it would probably set off their fire alarm...lol

From Lamar:   Yesterday, Senator Alexander called for restricted travel from Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone to the U.S. to help prevent the spread of Ebola. “Given the spread of Ebola in Dallas, the most sensible way to prevent the spread of Ebola in the United States is to restrict travel to the U.S. from Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone in West Africa to essential personnel, and to develop quarantine procedures for anyone from those countries arriving in the United States. These individuals should be monitored for symptoms for 21 days to make certain they are not infected with Ebola. In addition, I again urge the president, as I did last week, to designate immediately a single cabinet member to coordinate a more urgent Ebola response among all U.S. agencies involved and other countries that should be more involved. This crisis needs stronger leadership and a greater sense of urgency from the president."     Public opinion may force Obunghole to take this approach. Thank god there's an election coming to help drive his indecision.

  Total lies from that faction. Voters do not choose those judges now, haven't since 1971, so that's all based on hooey to begin with. Whether failure of the amendment to pass will actually lead to them being elected or not is debatable at the least.       Again, hooey from the antis. We haven't elected those judges since 1971. The only vote we have now is retention vote. This would not change if amendment is passed, retention vote still there.       No. Supreme and appellate judges have been appointed under the "Tennessee Plan", which is not by the Attorney General, but by Tennessee Judicial Selection Commission and then by the Judicial Nominating Commission, submitted to the governor, where he could yea or nay them.   That latter Commission is currently in limbo due to complicated rules regarding failure of review of said Commission.   http://judgepedia.org/Tennessee_Judicial_Nominating_Commission   I'm not sure what will eventually happen if amendment 2 fails. But if it succeeds, yes it will be similar to the federal procedure, except we will still have retention votes on them in the polls, same as the current procedure.   - OS

So the guy takes your property, that wasn't really lost.  Holds onto it for 6 months, all the while trying to sell it to the first respective buyer.   You catch wind due to your own efforts not the efforts of the rescue. And you are supposed to be thankful and pay him to get your own property back that never was really lost to begin with.    Why stop at dogs, how about all livestock, automobiles, and children...lost cell phones and wallets... If you lose your keys and I find them, can I turn around and sell your car?    Now I am very pro rescue.  3 of my dogs have been rescues, but they were owner surrenders or picked up from the local animal shelters by the rescues.    I know the polite thing is to be thankful, pay the $80 and live happily ever after.  And that's exactly what you should do.  But it just rubs me the wrong way to think someone can just pick up any random dog walking down the street and essentially sell it.

    Chronograph... :doh: .  Somehow chronometer didn't seem right, but I couldn't come up with chronograph at the time.  You'd have to be pretty darn quick to use a chronometer on bullets.  :rofl:

It's legal, but you are a good man for trying to be considerate of your neighbors. Life isn't fun living near pizzed off neighbors. Likely, they'll be considerate of you in return.   Probably your biggest concern will be ricochet, since Wilson county is one solid rock. :rofl:

I think Troutburger has a good point. I might even find out if I could get and off duty police officer to go with me in plain clothes if you know one. I still would have my focus on getting my dog back but still would do a follow up on the organization to see if they are operating legally and if not I would see about getting a refund. If you have the time you might want to do some checking before you even go to get your dog. Be prepared I guess is what I am saying.............jmho

I would think too that a rescue organization would check the lost pets sites and whatnot. I flooded the internet with ads for weeks after he went missing. With very thurough ads.

That is what I was thinking. I am going to have my phone camera recording in my front pocket.

I don't harbor any ill-will against people who use Crossbows when they are legal.   BUT I was behind some one the other day in line that was buying one. Salesman was showing him the lighted scope etc....   I don't think they should be legal except with a medical/disabled exemption like many states did in the past. It's a rifle that shoots short arrows.   But then again...I am hunting with a Longbow :)

Perhaps I shouldn't post at this hour... but am I the only person who thinks this sounds a bit... um... staged.     Nobody got shot.     It's about 2 weeks before an election.     They're democrats (maybe trying to prove that they're "pro-gun").   The story named the JUVENILES in an incident where no one was hurt.     And.  Ok, seriously...  One of them is named Bizzarro.  I'm not implying that it's not his real name, but it seems kind of appropriate.   "I'm so skeptible."

Maybe someone more tech-savvy than me can check this, but my sources say this draft was created in August of last year, shortly before the time the Proposed Regulations were published (Sept. 9, 2013). I suspect someone who knows how to do it could check the metadata of the PDF posted on the Fed website. But in any event, I know there has been a draft of this form since at least August of 2013.

That is a sweet sombrero!!!!!!!

The issue is from the top down in fast food places. Look at Chick-fil-a or In-a-out burger where from the very top they stress good customer service. But both places seem to hire a better class of people too.

Wow, first problem ever reported from ProMag magazines. ;)   - OS

Very unusual weather for October.... Check this data out:  http://www.weather.com/weather/wxclimatology/monthly/graph/USTN0268   Generally, October is very dry....   leroy

Oh, I didn't even think about this. Better check with my sister and aunt to make sure they don't have it. They almost got mad cow, SARS, swine flu, bird flu and anthrax. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Wowser, that really delivered IMO!   That first scene at the killing trough was as freaking chilling as anything I've ever seen on the whole series!   - OS

Direct sunlight will kill it. Kinda like Nancy Pelosi. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

You need to ask yourself...do you really need the Walmart website this bad?  :D

Lol. Now you've gone and ruined everything with the possibility of a reasonable explanation.

This pc crap is getting very old. I was hoping Popeye would got the other way and get more badass with age

  I think it is the difference between it being possible that one will need to defend oneself (which could happen anywhere at any time) and being likely that one will need to defend oneself.