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<DIV>Elizabeth writes about the pair of sisters who finally went home:</DIV>
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<DIV>"The moral of this story, I've learned, is to check with Petfinder, <BR>area animal control facilities, shelters, police, and vets first. <BR>Although the economic climate is such that many, many pets are being <BR>abandoned and dumped, there are some out there who really are <BR>honestly lost and have families who want to find them."</DIV>
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<DIV>Here in Utah, it is actually the law that you cannot "harbor a stray".</DIV>
<DIV>If you find an animal, you must turn it in to your local shelter, as that</DIV>
<DIV>is where the owner will be searching. You can, of course, tell the shelter</DIV>
<DIV>that if no one claims the dog, you will take it--but you have to give the</DIV>
<DIV>legal owner a chance to claim it. If we have someone who wants to turn</DIV>
<DIV>strays over to us, we have to advise them to take the dogs to their local </DIV>
<DIV>shelter, and then we contact the shelter to make sure they are picked up.</DIV>
<DIV>If not, then we can take them. Actually makes sense. Also, helps with </DIV>
<DIV>the "dognappers" who see a cute, maybe expensive, dog they want</DIV>
<DIV>in his own front yard or a neighbor's and decide to take him home. </DIV>
<DIV><BR>Marilyn Briggs <BR></DIV>
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