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Stolen Pets

by Stolen Pets on 28 November 2014 - 18:11

This is for Amy. A dog that was taken back to her breeder in Raalte because the owners could not give her enough attention due to some personal issues at the time. They thought the breeder could find a better home for Amy.but they agreed not to sell her right away but wait a few weeks so another familymember still could say goodbye to her or perhaps take her back if circumstances allowed it, because they loved Amy dearly and only want to do what's best for her. But instead the breeder inmediately gave Amy to her husband's nephew in Hollandscheveld. Amy's owners found out where she was and tried to take her back from there but it did not work out well. The only thing the owners could do was block her microchip.

Since then we have been looking for Amy all over the country, hope faded with time. Untill the owner had a phonecall from Houston that Amy had been found emaciated along the highway. The finder took her home, called the owners and took care of Amy very well. Today she had her Rabies vaccination. Amy is now waiting for her owner to be brought back home to the Netherlands and hopefully this will be before Christmas! The only problem is the costs of the trip. So we have started to collect money with our Foundation to help them pay for the trip We hope you will donate some too. It's via De Hereniging ("The Reunion"), an organization that helps to reunite stray pets with their searching owners via Social Media as Facebook and Twitter. Hope you, your company and/or and your networks can help us! The money is for the trip, the vet and for the man that takes care of Amy so well and made the miraculous phonecall to her owners. 

 

PLEASE DONATE HERE FOR THE RETURN OF AMY!

Thanks very much!

This is Amy in better times, unaware of what the future would bring her :

Amy unaware of what the future would bring her

This is how Amy was found along the highway in Houston Texas:

Amy's owner made this video today in which she expresse how much she want her Amy back:


by joanro on 28 November 2014 - 18:11

How did amy get to the USA? Surely she was not a stowaway, did some one in the USA buy her and lose her? Are they looking for her?
There's a gap here. Very confusing.

susie

by susie on 28 November 2014 - 19:11

My thoughts exactly...

When did this dog "vanish" and why have the original owners not been able to get the dog back from the "nephew" ?
Who was the last known official OWNER of this dog ( the original owners, the breeder, the nephew ) ?
Does this dog have a pedigree, and who is in possession of the ped?

This dog didn´t swim over the pond, someone paid for the dog and paid for the flight.

I don´t want to sound harsh, but this whole story is more than weird...


susie

by susie on 28 November 2014 - 19:11

At first I´d try to find the "American" owner ( just ask the breeder and/or the nephew ) otherwise you are calling for a law suit.


by gsdstudent on 28 November 2014 - 19:11

or we can just stop asking questions and send money, what could go wrong?


by hexe on 28 November 2014 - 20:11

gsdstudent, nothing wrong with asking questions, especially when being asked to part with one's hard-earned money...By the same token, search engines are our friends, and can answer a significant number of questions if put to use. I'm trying to be less cynical these days, and after some checking around I'm satisfied that the organization mentioned, "De Hereniging", is a legitimate non-profit lost & stolen pet recovery group based in the Netherlands. 

I've spent more money for far less compassionate reasons in my lifetime, and it's not an amount that is going to break me; it's a personal decision no one can make for anyone else, however.

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by joanro on 28 November 2014 - 20:11

How did the dog,amy, get to the US? Was she stolen and passport papers forged?

by joanro on 28 November 2014 - 23:11

Possible possible possible

by vk4gsd on 29 November 2014 - 00:11

most unusual situation, folks can not be blamed for having some scepticism.

by hexe on 29 November 2014 - 00:11

If it's a fraud, then they've sure gone to elaborate lengths for it--this dog's story was posted on the organization's Facebook page on December 18, 2013; the first link will take you to the photos page, and if you scroll down to the 2013 postings, you'll see Amy in the top row, second photo. Click on the picture to open the thread, and you'll see the start of the search for Amy. That first post includes an explanation by the owner of the dog--which is not a purebred, registered GSD but rather a Dutch Shepherd crossbred, so I expect the paperwork needed to sell her is less troublesome in that regard--as to how the dog became unaccounted for.

Given that the OP has never come on this site to post anything but notices regarding dogs that have been stolen from the Netherlands, Belgium or Germany, and has never asked for any other assistance until the group was faced with getting a dog back from the US, I admit that I'm more inclined to view them with less suspicion than if they were constantly posting here to ask for donations--but I still did make the effort to check things out, and the group didn't just spring up from the ground yesterday--they've got FB pages for each district/ village/etc. they work with, and all the ones I've viewed seem to be pretty busy with posts from local pet owners reporting their lost or stolen animals...and the pages also appear to follow up on them and provide updates [for better or worse] when they are made aware of anything.

Given that my Dutch is non-existant, I certainly had no idea that when the OP reference "Hollandscheveld" in his initial post about this dog, they were referring to the village where a 'dog trader' is located, but Google translate was helpful enough to provide this from the OP's post on their FB page on 11/26/14:

"The story as I have inherited it: The owners had her back to her breeder in Raalte with the intention that they would have a good home. There is asked to have just a few weeks wait to reinstate her because she still wanted to give someone the opportunity to say goodbye to her and make the decision be final. But the breeder Amy headed straight piped to the cousin of her husband in Hollandscheveld. The former owners were behind, scented danger and have tried to get her back there, but that failed. Is through the dog trader Hollandscheveld Amy so ended up in the USA ..."

So as I understand it, the owners of the dog were having some household issues that were preventing them from being able to give the dog a sufficient amount of time and attention, so they went to the breeder from whom they bought the dog and asked if that person would hold her for a short period of time as the family considered whether they were really going to surrender ownership of her or not, and to see if another member of their family could possibly take the dog instead of the breeder taking her back. For whatever reason, the breeder handed the dog off the the nephew of her husband, and that nephew seems to have taken the dog to the dog trader in the village of Hollandscheveld, which then led to the dog being sold to someone else and eventually ending up in the US. It's likely that no one will ever know the specifics of the movement of the dog once she was left at the breeder's kennel; the records for dogs imported into the US are of little interest to US Customs, the Dept. of Agriculture, the CDC, or whatever state the dog were to be bound for--we just don't pay that much attention to the dogs and cats that come into the country. Birds, sure, we're right on top of those, because they have to undergo a quarantine period, livestock, yep, but not dogs and cats.

I'm satisfied with the details; for those who aren't, no problem, and no shade thrown your way--just save your donation for the next animal in need whose situation hits all the right notes for your 'smell test', and don't worry about those who felt this one did measure up for them. No one person can help them all, and there will always be another dog in need...sadly, that's one thing of which we can all be sure.






 


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