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I still live at home, my family has split seventy different ways and I was raised with my step father as my real dad. Him and my mother got divorced a few years ago, and after graduating I stayed with him and have been in college for a while now.
I'm not sure where to start. We have four dogs. Marshall, my newest dog, the GSD. Hank, the beagle mix. Jerry & Jenny, two Dachshunds. I come home from spending Thanksgiving with my real father (whom my stepfather resents) and all of my dogs are gone, except for Jenny. I've located the other Dachshund, but I cannot find my Marshall and Hank. Marshall has his AKC transfer papers in my name, and his previous owners can vouch that's he 100% mine. Hank has adoption papers from the animal shelter in my name, and the animal control officers will prove that he's 100% mine.
My stepfather will not tell me where he has taken these dogs, and I cannot stop crying. I can't sleep, I feel helpess. I don't know what to do. I've talked to animal control, and they talked to him but he said he had given me a week to get rid of every dog?????????? I pay vet bills, I pay for food, I pay for everything for these animals, the only really responsibility he would ever have over these dogs is the land they live on which he's given me full permission to let these dogs live with me here. I'm only gone for 3 hours a day, in which the animals are usually kenneled and out of the way. I'm completely torn and he's holding it over my head as to where they are. He won't tell me, animal control says there's nothing I can do. My stepfather has alot of "push" around this county and the local authorities seem to worship him. We live in the middle of nowhere, and these country bumpkins don't seem to think this is a big deal.
I'm not sure where to start. We have four dogs. Marshall, my newest dog, the GSD. Hank, the beagle mix. Jerry & Jenny, two Dachshunds. I come home from spending Thanksgiving with my real father (whom my stepfather resents) and all of my dogs are gone, except for Jenny. I've located the other Dachshund, but I cannot find my Marshall and Hank. Marshall has his AKC transfer papers in my name, and his previous owners can vouch that's he 100% mine. Hank has adoption papers from the animal shelter in my name, and the animal control officers will prove that he's 100% mine.
My stepfather will not tell me where he has taken these dogs, and I cannot stop crying. I can't sleep, I feel helpess. I don't know what to do. I've talked to animal control, and they talked to him but he said he had given me a week to get rid of every dog?????????? I pay vet bills, I pay for food, I pay for everything for these animals, the only really responsibility he would ever have over these dogs is the land they live on which he's given me full permission to let these dogs live with me here. I'm only gone for 3 hours a day, in which the animals are usually kenneled and out of the way. I'm completely torn and he's holding it over my head as to where they are. He won't tell me, animal control says there's nothing I can do. My stepfather has alot of "push" around this county and the local authorities seem to worship him. We live in the middle of nowhere, and these country bumpkins don't seem to think this is a big deal.