Oh What A Tangled Web We Weave . . . .

I'm sure you will recognize the incident, so I won't be naming any names here.

It seems a popular talk show host recently adopted a dog from a local shelter. After bringing the dog home, it turns out the dog and her cat could not get along. I suspect that is not uncommon.

Apparently this talk show host forgot that a paper had been signed agreeing that if the adoption did not work out, the dog would be returned to the shelter. In her forgetfulness, silly her, she must have thought that the dog actually belonged to her. Your typical average dog owner doesn't think twice about finding another home for a dog they can no longer keep. They just do it. It happens every day.

But this forgotten signed paper seems to have meant that the dog never really belonged to this talk show host at all. The dog seems to have been on permanent loan as long as the dog shall live - and small dogs live a long time! Any time the adoption did not work out, the dog was to go back to the shelter! Sheesh!

So the talk show host gave away a dog that wasn't hers to give, and the shelter - under false pretenses - took the dog from the new family. How the shelter people found out where the dog was I don't know. Apparently the police were called and, because of this forgotten signed paper, the police allowed the people from the shelter to remove the dog from the home of the new family.

Now everyone is in tears. The talk show host. The children in the new family. Even the shelter owner, who reportedly has been the recipient of, if you can believe this, death threats! To make matters worse, it seems that before anyone could be persuaded to take another look at the absurdity of this whole situation, the shelter put the dog into another home!

Now there can be no winners, only losers.