Q: Could I take someone’s dog from their home? I have all the legal information on that dog to my name.
The dog is a neglected dog and my mother and I helped her, they won’t budge to give us the dog and we’ve taken her to the vet multiple times and have bought the proper needs a dog needs. They’ve not let us bring her to the vca for her spay surgery twice because ‘ they don’t wan to ‘ and we got really attached to this dog, could it be possible to just take her without their consent even tho my mother and I have all legal necessities on the dog?
A: No, you cannot. I'm not sure what you think "legal necessities" are. However, it is clear that you don't own the dog. You even refer to it as "someone else's". Paying for vet bills and buying food and toys (if those are the "proper needs" to which you refer) does not confer ownership. Even you acknowledge that your efforts were help, not ownership. Taking someone else's property is burglary, conversion, theft, trespassing. If you think that the dog is neglected, contact Animal Control. If it agrees, it will take the dog. You might be able to adopt it legally then.
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