Pets that can be legally owned are considered personal property. Here’s how pet ownership works in the state of California: I explain the same thing in different words until the person I am speaking to comes to the realization that whatever “they” told them about pet ownership is not how it actually works. What follows is always a repetitive discussion. The amount is always in constants of three: 3 days, 3 weeks, 30 days, etc. It’s always “they.” Throughout the last couple of decades, I have yet to uncover the members of this secretive group that started the rumor – that finding a stray animal becomes your property, as long as you’ve had it for an increment of time. If I didn’t know better, I’d have sworn storm clouds were, in that moment, filling the horizon behind me. “Who told you that the dog becomes yours if you keep it for more than 30 days?” I already know the answer before I ask the question, but I ask anyway. I’ve had her for over 30 days,” the gentleman says after I identify the actual dog owner via an implanted microchip. “I’m not giving her up, she’s my dog now. By Jesse Boyce, Field Operations Manager/Humane Officer
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