The courts would say the dog is property if someone had accidentlly left the door opened and the dog ran into traffic and was killed.
Just pointing out how f'ed up the law can be when it comes to pets.
IMHO there would not have been any charges if he'd told the sherrif, or tried to hire some rescue (who evidently would not have gone) or maybe volunteers (which I guess would have worked).
Sad situation. I wonder how people would feel if he had had a huge funeral service for the dog he thought he had to leave behind to it's death to save a child? Or if he'd been grieving and is now rejoicing only to be told you can't have the dog back and by the way heres a huge fine?
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