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Help Me Get My Dog Back Law Enforcement Not Helping?

I thought I had lost my 3-year-old Boston Terrier 18 months ago. I put up posters talked to neighbors offered reward called the radio station.Never gave up.Then a week ago my daughter in-law found her at a house about ten miles from me, the lady's mother lives next door to me.She stopped and asked her about the dog and told her that she knows who the dog belongs to.The lady told her to leave, my daughter in-law called me. On the way to the house I called the sheriff who met me there, I brought pictures of my dog and shot record and told him that my dog is easy to idenfy because she is not muscular like the Boston Terrier breed she is very lean and slender and has a small stripe between her eyes.The dog was given to me so no sale papers and is not pure breed. She would not open the door to talk to law enforcement for three days, then she called the sheriff and said to talk to her lawyer, if they came back to her house, she would file harassment on them. Now they will not do anything.

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1. Is the dog licensed at all? Does it have a tracking chip? You might want to check with your vet to see if theres any chance they have some sort of DNA record for your dog. The court can order the dog's DNA tested.
2. If she's prepared to call a lawyer, you need to be too. I'm assuming you are in the US, so if the police aren't helping you with this, which surprises me, your best chance is to launch a civil lawsuit. Hopefully having a lawyer contact this person, if you are convinced this is your dog, will scare them enough into knowing you mean business and it won't need to go any further. If it does, you'll need to be able to prove that this dog is yours. I'm also assuming it wasn't microchipped. You could get your regular vet to make a statement of the dog's peculiarities and that it was you who brought it in for its vaccinations and check-ups on past occassions, not this other woman.