Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch... Episode 217 (Audio)

Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch... Episode 217 (Audio)

From Meanwhile...Back at the Ranch by Meanwhile...Back at the Ranch

August 24, 2025 · 1h 15m · Episode 224

About this episode

The episode discusses the challenges of caring for stray animals and the legal complexities surrounding their ownership.

This is a problem that is happening more and more, we brought Emma in to join us for this podcast. The subject is strays that caring people find and pick up. They look for their owner, check for a microchip, post them on all the things, Ring, Next Door, local lost and found pages and zip….they get nothing, they find nobody. After several days of this they ask us if we will take them, here is where the bullcrap starts to hit the fan… If we start vetting them for what they need, vaccines, are their ears infected?, is their skin infected?. Are they Heartworm positive, are they hurt in some other way?. Then two weeks later boom here comes an owner that says “hey thats my dog”… We have researched the law here in Texas and discussed with at Collin County shelter and they said its all very gray, some say as soon you establish care they belong to you, some say 3 days and some say 5 and some say none at all. We have had this happen multiple times now, the scruffy dog that looked like Sweeps, the finder had that dog for 5 or 6 days, she was posted on all the social media pages, we all saw her multiple times. Then we took her in, had her for several days, took her to the vet, torn ACL and…

People in this episode

Guest: Emma

Topics covered

  • stray animals
  • pet ownership
  • animal care
  • veterinary issues
  • legal aspects of pet ownership

Keywords

  • strays
  • microchip
  • vet bills
  • Heartworm
  • animal rescue

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Collin County shelter

Places: Texas

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