The following is a true story.  A man in Jacksonville, FL has two brown boxers.  A while back they escaped from their fenced-in back yard, started to roam around the neighborhood and A1A.  They were gone for hours.  Their owner searched all over and finally went to the local Humane Society and found his dogs.  He identified the two boxers as his.

He was told that he had to have proof that the dogs were his.  He produced a few pictures of him and the dogs that he posted on Facebook.  As far as the Humane Society was concerned they were ambivalent but finally relented and agreed to give him back his dogs.  However, his cost would be $290… per dog.  The man told the Humane Society that he could not afford that kind of money.  They told him the only alternative was to sign the dogs over to them.  The man thought about it for a few minutes and as he was thinking he saw a sign posted over the door advertising adoptions for $30.  He took a lot of time signing over his dogs and after completing the paperwork, walked out the door then immediately returned and said he said he wanted to adopt the two brown dogs he gave up.  They vehemently objected stating that the dogs were his.  He reminded them he gave up ownership by signing their paperwork and now wanted to adopt the two brown dogs.  They were forced to relent.  After a tree day waiting period, he got his dogs back.

The real beauty of all this is not only did he get his two dogs back for $30 each as opposed to $295, while in the Humane Society’s care they trimmed the dogs’ nails, spayed them and implanted an identification device.

Who says it’s only government that is quirky?